Drought Simulation with Rainfall Exclusion Experiments
The CASCADE European Project strives to investigate such approaches and to fill knowledge gaps through a series of multi-scale experiments and integrated soil-water-plant modeling. At plant level, experiments include the…
Climate Change Soon at your Favorite Vacation Spot
2023 is now just 9 years away, and that is the year scientists predict that Jamaica will be an unfamiliar place for its inhabitants and visitors, a place with a…
Flood Risk Increased due to Urbanization not Climate
A group of researchers lead by Zbigniew Kundzewicz recently published a paper concludes that the increase of population density is a far greater driver for floods frequency increase than climate…
Modelling your Sleep Quality
The University of Manchester in association with The Fine Bedding Company have derived an equation that estimates Sleep Quality. The formula scores the person’s sleep quality from ‘great’ to ‘tossing…
BBQ Stake aka heat diffusion through protein over time
MIT students developed this great cooking meat animation for the 2013 edX Science and Cooking course. It demonstrates the heat diffusion through meat over time. This heat diffusion is calculated…
Water risk as world warms
Researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber’s group published reports that suggest that even modest climate change might drastically affect the living conditions of billions of people, whether through water scarcity, crop shortages…
Information is beautiful: global weather conditions
Cameron Beccario presents a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers, updated every three hours. Weather Data is derived from NCEP / US National Weather Service / NOAA Global…
Offshore fresh groundwater resources emerging
The flow of terrestrial groundwater to the sea is an important natural component of the hydrological cycle. This process, however, does not explain the large volumes of low-salinity groundwater that…
Coastal Cities at Highest Risk of Damaging Floods
Coastal defenses reduce the risk of floods today, but they also attract population and assets in protected areas and thus put them at risk in case of the defense fails,…
NOAA & NASA conclude November 2013 is the warmest on record
An astonishing warm spell over Russia, up to 14 degrees F above normal, helped Earth achieve its warmest November on record. Global temperatures were 1.4 degrees F above the 20th…