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Category Archives: climate
A Million Points of Data
Watching and reporting the flowering of a nearby vine maple, Acer circinatum, turned into the millionth observation submitted through NPN’s online observation program, Nature’s Notebook. Lucille Tower, an amateur scientist from Portland, Ore. submitted the record.
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VLF Radio Astronomy
Flares such as the ones seen recently could become the norm soon, though, as our sun’s 11-year cycle of magnetic activity ramps up, scientists explained. The sun is just coming out of a lull, and scientists expect the next peak of activity in 2013. The current cycle, called Solar Cycle 24, began in 2008. Continue reading
Placing the 2011 Texas Drought in Perspective
As for the temperature of Texas, regular records were begun in 1895. A linear fit to the data available from NOAA show that the average annual temperature of the State increased a statistically insignificant 0.046 degree from 1895 to 2011, which includes last year’s drought. Continue reading
Posted in climate, Instrumentation, Meteorology
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Thoreau’s Notebooks Shed Light on Changing Climate
Most of the raw data that Thoreau collected has remained unpublished until very recently, when a team of scientists, biology professor at Boston University, and fellow researcher Abraham Miller-Rushing went looking for historical climatological data. Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, Botany, climate, History of Science, Phenology
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This Week at Hilton Pond: “Winter Hummingbirds In The U.S. (Ruby-throats & Global Warming)”
In mid-January we took a long drive from York SC to North Carolina’s Outer Banks where we encountered quite a few winter hummers. However, these weren’t Rufous Hummingbirds or other “western vagrants” folks have come to expect these days in the eastern U.S. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, climate, Ornithology, Photography, This Week at Hilton Pond
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Citizen Scientists Wrap Up Major Climate-Impact Survey
The volunteers have measured more than 150,000 trees, equivalent to 60 years’ work for one scientist. Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Biology, Botany, climate, Environment
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New Berkeley Study Confirms Global Warming
In what is perhaps the most comprehensive study yet of recent planetary climate trends, taking into account questions raised by some climate scientists, including amateur scientists. The Berkeley Earth study concluded that there has in fact been a rise in temperature globally of 1°C since the 1950s. Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, Breaking News, climate, Environment, Meteorology
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Getting Inside a Tropical Cyclone
“Tropical cyclone” is the technical term we use for very large, rotating storms with high winds, lots of rain, and accompanied by a storm surge. In the Atlantic ocean and Eastern Pacific, including Hawaii we call them hurricanes. Continue reading
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Improving the Presentation and Reliability of OMI Ozone Retrievals
Since 1990 I have been comparing my ground-based measurements of total ozone, total water vapor and aerosol optical depth (AOD) with a series of both NASA and NOAA space-based instruments. Continue reading
Posted in Amateur Science, climate, Environment, Meteorology
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Citizen Science Musings: Very Big Science Projects
Up until Biosphere 2, there had never been any biosphere in the known universe, except for Earth” … After the project’s completion, “all of a sudden everybody was very conversant with the idea of a biosphere, and now it’s a common word. Continue reading
Posted in Biology, climate, Environment, General Interest, Projects
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