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29 December 2007

Best Science Books of the Year

I have read some great books on science this year and I want to share them with you. If you saw my Quick Science report on Sunday morning, then these are the books I was talking about. Two of them are by one author: Kerry A. Emanuel, Ph.D. Doctor Emanuel is a professor of Atmospheric Science at what is arguably the best engineering school in the world. MIT in Boston. …

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19 December 2007

Two Really Neat Pictures

I have received two really neat pictures illustrating atmospheric phenomena this week. One is local from Ralph Koepsel of Ider. The other was taken from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. The first shot was taken Tuesday afternoon and is a great image of Snow Virga falling from high based clouds over Dekalb County. The snow evaporated long before it reached the ground, but it was clearly visible from below. …

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17 December 2007

2007 Global Temperature 5th Warmest on record

Here is a press release from NOAA that you may find interesting. Yet another year of unusually warm weather in the USA and worldwide. NOAA: 2007 a Top Ten Warm Year for U.S. and Globe The year 2007 is on pace to become one of the 10 warmest years for the contiguous U.S., since national records began in 1895, according to preliminary data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in …

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12 December 2007

New Study on Arctic Sea Ice

I talked a lot about the disappearing Arctic ice pack in the North of 60 special. When we put it together, there was talk of the summer ice disappearing by the middle part of this century! This is well ahead of even the most aggressive climate models a few years ago. This week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in California there was a stunning presentation about the ice. Professor …

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5 December 2007

Goes 12 Dies an Early Death

If you look at satellite images on TV or online then you are most likely looking at images from GOES 12. On the West Coast another GOES provides coverage of storms from Hawaii to as far East as Oklahoma. Just before the 10 PM weathercast last night, I noticed that my satellite imagery was not updating. I suspected there was a hardware failure, or our down link dish was misaligned. …

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