Monthly Archives: February 2007
Unlicensed Engineers, Part 1 By Hendrik Tennekes
Unlicensed Engineers, Part 1 By Hendrik Tennekes In the series of Weblogs I am now starting, I will lay the foundations for a theory of climate software development. I am of the opinion that most scientists engaged in the design, … Continue reading
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Forecast Skill Of Season-to-Interannual Climate Prediction
There is an interesting and informative article in the Fall 2006 issue of U.S. CLIVAR Variations. CLIVAR is the acronym for “U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability” program. The article is “Practices for Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Prediction” by Lisa Goddard and Martin … Continue reading
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Direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over east Asia
Another very good article has appeared which documents the very significant role of aerosols on regional climate (and thus through teleconnections on the global climate system) [and thanks for Dev Niyogi for alerting us of it!].The new paper is Huang, … Continue reading
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A New Approach To Weather and Climate Modeling
A new parameterization concept has been published in the February 20, 2007 edition of EOS [the significance of this concept was also discussed on Climate Science on November 1, 2006]. The article is Pielke Sr., R.A., D. Stokowski, J.-W. Wang, … Continue reading
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Weblog Is Back Up After A Major Power Outage
If you are a regular reader of Climate Science, you know that the weblog was offline for two days. This was due to a major power outage where our computers are located. We are making plans to install a backup … Continue reading
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A New Quote On Regional Climate Predictability
One of the conclusions on Climate Science is that there is no predictive skill in multi-decadal regional climate predictions (see #6). Evidence for such a conclusion, for example, have been summarized in a number of weblogs (e.g. see, and see). … Continue reading
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Comment on The Major Role Of Land Cover/Land Use Change Within The Global Climate System – Another Ignored Issue in the 2007 IPCC Statement For Policymakers
In answer to a question from a reporter on the importance of land cover/land use change within the climate system, I wrote the response below, which briefly overviews why this climate forcing is so important. The lack of including an … Continue reading
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Book Available “Contributions of Agriculture to the State of Climate”
This book offer was announced this past evening at the Virtual Discussion Forum: Climate Impacts of Human-Induced Land Use. Book Offer: Free copies of an upcoming book based on papers presented at the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) Expert … Continue reading
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Surface temperature patterns in complex terrain: daily variations and long-term change in the central Sierra Nevada,
An important new paper that further documents the difficulty of monitoring multi-decadal surface air temperature trends has been accepted. It is Lundquist, J. D. and D. R. Cayan, 2007. Surface temperature patterns in complex terrain: daily variations and long-term change … Continue reading
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Several Science Errors (Or, At Best Cherrypicking) In the 2007 IPCC Statement For Policymakers
In even an overview of the section in the 2007 IPCC Statement For Policymakers on “Direct Observations of Recent Climate Change” there are errors, or at best selective information, in their findings. I am summarizing four on this weblog: 1. … Continue reading
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