Monthly Archives: July 2007
New Research Paper On Landscape History In the Eastern Half Of The United States
A truly exceptional research paper is in press for the Journal of Geophysical Research. It is Steyaert, L. T., and R. G. Knox (2007), Reconstructed Historical Land Cover and Biophysical Parameters for Studies of Land-Atmosphere Interactions within the Eastern United … Continue reading
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Powerpoint Presentations From The 2007 Pittsburgh Tripartite Symposium — Realities And Challenges Of Global Warming/Global Dimming
I was invited by Manny Miller (thanks Manny!) who was the coordinator to an excellent set of presentation at the April 23, 2007 Tripartite Symposium — Realities And Challenges Of Global Warming/Global Dimming held in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. The meeting was … Continue reading
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Comments On The Second Web Posting By Kevin Trenberth on “Climate Feedback – The Climate Change Blog”
Kevin Trenberth has followed up his weblog on the Nature site Climate Feedback – The Climate Change Blog entitled âPredictions of climate” with a weblog on the subject of climate prediction. This new posting is entitled Global Warming and Forecasts … Continue reading
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New Paper On The Biogeochemical Forcing of Elevated CO2
Thanks to Sallie Sprague for alerting me (through an Long Term Ecological Research – LTER project I am on) to an interesting new paper that has been published in the April 2007 issue of New Phytologist. The article is William … Continue reading
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The GLORIA Program – Monitoring High Altitude Vegetation
Michael Gottfried alerted me to a very important climate monitoring program in which high altitude vegeation is monitored for its long term changes (such as movement of plant species up or down slope. This type of monitoring complements the phenology … Continue reading
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Article On The Documentation Of Uncertainties And Biases Associated With Surface Temperature Measurement Sites For Climate Change Assessment” Has Been Published
Pielke Sr., R.A. J. Nielsen-Gammon, C. Davey, J. Angel, O. Bliss, M. Cai, N. Doesken, S. Fall, D. Niyogi, K. Gallo, R. Hale, K.G. Hubbard, X. Lin, H. Li, and S. Raman, 2007: Documentation of uncertainties and biases associated with … Continue reading
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Comment On Why Climate Science Is Presenting Evidence Of Glacier Advance or Near-Stationary Positions In Some Areas
The question has been raised as to why Climate Science is seeking evidence for regions without glacier retreat. It has already been mentioned that the impression that glaciers are retreating almost everywhere worldwide has been expressed in media reports (e.g. … Continue reading
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Climate Science Back On-Line
After two days, Climate Science is back on line. Thank you for all of the e-mails asking why it was offline. We have had a long term chronic problem with our connection in the original location of the server for … Continue reading
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Documentation Of IPCC WG1 Bias by Roger A. Pielke Sr. and Dallas Staley – Part II
Among the findings of the 2005 National Research Council report Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties are I. “Determine the Importance of Regional Variation in Radiative Forcing Regional variations in radiative forcing may have important … Continue reading
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Another New Paper On The First-Order Climate Forcing Of Land Surface Processes
An excellent new paper has appeared that provides further evidence on the important role of land surface processes within the climate system; it is Lawrence, P. J., and T. N. Chase (2007), Representing a new MODIS consistent land surface in … Continue reading
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