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[Green Car Congress] Green Car Congress: MIT and Caltech Study Finds Climate Change ...: The magnitude of these extreme events was the subject of the new research, which will appear online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of 17 Aug. The report was written by Paul O’Gorman, assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, and Tapio Schneider, professor of environmental science and engineering at Caltech.

[Breaking News] Climate change to yield more extreme rainfall in future: According to Richard Allan, a senior research fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre at Reading University in Britain, “O’Gorman’s analysis is an important step in understanding the physical basis for future increases in the most intense rainfall projected by climate models.”

[POSTECH Library Blog] POSTECH Library Blog - Caltech 스트리밍 동영상 무료 강좌: In a Watson Lecture, JPL's Richard Zurek, a project scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, presented detailed images of the red planet's atmosphere, surface, and subsurface, and discussed how missions to Mars have changed our understanding of the planet's climate and history. Starting with the 1996 launches of Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor, a diverse range of spacecraft have been placed in Mars's orbit or landed on its surface, including the still-operating Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance orbiters, the Mars Exploration Rovers, and Europe's Mars Express orbiter.

[independent.com stories] The Santa Barbara Independent New Study Predicts Greater Sea-Level ...: The group obtained the same temperature rise estimate”‰”””‰three degrees Celsius”‰”””‰for the next century found by the IPCC, but concluded that the IPCC’s sea-rise projection was inconsistent with paleoclimatic data and observations of the current rate of ice sheet melt. According to Lea, paleoclimatic records point to a more dramatic increase of global temperatures at the poles, leading to accelerated melting of the ice sheets.

[Global Warming Issues] New Explanation For Monsoon Development Proposed: Bordoni was a Moore Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech and will return to Caltech as an assistant professor in 2009. Monsoons arise instead because of an interaction between the tropical circulation and large-scale turbulent eddies .

[Comments for Climate Audit] Carnage « Climate Audit: Just pointing to routines on Tapio Schneider's Caltech site, as at present, does not tell us how Steig et al employed those routines to obtain their results. Is this supposed to be Climate Science, or Climate Faith?

[Breaking News] Global warming may lead to heavier rainstorms in future: Separate projections published earlier this year by MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change indicate that without rapid and massive policy changes, there is a median probability of global surface warming of 5.2 degrees Celsius by 2100, with a 90 percent probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees.

[Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] MIT study: Heavier rainstorms ahead | Science Blog: Richard Allan, a senior research fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre at Reading University in Britain, says, "O'Gorman's analysis is an important step in understanding the physical basis for future increases in the most intense rainfall projected by climate models." He adds, however, that "more work is required in reconciling these simulations with observed changes in extreme rainfall events." The basic underlying reason for the projected increase in precipitation is that warmer air can hold more water vapor. So as the climate heats up, "there will be more vapor in the atmosphere, which will lead to an increase in precipitation extremes," O'Gorman says.

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