In the previous post I made a plot of Antarctica and compared it to the size of Europe. I made the throwaway point that it was unreasonable to imagine Antarctica as being characterized with one climatic zone. It is not all the “coldest and windiest place” on Earth. I thought a simple example would show […]
This is a storified version of Gavin Schmidt’s talk on composition & CH4 feedbacks from Arctic sea ice loss with background information. It was formed from the twitter stream #RSarctic14 from a Royal Society discussion meeting I co-organised
— UPDATED 11 June 2014 — This post got the dreaded TL; DR on Reddit – but at least “they” acknowledged it was useful. Since it takes someone else to pick out the value in your work I offer this tweet from Jason Major. – ORIGINAL POST A significant area of Antarctic glaciological interest is […]
— UPDATED 11 June 2014 — This post got the dreaded TL; DR on Reddit – but at least “they” acknowledged it was useful. Since it takes someone else to pick out the value in your work I offer this tweet from Jason Major. – ORIGINAL POST A significant area of Antarctic glaciological interest is […]
— UPDATED 11 June 2014 — This post got the dreaded TL; DR on Reddit – but at least “they” acknowledged it was useful. Since it takes someone else to pick out the value in your work I offer this tweet from Jason Major. – ORIGINAL POST A significant area of Antarctic glaciological interest is […]
Mark Brandon • July 30, 2015 Yet more beautiful MODIS imagery showing some wonderful patterns in a plankton bloom in the Barents Sea. Plankton patterns in the Barents Sea The screen grab is from the 250m resolution imagery, and the whole arctic panel shows just where the bloom is located. The Arctic on 29 July […]
The MODIS sensor satellite imagery is showing a beautiful and evolving large plankton bloom in the Chukchi Sea at the moment. Plankton bloom in the Chukchi Sea, as seen in the MODIS sensor on 23 June 2015. Alaska is on the LEFT and Russia the RIGHT. The image is looking SOUTH. The plankton are the […]
I very much like looking at the AQUA and TERRA MODIS sensor images every now and then. Today I saw this beautiful image off the southern tip of Greenland which was captured on 23rd February 2015. Sea ice off Cape Farewell, Greenland What you are looking at are three different white things: snow on Greenland, […]
As a marine scientist I have always had an obsession with the sea and what it is doing. You can see that by looking at the photos section of this site, or my flickr stream. A couple of weeks ago Dr Ian Brooks (Leeds) tweeted to a colleague, a movie clip of a ship in […]
I came across this brilliant Deep Sea News blog post about oil on troubled waters. It talks at length about how a surface film of oil damps out higher frequency surface waves and only the low frequency waves can propagate. The net effect is the sea feels calmer as the breaking waves are damped out. […]
I came across this brilliant Deep Sea News blog post about oil on troubled waters. It talks at length about how a surface film of oil damps out higher frequency surface waves and only the low frequency waves can propagate. The net effect is the sea feels calmer as the breaking waves are damped out. […]
Professor Seymour Laxon in Hobart Tasmania I heard today that the UCL Prof Seymour Laxon has died in an accident over the new year. I don’t know the details and to be honest, to me, the “how” is not really that important (*). Only the loss. Seymour was the Director of the Centre for Polar […]
Professor Seymour Laxon in Hobart Tasmania I heard today that the UCL Prof Seymour Laxon has died in an accident over the new year. I don’t know the details and to be honest, to me, the “how” is not really that important (*). Only the loss. Seymour was the Director of the Centre for Polar […]
Professor Seymour Laxon in Hobart Tasmania I heard today that the UCL Prof Seymour Laxon has died in an accident over the new year. I don’t know the details and to be honest, to me, the “how” is not really that important (*). Only the loss. Seymour was the Director of the Centre for Polar […]