The weather stations that monitor climate change are at risk
Civil war and other conflicts are costing us valuable data. See full article
[more]Civil war and other conflicts are costing us valuable data. See full article
[more]This spring, the Citrin Family GIS/Applied Spatial Analysis Lab is expanding into Virtual Reality. With support from the Neukom CompX program, Citrin Lab director Jonathan Chipman is developing new technology for advanced “immersive 3D” data visualization, allowing users to explore and interact with massive 3D models of landscapes and other large spatial datasets.
[more]As Justin Mankin, Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, USA, notes “On the one hand, snow is simple — you heat it up, it melts”. Full article
[more]Climate science tells us that in the future, combinations of heat and humidity could be so extreme that the evaporation of human sweat may not sufficiently cool our bodies.
[more]In 1996, the Northeastern U.S saw a sudden increase in the number of "extreme precipitation" events. And ever since then, that number has stayed elevated. Full story
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