Tag: Climate
Researchers from the Earth Institute’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions will present their work at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco this week. Psychology doctoral candidate Katherine Thompson will present a poster entitled “The Psychology of Hazard Risk Perception”; and visiting research scholar Diana Reckien will present a poster entitled “Realities of Weather Extremes on Daily Life in Urban India—How Quantified Impacts Infer Sensible Adaptation Options.”
Category> Climate, Natural Disasters, Urbanization
Tags> American Geophysical Union, american geophysical union 2012, Climate, CRED, India, natural hazards, psychology, Weather
In this Q&A, Arthur M. Greene discusses improving climate and agricultural modeling in South America using a new stochastic simulation of future climate.
Category> Agriculture-Food, Climate
Tags> agriculture, American Geophysical Union, american geophysical union 2012, Climate, climate models, forecast, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, IRI, IRI@AGU, modeling, South America
Public health professionals are increasingly concerned about the impact climate variability and change can have on infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and bacterial meningitis. However, in order to study the relationships between climate and …
Category> Climate, Global Health, Poverty / Economic Development
Tags> Africa, American Geophysical Union, american geophysical union 2012, Climate, Climate and Health, forecast, health, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, IRI, IRI@AGU, malaria, satellites
Sandy instantly brought a new kind of national media attention to the influence of global warming on weather disasters. After several years of near-silence on climate from our political leaders and the mainstream media, the renewed attention is profoundly welcome.
Category> Climate, Earth Sciences, Natural Disasters
Tags> cities, Climate, climate change, Climate Policy, Climate Science, Hurricane Sandy, hurricanes, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York metro area
1500 feet above the ground surface is where our suite of instruments normally operates, but for this flight we are taking them up higher, much higher, in fact over 20 times our normal range to 33,000 feet. Our flight plan is to repeat lines surveyed in a previous years by NASA’s Land, Vegetation Ice Sensor [...]
Category> Earth Sciences, General Earth Institute
Tags> Antarctica, Climate, climate change, Ice Bridge, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Today was a much longer climb up Imbabura, passing through more páramo until reaching our first Polylepis trees. Conveniently, they were marked by a little wooden sign. These are the trees that I hope to sample next week on Chimborazo.
Category> Earth Sciences, General Earth Institute, Water
Tags> Climate, education, lamont doherty earth observatory, Vanishing Tropical Glaciers
Named after Edith Ronne, the first American woman to set foot on this southern continent, the Ronne Ice Shelf is tucked just to the East of the Antarctic Peninsula on the backside of the Transantarctic Mountains. With an area measured at 422,000 square kms, this is the second largest ice shelf in Antarctica. This vast [...]
Category> Earth Sciences
Tags> Antarctica, Climate, climate change, Ice Bridge, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
I am staying with a friend’s family in Quito, Ecuador’s capital city, and tomorrow will meet up with my climbing partner, Pablo Puruncajas, to prepare for our expedition. I am here to collect tree ring samples and put up a weather station on Chimborazo, Ecuador’s tallest peak, to provide climate data about this region, which relies heavily on Chimborazo’s glaciers for water.
Category> Climate, Earth Sciences, General Earth Institute, Water
Tags> Climate, education, Environment, lamont doherty earth observatory, Vanishing Tropical Glaciers, Water Scarcity
For much of the last decade, Klaus Jacob warned of New York’s vulnerability to severe flooding in a major storm. Four days after the storm that crippled New York and New Jersey and swamped his own home along the Hudson River, Jacob reflected on Sandy’s lessons and what comes next.
Category> Climate, Earth Sciences, General Earth Institute, Natural Disasters
Tags> Climate, climate adaptation, Climate Policy, Global Warming, Hurricane Sandy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, urban infrastructure
(Updated Wednesday, March 6, 2013) Before Hurricane Sandy, scientists at The Earth Institute were at the forefront of studying the dangers posed by such storms, especially in the New York City area, where they are based. Among their specialties: the physics of storms and storm prediction; impacts of climate on weather and sea level; [...]
Category> Climate, General Earth Institute, Natural Disasters
Tags> Climate, Hurricane Sandy, hurricanes, Infrastructure, Media Advisories, MPA in Environmental Science and Policy News, urban climate change crossroads, urban planning
