Climate Physics

Weather References

Dr. Ed — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:48:21 +0000

1. Aviation Weather Services

6. NOAA/NWS Weather and Climate Toolkit

7. GR2 Analyst Software

7B. GR2 Software Description PPT Slides.

8. Google Earth

9. “Universal Rawinsdonde Observation program 6.0” (RAOB 6.0)

12. Radar Handbook

13. Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 7, “Weather Radar Observations Part B” 1981 2005 , 2009.

14. WSR-88D Radar List, NWS Headquarters, 2009.

15. “The Downburst – Microburst and Macroburst”, T.T. Fujita, Univ. Chicago, 1985.

16. “Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes – Volume I & II”, H. B. Bluestein, 1993. Amazon, Alibris, Chegg, Oxford.

17. “Forecasting Dry Microburst Potential [...]

CO2 Perspective

Dr. Ed — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:44:48 +0000

Water Vapor Is Earth’s Predominant Greenhouse Gas Man-Made Carbon Dioxide Has Negligible Impact On Earth’s Temperature The 10,000 symbols represent the proportion of all greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere.

Data Source: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Water Vapor…9500 Green Droplets 95%*

Carbon Dioxide (CO2): 3.6%*

Naturally Occurring CO2…348 Gray Dots 3.48%* Man Made CO2………………..12 Black Dots 0.12%*

Nitrous Oxide, Methane, Misc… 140 Yellow Dots 1.4%*

*Percentage Of Earth’s Total Greenhouse Envelope

Naturally occurring water vapor is earth’s predominant greenhouse gas, beneficially retaining the sun’s [...]

Weinstein: Disproving The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Problem

Dr. Ed — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:20:55 +0000

by Leonard Weinstein, ScD, April 25, 2009, Google

A hypothesis has been proposed that human activity over about the last 150 years has caused a significant rise in Earth’s average temperature.

The mechanism claimed is based on an increased greenhouse effect caused by anthropogenic increases in CO2 from burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, cement manufacture, and also from increases in CH4 from farm animals and other causes.

The present versions of the hypothesis also include a positive feedback [...]

Singer: Nature – not Human Activity – Rules the Climate

Dr. Ed — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:43:12 +0000

By S. Fred Singer, University of Virginia and SEPP (Presented at Erice Conference, Aug 2010)

Summary

Santer and sixteen coauthors [2008; hereafter S08] claim that observed temperature trends (in the tropical troposphere) are “consistent” with trends derived from General Circulation Models (GCM). This result, if correct, would seem to support the validity of greenhouse (GH) models — and thus the claim of substantial anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

However, their result disagrees not only with an earlier analysis [Douglass et al 2007], but also with [...]

CO2 Science: The Recent Wasting Away of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Dr. Ed — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:22:24 +0000

The Recent Wasting Away of the Greenland Ice Sheet

by CO2 Science

Reference

Wake, L.M., Huybrechts, P., Box, J.E., Hanna, E., Janssens, I. and Milne, G.A. 2009. Surface mass-balance changes of the Greenland ice sheet since 1866. Annals of Glaciology 50: 176-184.

Background The authors write that the large mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet over the last decade for which they had data (1995-2005) has caused the impression that “the ice sheet has been behaving [...]

NASA: Thermal expansion of sea water associated with global warming

Dr. Ed — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:15:04 +0000

by T.M. L. Wigley*+ & S.C.B. Rapert, NASA

The relationship between greenhouse-gas forcing, global mean temperature change and sea-level rise due to thermal expansion of the oceans is investigated using upwelling-diffusion and pure diffusion models. The sensitivities of sea-level to short-time scale forcing and deep-water formation rate changes are examined. The greenhouse-gas-induced thermal expansion contribution to sea-level rise between 1880 and 1985 is estimated at 2-5 cm. Projections are made to the year 2025 for different forcing scenarios. For the period [...]

NASA: Tropical “Hot Towers” And Hurricane Intensification

Dr. Ed — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:06:12 +0000

Background (from NASA)

Hurricanes (in the Atlantic) or typhoons (in the Pacific) are Earth’s strongest cyclones. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when sustained wind speeds reach 64 knots (74 mph). Accurate predictions of their tracks and intensities can save lives and minimize property loss. While hurricane tracks can be predicted with fairly good accuracy, the prediction of hurricane intensity remained a challenge to operational forecasting. This page is based on the article by Kelley and Stout (2004).

Condensational heating associated [...]

Bidinotto: Ozone Depletion

Dr. Ed — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:14:01 +0000

by Robert J. Bidinotto, 1994, Redbarn

Ozone and Objectivity

Is our stratospheric ozone layer under attack by chlorine coming from man-made CFCs?

Paul Robinson’s posting of March 24 on the subject of ozone depletion and CFCs is correct in its skeptical answer, but very wrong in how he arrives at that answer. I am concerned that, in a hasty effort to repudiate radical environmentalists, too many of “us” (following the lead of the late Dixy Lee Ray, Rush Limbaugh and others) are becoming [...]

The Carbon Cycle and Royal Society Math

Dr. Ed — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:31:25 +0000

By Dr. Klaus L.E. Kaiser Wednesday, October 13, 2010, CFP

The recent “rebellion” by senior members of the Royal Society (RS) forced it to revise their guide “Climate change: a summary of the science”. The new guide, published on 30 September 2010, has a single paragraph under the heading The Carbon Cycle and Climate. In that, it says:

“Current understanding indicates that even if there was a complete cessation of emissions of CO2 today from human activity, it would [...]

Steward: Earth’s atmosphere needs more carbon dioxide

Dr. Ed — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:29:02 +0000

by Leighton Steward

Reprinted from Montana Petroleum Report

SHOCKING? YES! TRUE? ALSO YES!

“But CO2 is a major cause of climate change.” “Yes” say the climate modelers. “No” say thousands of scientists – and “No” indicates the empirical evidence.

Exercise your objective, unbiased logic, forget that all things humans do is bad for the planet (even though most are), and let’s examine these subjects.

Carbon dioxide, as we learned in elementary school, is what plants “eat” to make them live and grow. Observe [...]