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Category Archives: Earth System Science
An interesting relationship: soil temperature and climate change
It seems common place that warmer air temperature leads to warmer soil temperature. And while this relationship seems intuitive, the effect isn’t always studied, especially with respect to the response from microorganisms. That is why researchers are investigating what happens … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon, Climate, Climate Change, Earth System Science, General Science, Soil
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Trees in trouble: what affect does tree mortality have on climate change
Through our trees in trouble series, we’ve examined trees in the Sahel zone in Africa and the United States. This problem, climate change and dying trees, has been seen on every continent, the only exception being Antarctica, due to the … Continue reading
Posted in Atmosphere, Climate, Climate Change, Earth System Science, Land Cover
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A tale of two extremes
Weather extremes have become a common theme in the news headlines the past few weeks. For example, nearly every part of the United States has been experiencing one of two extremes – either frigid cold or record-breaking high temperatures. Places … Continue reading
GLOBE at AMS – sharing our community
This week I attended the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Austin, TX. I started attending eight years ago as a senior undergraduate meteorology major at Millersville University. That first year, I’ll admit, was very overwhelming … Continue reading
The chicken and egg story of global warming and extreme droughts: A lesson on climate feedbacks
I recently read that the extreme drought in western North America during 2000-2004 actually resulted in more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. In the article in Nature Geoscience, it explained that such droughts can further enhance global warming. … Continue reading
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