Category Archives: Atmosphere

SCUBAnauts Operation Deep Climb (ODC) – Day 4

Posted on 11/20/2007 by peggy

Day 4 – 14 October 2007 Anna – 16 Operation: Deep Climb participant Well I woke up and finished the last few things that I needed to do to be ready to leave and then joined the rest of my … Continue reading →

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SCUBAnauts International (SNI) – Day 4

Posted on 11/20/2007 by peggy

Day 4 – 12 October 2007 Madison SNI participant The KMC (Kilauea Military Camp) is at an altitude of about 4,068 feet (1240 m). You can see the geothermal vents from the road. The caldera is eleven miles (17.7 km) … Continue reading →

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More About Carbon Dioxide

Posted on 11/14/2007 by peggy

Recently, a group of scientists estimated that the increase in carbon dioxide release rate between 2000 and 2006 was greater than any of the scenarios envisioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the late 1990s. This brings … Continue reading →

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Measuring temperature using crickets

Posted on 10/05/2007 by peggy

Did you know that you could count cricket chirps to estimate temperature? I heard this a number of years ago, but never thought much about it until I heard it mentioned on television this summer. Was this true, or just … Continue reading →

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Climate Change 4. Carbon Dioxide Changes

Posted on 08/16/2007 by peggy

(Note: We discuss carbon dioxide because it contributes to slightly over half of current greenhouse warming, but we must remember that methane, CFCs, ozone, and nitrous oxide together account with slightly less than half). When I was a graduate student … Continue reading →

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