Historic Data, Data Rescue Archive

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    Maiden IEDRO Trip to Namibia Scheduled

    Posted on November 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
    In early 2009, Namibia experienced its worst flooding in four decades.  276,000 people, or approximately one in seven Namibians, were forced to leave their homes due to the floods, which washed out roads, destroyed cropland and hospitals, and caused the incidence of cholera and malaria...

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    Reconstructing History: Understanding Past Weather to Improve Forecasts

    Posted on September 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
    ESRL Quarterly Newsletter – Spring 2009, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/news/quarterly/spring2009/reanalysis.html Today, weather instruments around the globe collect millions of observations daily, giving forecasters and others a fairly comprehensive view of the global atmosphere and upcoming weather. A century ago, a few hundred observers on land and sea—most in...

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    NASA’s GRIP Project: Leading Edge Research on Hurricanes

    Posted on September 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
    By Penny Paugh In August 2010, NASA launched the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Earth science field experiment to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA hopes forecasters will assimilate GRIP data into their prediction models to improve forecasts...

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    Clam Shells

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Clamshells may provide the most fascinating detailed record July 2010 By Virginie NOEL Paleo data come from natural sources, such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, as well as, ocean and lake sediments. These data extend the archive of weather and climate back hundreds to...

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    Cost of not collecting historic weather data

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | No Comments
    November 2009 By Gerald Hawkins The raging waters of Mother Nature can render our world helpless, leaving homes destroyed, families ruptured, and the environment damaged. A flood can ruin an entire region in a matter of minutes. China, Istanbul, and the Philippines have recently lost...

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    Past2Present

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Scientists Predict the Future by Looking at the Past January 2010 Raymond McIntyre Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are going back over the records of meteorologists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The intent is to feed the information gathered by...

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  • Antartica by bbs.keyhole

    Antarctica

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Research at Antarctica June 2010 By Kevin Tsai To many people Antarctica is nothing more than a vast expanse of snow and ice, a frozen and inhospitable continent. For scientists interested in understanding climate change and the composition of the universe, Antarctica is a promising...

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  • Pacific islands by blogs.voanews

    Pacific Islands

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Digitized Historical Meteorological Records Invaluable to Climate Prediction Model for Pacific Islands Region September 2010 By Carmen Lee Collection and digitization of historical climate data is critical to the work of an inter-governmental organization protecting and managing the environment and natural resources in the Pacific...

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    Paleoclimatologists

    Posted on September 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Paleo Proxy Data: a Website Review April 2010 By Martina M. Dewey A paleoclimatologist’s work is science focused on the climate of past ages. Proxy data is data that paleoclimatologists gather from natural recorders of climate variability, e.g., tree rings, ice cores, fossil pollen, ocean...

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