The report set out to criticise many aspects of MBH, and
climatology as a whole but was written by authors with no prior experience in this field.
Already this is not my understanding of
a climatology as I understood it to include the expected seasonal cycle, e.g. the file abstem3 in the HadCRUT3 dataset.
Below is the rather surprising paragraph in the BBC's reply to complaints that the recent radio presence of denialist Lawson was as inappropriate within a discussion on
climatology as say an alchemist on things chemical, a blood - letter on medical care or a Soviet planner on the economy.
BTW, a google search for the phrase «temporo - spatially heterogeneous» only finds hits in medical literature for that exact phrase, it doesn't seem to be used in
climatology as far as Dr Google can see... even a search for similar phrases only comes up with hits that appear to be in the biological field.
The Public and Climate Change (1)(2) Wintry Doom Ice Sheets and Rising Seas Government: The View from Washington Climate Modification Schemes Money for Keeling: Monitoring CO2 Levels International Cooperation
Climatology as a Profession
«Stefan: It is unreasonable to believe that
climatology as a science is wrong about climate change.
I consider this being the single most important question on which the very existence of
climatology as science depends.
Climatology as practiced in the West has been likened by the Japanese to the ancient science of astrology.
And to describe
climatology as laughably inadequate by comparison would be an understatement.
It is a terrible indictment of
climatology as a «profession'that it is the outside amateurs that find the problems.
Climatology as a physical science has blossomed in the last thirty years as a direct result of the establishment of the IPCC and its AGW hypothesis.
In it, Johnson demonstrates that Tim Ball got a PhD in geography, on a topic of historical geography and meteorology, not in
climatology as Ball claimed.
Big Brother's computer models worked as well in
climatology as they did in economics.
If you spent half as much effort on a moral crusade to clean up
climatology as you do in berating other bloggers for their supposed moral failings, then we'd all have better science.
Climatology as a science has a long history.
No, bender, just understanding computer modeling doesn't mean you understand
climatology as well, any more than someone who can program a runge - kutta differential equation solver but never took an astronomy course can do solar modeling.
... betrays a profound ignorance of the state — or for that matter even the nature — of
climatology as a science.
Not exact matches
Invoking history, physics, biology,
climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism
as well
as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.
NARWHALS packing temperature and depth gauges connected to satellite transmitters have revealed that
climatology models used for the Baffin bay region — which links the Atlantic and Arctic oceans — underestimate winter ocean temperatures there by
as much
as 1 °C.
The Foundation's remit is to explore these caves on physical and scientific grounds, blending disciplines such
as climatology, geology, hydrology, and biology.
And
as we continue to warm our planet,
Climatology may be our only hope to save us from ourselves.
In the main, Wegman meaterial has been incorporated verbatim, with minor changes such
as slight wording (e.g. «challenge» instead of «problem») or the addition of hyphens («paleo -
climatology», not «paleoclimatology»).
Other studies analyzing satellite data from the International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project (ISCCP), the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) such
as Chang and Coakley (2007) and Eitzen et al. (2008) have indicated that cloud optical depth of low marine clouds might be expected to decrease with increasing temperature.
I recommend ignoring this journal, these authors and this paper
as irrelevant to
climatology.
MHW properties and annual time series and linear trends were calculated
as for the NOAA OI SST data with the same 1983 — 2013 period used to define the baseline
climatology and threshold.
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global
climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts
as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.
In this section, we describe our state's unique geography and topography,
as well
as current
climatology and the historical climate trends that have led us to the present day.
So, there's no reason to believe attribuction - detection of
climatologies will not evolve in the future,
as well
as climate sensitivity for 2xCO2.
Scientists who study
climatology are known
as climatologists.
Resources cover such broad themes
as geographical science, geological science, and ocean science,
as well
as the following subject areas: biology, chemistry,
climatology, cryology, ecology, environmental science, and forestry.
• Bloomsbury is launching a new popular science imprint, Sigma, which will feature books on subjects such
as evolutionary biology, astronomy, robotics, bioengineering and
climatology.
He said the decision had been made during the evaluation meeting to discuss reports from the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG), the Meteorology,
Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in Darwin
as well
as pilots» observation and tests conducted at the airport.
He digs deep, often collaborating with specialists in such fields
as engineering, architecture, genomics and
climatology to produce engaging art objects, videos and installations that take on subjects like identity, ethics, aesthetics, climate and other social and political systems.
In any case, the significance of this to
climatology is,
as I pointed out, tiny.
I recommend ignoring this journal, these authors and this paper
as irrelevant to
climatology.
Instead, modellers work to improve the
climatology of the model (the fit to the average conditions), and it's intrinsic variability (such
as the frequency and amplitude of tropical variability).
David B. Benson — this admittedly still has nothing to do with
climatology, but since you speculated, leukemia can easily take
as little
as 2 - 3 years to develop after exposure to ionizing radiation.
DanH — what you are doing is a sort of seat - of - the - pants Exploratory Data Analysis — which is OK, but is an incomplete way to understand science, especially something
as complicated and comprehensive
as climatology (there's a reason most papers have multiple authors, and still have to pass peer review).
Steve's predictions also extended to what he perceived
as a big coming change to aerosol
climatology.
As a layperson (to
climatology, tho not my field), who would be much more interested in avoiding the false negative of failing to mitigate a true serious problem, I look at ACC this way: We live in a warmed & warming world....
This is quite subtle though — weather forecast models obviously do better if they have initial conditions that are closer to the observations, and one might argue that for particular climate model predictions that are strongly dependent on the base
climatology (such
as for Arctic sea ice) tuning to the
climatology will be worthwhile.
As always these events fall into the crack between meteorology and
climatology, neither can be explained properly without the other.
«
Climatology» is apparently (
as Thomas shows us @ 166) also used
as the title for an ANU course on AGW.
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global
climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts
as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.
«The global mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered
as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the Global Precipitation
Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estimates).
This is in fact part of the central conceit behind
climatology: it isn't dealing with the day to day weather so much
as the average behavior of the system, but it can do this only because fluctuations and unknown factors often cancel one - another out.
As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatolog
As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least,
as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatolog
as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to
climatology.
Respondents would be chosen based on their stature in the field of
climatology and directly related disciplines such
as geochemistry.
In 1880 — 1919, before the appearance of the strong warming trend over this region, WEIO tended to be anomalously colder than EEIO most of the time, and thus we see the strong negative events show in Fig. 4, since we have used the
climatology of the entire period from 1880 to 2004
as the reference.
Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied
Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator
as there was a skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to climate
as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent climate change).