06 07 2010
New weather and climate observations from the Southern Ocean
A rugged buoy has been deployed in the wild Southern Ocean to help provide better weather and climate observations. Called a Flux Station, the buoy is a first for the Southern Ocean and has been purpose built to withstand the harsh conditions and fatiguing effects of big seas in the \'roaring forties\'.
read more29 06 2010
Keynote address: 2010 Climate Adaption Futures Conference
*** Check against delivery *** Introduction It is a pleasure to be here at the opening of this Climate Change Adaptation Futures Conference. A conference that comes at a challenging point in the debate on climate change.
read more25 06 2010
BROKE-West breaks ground in marine research
A comprehensive survey of the South West Indian Ocean off the East Antarctic coast has shown it to be a region rich in marine life and the site of important oceanographic processes.
read more16 06 2010
Antarctic scientists win Super Science Fellowship
16 June 2010 The Super Science project will develop spatial models of Southern Ocean habitats and their use by higher predators. Photo: AAD Australian Antarctic Division scientists, Dr Steve Nicol and Dr Nick Gales, have been awarded one of only 100 Super Science Fellowships offered by the Australian...
read more16 06 2010
NOAA: May Global Temperature is Warmest on Record
Spring and January-May also post record breaking...
read more15 06 2010
International Polar Year officially closed
6/14/2010 // The International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY), the largest polar research and education venture ever undertaken, formally came to an end at a ceremony in Oslo on Saturday 12 June the final day of the IPY Oslo Science Conference.
read more04 06 2010
Coral atolls hold on despite sea-level rise
WELLINGTON, New Zealand Some South Pacific coral atolls have held their own or even grown in size over the past 60 years despite rising sea levels, research showed Thursday.
read more03 06 2010
Seal Bulls in the Service of Science
"Gustavo" is an imposing bull always in search of the best feeding grounds. The elephant seal weighing 3 tons and measuring 4 metres in length belongs to a group of 14 animals that serve researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute as scientific assistants since recently.
read more31 05 2010
Past helps piece together future climate change
OFF the Broome coast, on the Great Barrier Reef and in the central Pacific, scientists are drilling into coral and surfacing with a picture of the past.
read more27 05 2010
Iron Fertilization Dead In The Water? Controversial Geoengineering Proposal Banned In Us Climate Change Legislation
email print Review Clears Controversial Southern Ocean Iron \'Fertilization\' Experiment; \'Germany Remains A Reliable Partner\' Report: 20% Of World\'s Corals Already Dead; Climate Change Tipping Point \'Less Than A Decade Away\' Oceanographer: Nitrous Oxide Emitting Aquatic \'Dead Zones\' Contributing To Climate...
read more19 05 2010
Research vessel Polarstern returns from the Antarctic
- (idw) Alfred-Wegener-Institut folar- und Meeresforschung First expedition through entire polar South Pacific Press Release of 12 May 2010 On coming Monday, 17 May the research vessel Polarstern is expected back in Bremerhaven.
read more18 05 2010
NOAA: Warmest April Global Temperature on Record
Also Warmest January...
read more30 04 2010
Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer Into Antarctica's Past to See Our Future Climate
The poles control much of our global climate. Giant ice sheets in Antarctica behave like mirrors, reflecting the sun\'s energy and moderating the world\'s temperatures.
read more29 04 2010
Melting Icebergs in Polar Oceans Causing Sea Level Rise Globally, New Assessment Finds
Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise -- by a mere hair\'s breadth today, but possibly much more if melting trends continue.
read more26 04 2010
Moorings find deep current
A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, 4200 kilometres south-west of Perth.
read more23 04 2010
Address by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Secretary General of the International Human Frontier Science...
read more23 04 2010
Address by Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Institute for Environmental Physics, University...
read more23 04 2010
Bayer Climate Award presented to polar researcher Peter Lemke
Recognition of pioneering research into sea ice / Bayer Management Board Chairman Wenning: Scientifically grounded understanding of climate change necessary / Continue commitment to reducing global...
read more23 04 2010
Whale poo fertilises ocean
The important role whale poo plays in the productivity of the Southern Ocean has been revealed in a new study. Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) are looking at how krill and whales contribute to the recycling of...
read more22 04 2010
Troubling Signs for Ice Sheets' Future
from Scientific American ERICE, Italy -- If you think of Earth\'s poles as fraternal twins, the Arctic has been the wild one in recent years, while the Antarctic has been a steady plodder.
read more19 04 2010
Detecting Irregular Gravity
Catherine Clabby You are forgiven if you assume that Earths gravity is uniform all over the globe. Most people probably do. But Earths variable mass results in differences in the planets gravitational tug.
read more17 04 2010
Missing Heat Build-up May Affect Future Climate Change
Earth\'s energy is out of balance: more is absorbed from the sun than emitted back to space. Courtesy of NASA Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a "Perspectives" article in the journal Science.
read more17 04 2010
Dry Regions Becoming Drier: Ocean Salinities Show an Intensified Water Cycle
The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases. The study, co-authored by CSIRO scientists Paul Durack and Dr Susan Wijffels, shows the surface ocean beneath rainfall-dominated regions has freshened, whereas ocean regions..
read more16 04 2010
NOAA: Global Temps Push Last Month to Hottest March on Record
The worlds combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the fourth warmest for any March on record.
read more14 04 2010
Global water cycle intensifying
Evidence that the world\'s water cycle has already intensified is contained in new research to be published in the American Journal of Climate. The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases.
read more14 04 2010
The summary of discussion of the 13th Session of the joint working group on cooperation in meteorology between CMA and BOM was signed
Source:China Meteorological News Press On April 13, the summary of discussion of the 13th Session of the joint working group on cooperation in meteorology between China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) was signed in Beijing.
read more09 04 2010
Climate 'debate' is just nitpicking
The most fundamental problem with the "climate change debate" is that a small disparate group of "loud and proud" people are manufacturing popular doubt.
read more08 04 2010
Calculating sea-level rise
Measuring sea level rise, with any certainty, is a notoriously difficult task. Fifteen models were presented to the IPCC and none of them are in agreement.
read more07 04 2010
Nature's defences
Olive Heffernan When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its assessment report on global warming in 2007, it was faced with a tough decision.
read more07 04 2010
A sea of uncertainty
Jason A. Lowe & Jonathan M. Gregory How well can we predict future sea level rise? For sea level to rise by more than one metre, the contribution from the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets would have to increase considerably in the future.
read more07 04 2010
A new view on sea level rise
Stefan Rahmstorf Has the IPCC underestimated the risk of sea level rise? Recent studies predict that sea level could rise by more than one metre this century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to escalate.
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