Archive for the ‘Climate’ Category
Mapping climate change
The impact of climatic change on global agriculture is an area of concern for food security, policy, investment etc. While agricultural productivity continues to increase, climatic change introduces an unwelcome element of uncertainty and risk. David Lobell (Stanford University) and co-workers have related changes inВ crop yields to observed climatic shifts over the past thirty years. [...]
January 2, 2012
Posted in: Agriculture, Climate 
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Cold Winter Sun?
Recent winters brought extreme cold to North West Europe and parts of the US. It is not likely that consecutive severe winters occurred purely by chance.В If not, then what was the cause? And will it happen again this year? Blocking and the Arctic Oscillation Extreme conditions can occur when the normal variable circulation of the [...]
November 8, 2011
Tags: Arctic Oscillation Posted in: Climate No Comments
