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Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather drones serve as flying test beds for new sensors
The latest in George Leopold’s guest series on the use of drone aircraft for Earth observations, science, and services… NASA...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A new AMS policy statement on space weather.
In July, the American Meteorological Society’s Council adopted a new policy statement on space weather. It’s worth a read in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Building the legitimacy of ensemble” approaches to policy formulation.
Tuesday’s post made a case for what might be called “ensemble” approaches to policy formulation. The idea is borrowed from...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Further reflection on projected economic consequences of Arctic methane release
George Leopold’s guest post on this topic builds on a paper by Whiteman, Hope and Wadhams, published online yesterday. Their...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Avoiding a ‘methane pulse’ in the Arctic
Another guest post from George Leopold: An increasingly likely “methane pulse” that would result from the warming of Arctic permafrost...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“Ensemble” approaches work for weather forecasting. Why not for policy formulation?
This graphic, from Mike Smith’s blog, may look like a jumble to you. But to meteorologists, it’s a thing of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Notes from the 2013 International Hazard Mitigation Practitioners Symposium
One appealing and substantively important feature of the annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshops is the co-mingling of researchers and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More from the 2013 Hazards Workshop
The stream of consciousness flowing through Monday’s sessions… (Don’t you wish you’d said it?) From John Plodinec, in an early...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stream-of-consciousness impressions from the 2013 Hazards Workshop
Our nation owes much of its thinking on natural hazards and their risk management to a handful of hazards research...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Climate vs. weather prediction? Really?
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul” – George Bernard Shaw...
