Weather - February 2007

2007-02-16 04:18:19 · 7 answers · asked by twilight_mermaids 2

2007-02-16 03:54:12 · 12 answers · asked by zap 5

2007-02-16 03:37:23 · 5 answers · asked by Chris 1

just wondering...i honestly cannot find the answer anywhere else =\

2007-02-16 03:32:17 · 9 answers · asked by autumnrose 1

I am in Miami. To us its cold over here. Its is 57 or 60 degrees!!
But it is really great.

2007-02-16 03:13:18 · 19 answers · asked by Cindy 3

What is the "Global Warming" scientists are talking about?

2007-02-16 01:58:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a problem with snow on my parking spot. It is very hard snow that is ice-like! No way to dig it without hurting my hands. Is there a way to get rid of it? If salt is the answer, then what kind of salt.

2007-02-16 01:45:40 · 4 answers · asked by Jerry H 5

2007-02-16 01:06:14 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-16 00:24:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like on the 10 day forcast, it might say rain a week from now and when that day comes, its a 99% chance that it rains on that day. How do they pinpoint the weather like that?

2007-02-15 22:07:04 · 10 answers · asked by B. Gregory 2

2007-02-15 19:02:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

what name do we associate with the various phase changes- evaporation/condensation, freezing/melting, deposition/sublimation?

2007-02-15 17:40:02 · 1 answers · asked by hoodiechick 1

I want to either be on a news station giving forecasts, the one flying in a storm plane over the hurricane to get the pressure and all the other good stuff, work in the National Weather Center, or report from areas in the pathway of storms...not tornado chasers though. What will I have to major in? Meteorology and Telecommunications (news)? or just meteorology or combined with something else?

2007-02-15 17:18:02 · 9 answers · asked by water lily 3

i see them all the time when their are leaves on the ground and it is kinda windy outside. what is that called.

2007-02-15 17:03:14 · 8 answers · asked by bkern 3

DUDE! theres a foot of ice on the ground the snow froze and now its all ice everywhere! it sucks!!! it was all over my car and i had to bash the ice for like an hour to get it off!!!

2007-02-15 16:52:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think that groundhog was wrong about his weather forecast. LoL!

2007-02-15 16:17:44 · 14 answers · asked by lady_d_the_diva 3

2007-02-15 16:07:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-15 15:13:21 · 6 answers · asked by tarik a 1

2007-02-15 15:03:48 · 3 answers · asked by tarik a 1

how are various types of weather fronts indicated on a surface map?

2007-02-15 14:17:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-15 14:10:08 · 4 answers · asked by ♥Billy Ray♥ Valentine 7

2007-02-15 13:42:53 · 6 answers · asked by Jeanna A 1

2007-02-15 13:35:42 · 9 answers · asked by Jeanna A 1

2007-02-15 13:25:18 · 10 answers · asked by Jeanna A 1

2007-02-15 13:22:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
COLUMBUS , Ohio – A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models.

This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity.

It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.

David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.

"It's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now," he said. "Part of the reason is that there is a lot of variability there. It's very hard in these polar latitudes to demonstrate a global warming signal. This is in marked contrast to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth."

Bromwich says that the problem rises from several complications. The continent is vast, as large as the United States and Mexico combined. Only a small amount of detailed data is available – there are perhaps only 100 weather stations on that continent compared to the thousands spread across the U.S. and Europe . And the records that we have only date back a half-century.

"The best we can say right now is that the climate models are somewhat inconsistent with the evidence that we have for the last 50 years from continental Antarctica .

"We're looking for a small signal that represents the impact of human activity and it is hard to find it at the moment," he said.

Last year, Bromwich's research group reported in the journal Science that Antarctic snowfall hadn't increased in the last 50 years. "What we see now is that the temperature regime is broadly similar to what we saw before with snowfall. In the last decade or so, both have gone down," he said.

In addition to the new temperature records and earlier precipitation records, Bromwich's team also looked at the behavior of the circumpolar westerlies, the broad system of winds that surround the Antarctic continent.

"The westerlies have intensified over the last four decades of so, increasing in strength by as much as perhaps 10 to 20 percent," he said. "This is a huge amount of ocean north of Antarctica and we're only now understanding just how important the winds are for things like mixing in the Southern Ocean." The ocean mixing both dissipates heat and absorbs carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

Some researchers are suggesting that the strengthening of the westerlies may be playing a role in the collapse of ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula.

"The peninsula is the most northern point of Antarctica and it sticks out into the westerlies," Bromwich says. "If there is an increase in the westerly winds, it will have a warming impact on that part of the continent, thus helping to break up the ice shelves, he said.

"Farther south, the impact would be modest, or even non-existent."

Bromwich said that the increase in the ozone hole above the central Antarctic continent may also be affecting temperatures on the mainland. "If you have less ozone, there's less absorption of the ultraviolet light and the stratosphere doesn't warm as much."

That would mean that winter-like conditions would remain later in the spring than normal, lowering temperatures.

"In some sense, we might have competing effects going on in Antarctica where there is low-level CO2 warming but that may be swamped by the effects of ozone depletion," he said. "The year 2006 was the all-time maximum for ozone depletion over the Antarctic."

Bromwich said the disagreement between climate model predictions and the snowfall and temperature records doesn't necessarily mean that the models are wrong.

"It isn't surprising that these models are not doing as well in these remote parts of the world. These are global models and shouldn't be expected to be equally exact for all locations," he said.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php

2007-02-15 12:27:48 · 8 answers · asked by **Anti-PeTA** 5

2007-02-15 12:13:09 · 4 answers · asked by Jeanna A 1

2007-02-15 11:59:59 · 11 answers · asked by Jeanna A 1

Well this is homework help and science help :)
This is what the probablem said:
An air mass from Gulf of Mexico is pushing north into Pittsburgh, which has been under the influence of Canadian air mass for several days. What are the conditions now in Pittsburgh, and what will they be two or three days from now?
Only answer if you know lol :)
Thank you!

2007-02-15 11:45:48 · 5 answers · asked by sarah 4

help!!!!!!

2007-02-15 10:59:31 · 6 answers · asked by gkret@sbcglobal.net 1