Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
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European temperature records smashed amid 2014 heat wave
PARIS/MONTREAL – The year 2014 broke a series of heat records in France, Britain, Germany and Belgium, weather agencies reported Monday. In France, “2014 was the hottest year since 1900,” the Meteo-France
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U.K. Reports Warmest Year on Record and Fourth-Wettest in 2014
The U.K. set a record for its warmest year in 2014 and endured its fourth-wettest in more than a century, according to provisional full-year figures today from the Met Office. The weather forecaster
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2014 was Australia's third warmest year on record, says Bureau of Meteorology
Australia experienced its third warmest year on record in 2014 with six major heat waves scorching the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Last year was 0.91C warmer than the long-term
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Last year was one of warmest on record in Ireland
2014 was wet, warm and sunny almost nationwide according to Met Éireann. Rainfall and sunshine levels were near or above the long-term average. The warmest day of the year was recorded in Durrow, Co Laois
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Movements of western disturbance and associated cloud convection
<p>Western disturbances have a long history of climatological, synoptic and satellite observations based studies. In present study an attempt has been made to understand the different aspects of western
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Scientific assessment of ozone depletion: 2014
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2014 is the quadrennial report of the Scientific Assessment Panel (SAP) of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The SAP assesses
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Immersion freezing by natural dust based on a soccer ball model with the Community Atmospheric Model version 5: climate effects
We introduce a simplified version of the soccer ball model (SBM) developed by Niedermeier et al (2014 Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 736–741) into the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5). It is the first
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A conceptual model for assessing rainfall and vegetation trends in sub-Saharan Africa from satellite data
Policymakers, governments and aid agencies require operational environmental monitoring in support of evidence-based policy-making and resource deployment in crisis situations. For Africa, this is only
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The extreme 2014 flood in south-western Amazon basin: the role of tropical-subtropical South Atlantic SST gradient
Unprecedented wet conditions are reported in the 2014 summer (December–March) in South-western Amazon, with rainfall about 100% above normal. Discharge in the Madeira River (the main southern Amazon tributary)
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Severe El Niños Can Stunt Children's' Growth
Researchers have found startling evidence that a severe El Niño can actually slow the growth of children, stunting their height. This reportedly occurred 17 years ago, when an intense El Niño and its resulting