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Arctic Climate Forum expects above normal winter temperatures
News
Polar, Climate change
Publish Date: 20 November 2020
Above normal temperatures and precipitation are expected across most of the Arctic region for November-January 2020/2021, according to a new s easonal climate outlook produced at the sixth session of Arctic Climate Forum.
Arctic research expedition ends
News
Cryosphere, Polar, Climate change
Publish Date: 12 October 2020
The most ambitious Arctic research expedition ever undertaken has come to a successful end after spending more than a year researching climate change in the Arctic, Drifting with the ice, the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) endured the extreme cold, Arctic storms, a constantly changing floe – and the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Arctic sea ice minimum is 2nd lowest on record
News
Climate change, Cryosphere, Polar
Publish Date: 22 September 2020
Arctic sea ice – a key climate change indicator - has reached its annual minimum extent after the summer melt season. It was the second lowest extent only after the record low observed in 2012.
Arctic: heat, fire and melting ice
News
Climate change, Polar, Cryosphere
Publish Date: 31 July 2020
Exceptional and prolonged heat in Siberia has fuelled devastating Arctic fires. At the same time, rapidly decreasing sea ice coverage has been reported along the Russian Arctic coast.
WMO Regional Training Centre in Italy supports competency development for climate services in Africa
News
Education, Training, Education and Training, Capacity development
Publish Date: 29 June 2020
The WMO Regional Training Centre in Italy, founded in 1987 and officially recognized by WMO in 1997, is operated by the Institute of BioEconomy of the National Research Council.
Women in Science taking the lead in the Pacific Islands
Gender, Training
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (1) - 2020
Theme: Careers
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Publish Date: 23 March 2020
Climate change and its impacts are affecting all members of society – women, men, girls and boys – but not always in the same way. In the widely-dispersed Pacific islands with their varying geographical conditions, cultures and socials structures, these differences are magnified. Pauline Pogi a hydrologist in the Water Resource Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Samoa stated, “Women, especially women who care for children or the elderly, are among the groups that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
New record for Antarctic continent reported
News
Climate change, Meteorology, Polar
Publish Date: 14 February 2020
The Argentine research base, Esperanza, on the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula, set a new record temperature of 18.3°C on 6 February, beating the former record of 17.5°C on 24 March 2015, according to Argentina’s national meteorological service (SMN).
Glacier melt and Arctic change affects the globe
News
Climate change, Cryosphere, Polar
Publish Date: 11 December 2019
Glacier melt will inevitably increase in the future, both for 1.5°C and 2°C temperature increases, with global impacts for water resources and sea level rise.
In the footsteps of polar explorers
Weather, Climate, Environment, Polar, Clouds, Oceans
Bulletin nº Vol 65 (1) - 2016
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Publish Date: 21 March 2016
In pitch dark at 40 below, a research expedition set out to the icy Arctic Ocean in January 2015.Their goal: to better understand ongoing changes in the Arctic due to a shift from an older and thicker ice cover that would survive the summer melt to a younger and thinner one that, to a larger degree, melts away in the summer.
The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community
Weather, Climate, Environment, Research, Education, Training, Climate services, Forecast
Bulletin nº Vol 65 (1) - 2016
21
Publish Date: 21 March 2016
by WMO Secretariat 1 Due to human-induced climate change, the planet is undergoing many changes. “We have had years of record Arctic sea ice minimum. We have lost a massive...