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Hurricanes and climate change: NCAR launches intensive study into future hurricane risk
NCAR, working with federal agencies and universities as well as the insurance and energy industries, has launched an intensive study to examine how global warming will influence hurricanes in the next few decades.
- Climate,
- Weather
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Andrea Sealy
Andrea Sealy has been working for the last two years to find some answers to the many questions surrounding the Sahelian drought.
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Fitting new pieces into the African drought puzzle
Andrea Sealy, NCAR's Advanced Study Program • If you are from the Caribbean and you're good at math and science, the advice you get is to become a doctor, says Sealy. "But I never liked biology much," she adds. Now she's a researcher at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology.
- Weather
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Dengue fever heads north
Research by NCAR scientist Mary Hayden underscores the risk of dengue fever and the growing threat of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the Rio Grande Valley between far south Texas and northeast Mexico.
- Climate
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Between air and sea
NCAR scientists Bill Large and Steve Yeager have produced a new analysis of the exchanges of heat, momentum, and moisture between the oceans and atmosphere that should help climate modelers better assess variability on several time scales.
- Climate