New funding supports drought predictions in Hawaiʻi, Pacific Islands
UH Mānoa and NOAA researchers secured a NOAA grant to assess factors affecting the intensity and duration of droughts.
UH Mānoa and NOAA researchers secured a NOAA grant to assess factors affecting the intensity and duration of droughts.
The atmosphere’s “music” comes not as a sound we could hear, but in the form of large-scale waves of atmospheric pressure spanning the globe.
An international team of climate researchers, lead by Bin Wang of the UH Manoa examined 33 El Niño events to predict future El Niño behavior and shifts in weather patterns.
H. Annamalai at the International Pacific Research Center and his team are working to help scientists strengthen their weather and climate prediction models.
An International Pacific Research Center study by Yuqing Wang, Jiuwei Zhao and Ruifen Zhan shows a strong connection between the Global Warming Hiatus phenomenon and changes in cyclone activity over the northwest Pacific Ocean.
Researchers from the International Pacific Research Center say the combination of rising sea levels and wave-driven flooding will cause tremendous damage.
Research is published by climate modelers Kevin Hamilton and Takatoshi Sakazaki of the International Pacific Research Center.
The study concluded that with warmer sea surface temperatures, tropical cyclones become not only stronger, with higher maximum wind speeds, but also larger, with gale-force winds covering a greater area.
Research indicates that the two volcano summits are typically snow-covered at least 20 days each winter but that the snow cover will nearly disappear by the end of the century.
The first participants in the student and faculty exchanges will focus on climate change research.