June 28, 2017
The pioneering meteorologist and author of The Thunderstorm is dead at 96.
June 28, 2017
DoGS postdoc Alice Marzocchi and assistant professor Malte Jansen have recently published the paper “Connecting Antarctic sea ice to deep-ocean circulation in modern and glacial climate simulations” in Geophysical Research Letters. The study investigates the effect of increased Antarctic sea ice formation during glacial periods on the meridional overturning circulation in a number of climate models that are also used for future projections. The proposed mechanism explains more than half of the intermodel spread and discrepancies with the geological record can broadly be reconciled.
June 13, 2017
Jacob Bean, an associate professor in astronomy, and associate professor Dorian Abbot have published a paper arguing that the best scientific returns will come from statistical tests of Earth-like extrasolar planets. Many people have focused on how we may be able to tell whether a specific extrasolar planet is inhabited by life, but it is likely that we won't be able to prove this in a way that will convince everyone for a very long time. Instead we may make more progress by using new telescopes to determine statistically whether scientific theories related to planetary habitability work by on studying large numbers of Earth-like planets.