Tag: Climate
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The El Nino Story
The Beginning of the Endeavour In the early 1891, a traveler named S.M. Scott was staying near Talara in northwestern Peru when clouds started building on the horizon. He described the extraordinary season of torrential rains and a transformed landscape as “a low-hanging, densely clouded sky, intense heat … The rain fell in inconceivable torrents…
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Understanding Data: A Window into History and Climate
Let us go back by a century, and imagine ourselves to be one of the crew onboard a ship sailing vast global seas. Surrounded by the blue ocean and open sky, part of your daily routine would be to jot down weather observations in a logbook – a notebook filled with careful notes about what…
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Let’s sail into climate past, charting historical rainfall in Southeast Asia
The historical rainfall rescue project, Monsoon Voyages is a new initiative that seeks to digitise and analyse old rainfall records, shedding light on historical weather patterns in Southeast Asia. These records, dating back as far as the 19th century, are a treasure trove of information that can enhance our understanding of climate change, inform water…