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Iceberg
A new study has revealed a rapid response between global temperature and ice volume/sea-level, which could lead to sea-levels rising by over one metre. During the last few million years, global ice-volume variability has been one of the main feedback mechanisms in climate change, because of the…
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Seascape (courtesy of Leighton Rolley)
Scientists have developed a new approach for evaluating past climate sensitivity data to help improve comparison with estimates of long-term climate projections developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The sensitivity of global temperature to changes in the Earth’s…
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Mediterranean Sea (image: Wikimedia Commons)
An exercise taking place this week, that simulates a tsunami striking the north-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas, will involve 19 states stretching from Cape Verde to Lebanon and from Spain to Finland.It was borne out of an international meeting, hosted by the National…
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Joseph Proudman building, Liverpool
20 November 2012 – The 2012 Proudman Lecture will be given by Prof. Reiner Rummel from Technische Universität München, entitled “Gravity from space, the geoid and the ocean”The lecture will be held in the Halsall Room, Foresight Centre, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, beginning promptly at 14:00 on…
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Ocean and Earth Day at NOC
This event took place on Saturday 17 March 2012Ocean and Earth Day 2012 is the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton’s (NOCS) event for the National Science and Engineering Week, and is run in tandem with NOC Liverpool and the University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science.The NOC is the…