Journal of Climate

Deadly heat waves are becoming more frequent in California

From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually high humidity levels for this typically arid region led to the deaths of more than 600 people, 25,000 cattle and 70,000 poultry in California alone.

AMS June science highlights

Following are story ideas and tips about upcoming AMS meetings, papers in our peer-reviewed journals, and other happenings in the atmospheric and related sciences community.

MIT: Climate change odds much worse than thought

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago -- and could be even worse than that.

Water levels dropping in some major rivers as global climate changes

BOULDER--Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow.

As world warms, water levels dropping in major rivers

Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a comprehensive study of global stream flows.

Forest burning is a net contributor to global warming

What is the net effect on global temperature of the gases and particles produced when biomass is burned? That long-standing question in climate change has finally been answered, according to Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. In a study published in the Aug. 1 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, he concludes that the particles cause short-term global cooling, but over decades the gases overwhelm this cooling effect to cause long-term global warming.

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