wildfire Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:45:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Visualizing Climate Change – Australia’s New Colors https://www.greenoptimistic.com/visualizing-climate-change-australias-new-colors-20130110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/visualizing-climate-change-australias-new-colors-20130110/#respond Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:45:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31139 Real meteorology is all numbers, thousands of measurements made every day to quantify barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, and temperature, among others. Meteorologists take these numbers as well as millions of historical data points and attempt to give us an idea of what’s coming in the next few hours or days. When you […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/visualizing-climate-change-australias-new-colors-20130110/feed/ 0 31139 High Risk of Wildfire in the US predicted by Climate Models https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-risk-of-wildfire-in-the-us-predicted-by-climate-models-20121205/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-risk-of-wildfire-in-the-us-predicted-by-climate-models-20121205/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:56:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29368 Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md conducted a study using satellite data and climate models, predicting drier conditions and increased risk of wildfires in the next few decades. At the annual meeting of American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, the team presented their findings that cover information about future climate change, […]

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