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by roter 5y ago
These are observational station locations, so typically located at airports, but will cluster in highly-developed countries and where people live or build things. Wet-bulb temperature is to first approximation the average of the dry-bulb (a
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by roter 5y ago
It is (likely) showing the 0.1% percentile of measured wet-bulb temperatures. i.e. in a given year, we expect 0.1% of the wet-bulbs to exceed this temperature or approximately 8 to 9 hours in a year.
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by roter 5y ago
NOAA has also recently released a mapping tool [0] that allows you to dig down to county level (scroll down to county map) for various hazards. [0] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/mapping
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by roter 5y ago
Living with someone with depression can be taxing on your own well-being, especially without a support group. Being supportive, always saying the right thing, etc. You absolutely need to find time for yourself. In my case, exploring new a
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by roter 5y ago
Canadian teachers are kind-of, sort-of well-paid including pretty good benefits [0]. Their salaries and their union's power are a large source of political "discourse" in Ontario. [0] From 2014/2015: https://w
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by roter 5y ago
And the Napoleon snowball fight is in the 1927 film [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film)
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by roter 5y ago
Tangential but an interesting linkage in the recent Economist [0] between the regions where political prisoners were relocated to Stalin's gulags and the relatively high "human capital" thereabouts. [0] https://www
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by roter 5y ago
I went to Xubuntu 20.04 and am quite happy. In fact, I switched my desktop to Xubuntu from Lubuntu in 18.04 so that I could upgrade to 20.04 [0]. [0] https://askubuntu.com/a/1363525
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by roter 5y ago
A dog encyclopedia? I have one called "Dogs" by Bruce Fogle [0] that classes dogs whether they are good with children, suitable for urban living, etc. [0] https://www.amazon.ca/Dogs-Over-000-Pedigree-Portraits&#x2F
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by roter 5y ago
On a tangent, I noticed when opening a new private window they are now pushing the VPN service. This may have been implemented in a previous update. This seems to disable it... for now: browser.privatebrowsing.promoEnabled: false
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by roter 5y ago
Reminded me of the 80s "K-car" [0]. They were everywhere, man. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_K_platform
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Twitter adds warning label to tweet from Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland(cbc.ca)
25 points by roter 5y ago|17 comments
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by roter 5y ago
The Gulf Stream doesn't shut down. The AMOC shuts off or decreases in intensity. This is thought to have led to a number of interesting climate blips since coming out of the last ice-age. i.e. melt water from North American land sheets
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by roter 5y ago
You can get a slight hint as to what it would look like by looking to the pacific northwest, Canada, Alaska. The northern pacific ocean has a "Gulf Stream" called the Kuroshio. However, there is no appreciable meridional overturni
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by roter 5y ago
There will always be a Gulf Stream as long as there are westerlies, a coastline, and Coriolis [0] [0] https://rwu.pressbooks.pub/webboceanography/chapter/9-4-west...
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by roter 5y ago
Not necessarily. The AMOC transports heat poleward in order to balance the net surplus of solar radiation in the tropics and net deficit radiational cooling at the poles. Lessening this pathway may mean other pathways may need to increase t
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by roter 5y ago
As long as the winds blow and the Earth spins, we will have a Gulf Stream. What the paper is referring to is the three-dimensional circulation driven by salt and heat fluxes. Sinking cold water near places like Iceland and gradual upwelling
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by roter 5y ago
Any global climate model worth its salt will have a comprehensive carbon cycle submodel, tracking the sources and sinks of carbon in all its forms, between ocean, soil, land, and atmosphere. Some models evolve the amount and type of plants
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by roter 6y ago
And particulate matter. The lawn maintenance workers come to neighbouring houses and just blow the stuff onto the street and towards the other houses. Then another crew comes in and blows it back. It eventually all ends up at my house. Clog
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by roter 6y ago
Kind of a corollary: Place something fixable in your PhD thesis so the examiners can find something to write about. Something that doesn't make you look stupid but will make them feel like they'd done a thorough review and won&#x2
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by roter 6y ago
Buildings take up a major proportion of the carbon and energy budget. Consider contributing to EnergyPlus[0]: > EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy
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by roter 6y ago
And building science[0]. But building science has always been full of buzzwords. [0] https://www.iesve.com/digital-twins
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by roter 6y ago
I checked your numbers against [0]. Road distance NY -> SF = 2900 miles [1]. Model S mileage is 290Wh/mi [2]. That is 840kW for Tesla against 657kW for a single transaction. This is all order-of-magnitude stuff but... wow. [0] ht
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by roter 6y ago
Boreal forests have a complex interaction with the climate system. The masking impact of trees on the snow underneath means the albedo or reflectivity of a boreal forest during winter is quite low -> absorption of heat in contrast to a t
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by roter 6y ago
Off by 10: 212.8mm = 0.2128m = 0.7ft = 8.4in
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by roter 6y ago
I've had to do a lot of videos of my talks this year for virtual conferences. This would be useful to eliminate all of those ums and ahs. My 20-minute presentation would likely get cut down to 15... I'd be interested to know the i
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by roter 6y ago
I have wide feet and I buy all my runners through the New Balance store. Never an issue.
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by roter 6y ago
I like it. You'd need (many) more than one. Pluto has an orbit of 248 years. Kind of like putting your wifi router on a train track on your property line and sharing with your neighbours. Perhaps on a bunch of objects at Lagrange point
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by roter 6y ago
I use a physical HP42S ~1989. I've lost count of the number of batteries replaced over the years. Doesn't have an excess of functionality beyond what I need and fits easily in the hand. Only piece of hardware that I would grieve.
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by roter 6y ago
> In climate science we do a lot of downscaling. We take temperature and precipitation readings from a coarse scale Global Climate Model grid and map them to a fine scale local grid. Let’s say the global grid is 50x25 and the local grid

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