Climate Watch – October 2016 Edition: Spring is here again (here in South Africa)
I’m currently in South Africa for a project on infectious diseases (see here for English description) The phot…
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Tropical Atlantic Post #2 – Something’s cooking off the West Coast
After a long break (I’d rather not call it a hiatus) I’m finally back to blogging on the tropical Atlantic. In…
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Climate Watch – September 2016 Edition: Typhoon season
Seems like Japan is getting its fair share of typhoons this year. But even when there is no typhoon around it …
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Climate Watch – August 2016 Edition: Fall is calling
The photo shows cumulonimbus clouds over the Bōsō Peninsula (Chiba Prefecture, southeast of Tokyo), as seen fr…
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Climate Watch – July 2016 Edition: Summer at last
Hi there! What did everybody do for Marine Day?1 The picture above shows the ocean closest to the Yokohama Cam…
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Climate Watch – The proof is in the pudding: verifying the spring 2016 forecast
Hi there, we hope everybody here in Japan is able to cope with the cloudy skies and muggy weather that accompa…
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Climate Watch – June 2016 Edition: The negative Indian Ocean Dipole makes its appearance
Japan’s rainy season has started and hydrangea are flowering left and right. Rain in the Kanto region, however…
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Tropical Atlantic Post #1 – you’ve gotta start somewhere
This is the first in a series of posts I intend to write on current weather and climate related events in the …
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Climate Watch – May 2016 Edition: What’s in store for summer?
Hi there, how is everybody? Did you all enjoy the Golden Week holidays? As oceanographers, of course, we used …
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