Ph.D. Dissertation by Alejandra María Rojas González, Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez Campus, July 2012.
Testbed Subwatershed (TBSW) location within the 4 km by 4 km NEXRAD pixel and rain gauge network.
Quantifying how greenhouse gases contribute to extreme weather is a crucial step in calculating the cost of human influence
Related Links:
Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice
https://pragwater.com/2012/06/27/climate-variability-and-climate-change-the-new-climate-dice/
Study links global warming to Texas heat waves
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4621303/study-links-global-warming-to.html
Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/10/extreme-weather-manmade-climate-change?CMP=twt_fd
Crazy summer is a result of ‘global weirding’, not warming
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-1-120738-Crazy-summer-is-a-result-of-%E2%80%98global-weirding%E2%80%99-not-warming
State of the Climate – NOAA’s June Report
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
The National Academies, the nation’s preeminent independent scientific advisory body, has released a series of videos building on themes laid out in its America’s Climate Choices reports over the past couple of years. Above, you can watch the material as a single long video. Below you can find links to seven themed sections:
There’s plenty more on Dot Earth related to these reports. And of course there’s plenty here on the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.
Example results: Actual Evapotranspiration for the June 2012 over Puerto Rico. Units are in millimeters/month.
Additional Information:
GOES-Puerto Rico Water and Energy Balance (GOES-WEB) Algorithm
HYDROGEOLOGY OF THE PRINCIPAL SPRINGS IN PUERTO
The concept of the global brain has been around since the beginning of the last century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain). I remember back in the early 1980’s, my mother-in-law, Jane Howard Edmonds, was promoting the concept by sharing a VHS video tape on the subject with her friends and family. Since then, the concept has become closer to a reality as described by Tim O’Reilly.
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