NEXRAD radar (rainfall) in Puerto Rico is back online, but now NOAA’s GOES satellite data, used for estimating ground-level solar radiation, is offline! Urrrr!! That means that GOES-PRWEB is still suffering from missing data. The algorithm currently uses an average of the last 14 days when the solar data is missing. GOES-13 data has been offline for around 7 days now. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we are receiving the solar data again.
Solar Radiation
How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth – Infographic by LEARNSTUFF.COM
Good News!! GOES-13 is back online. Solar Radiation Data is Available For Downloading
Good News!! GOES-13 is back online. Solar Radiation Can be downloaded by clicking HERE
The GOES-13 satellite was offline from September 25 through October 19, 2012. During this time, solar radiation data for PR and the northern Caribbean Region were not available. However, the water and energy balance algorithm (GOES-PRWEB) continued to function with estimated solar radiation data. GOES-PRWEB results for solar radiation and 24 other hydro-climate variables are available at
https://pragwater.com/goes-puerto-rico-water-and-energy-balance-goes-web-algorithm/
Is Global Warming Real?
I gave this homework assignment to my Agroclimatology class today. Perhaps you would like to try it?
Homework Problem: Do you believe that global warming is real?
Please read the articles and watch the YouTube video at the following links and provide me with a 1 page argument either for or against man-made global warming. (If you are not in my class, you don’t have to submit the 1 page argument, however, you may want to leave a comment below.)
Climate Change: ‘Hoax’ Or Crime Of The Century?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/
Most Used Climate Myths and what the science says….
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege – David Roberts – Climate Change is Simple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A7ktYbVwr90
DOWNLOAD SOLAR DATA FOR PR, DR, USVI, HAITI, JAMAICA AND CUBA
Recursos de Agua de Puerto Rico
Recursos de Agua de Puerto Rico
A great website with tons of information about Puerto Rico’s water resources
A new dissertation on Flood Prediction Limitations in Small Watersheds with Mountainous Terrain and High Rainfall Variability
Flood Prediction Limitations in Small Watersheds with Mountainous Terrain and High Rainfall Variability
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.
UCLA Develops Electricity-Generating, Transparent Solar Cell Windows
DOWNLOAD SOLAR DATA FOR PR, DR, USVI, HAITI, JAMAICA AND CUBA
The climate of the climate change debate is changing
The climate of the climate change debate is changing
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/
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