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Re: New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades
Date 2015-11-27 01:54 +0000
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase 
> in next two decades
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-metric-european-strong-decades.html
> 
> 
>> Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude
>> that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into
>> account.
>>
>> The new metric?the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId)?indicates
>> that a little-studied heat wave in Finland in 1972 had the same
>> extent and magnitude of the 2003 European heat wave that is
>> considered the second strongest heat wave since 1950.
>>
>> The findings are published today, 27th November 2015, in the journal
>> Environmental Research Letters.
>>
>> The researchers have also shown that heat waves are likely to
>> increase both in severity and number during the next two decades.
 
The weather can not be accurately predicted 5 days out; two decades
is pure fantasy.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 19:38 -0600
  Re: New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-27 01:54 +0000
    Re: New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-12-03 04:40 -0500

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