By Guy Coulson I recently attended the first data meeting of the goSouth programme, held at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig. Which seems like a good opportunity for an update on progress of the programme. goSouth is an umbrella name...
By Ian Longley Outside our major centres, New Zealand is a country of many small towns separated by long drives. The harder somewhere is to get to, the more likely it is tucked away in a valley or basin, and the more likely it is to rely on wood for home heating. How...
By: Guy Coulson Current climate models misrepresent cloud formation over the Southern Ocean causing mismatches between models and satellite observations. These errors are important because too much sunlight reaches the ocean surface in simulations, leading to...
By: Ian Longley In February 2023 floods following Cyclone Gabrielle dumped 20 million tonnes of silt across 4 productive farming valleys in New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay. As recovery operations disturbed the silt dense clouds of dust posed a new hazard that lingered for...