Tag: extreme weather
December 5, 2024
Quantifying Chaos
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics is building global models of Earth’s past to help the insurance industry prepare for the future.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2024
Extreme El Niño Events Likely to Increase as World Warms
The most recent ice age peaked around 20,000 years ago and was marked by extensive glaciation and dramatic climate shifts that reshaped Earth’s oceans, landscapes,…
Read MoreJune 2, 2015
UT Austin Devises New Way to Predict Summer Drought
This spring ranks in the top ten when it comes to rain. The Austin area is more than six inches above normal. But what does…
Read MoreMarch 17, 2015
CO2 Increase Can Intensify Future Droughts in Tropics, Study Suggests
AUSTIN, Texas — A new study suggests that increases in atmospheric CO2 could intensify extreme droughts in tropical and subtropical regions — such as Australia, the…
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2014
Hi-tech Tools Can Better Predict Droughts, Flood
In 2012, professor Zong-Liang Yang was in the Netherlands speaking at a workshop on extreme weather. It was the year after the worst recorded single-year…
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2014
How Advances in Tech and Research Could Help Battle Future Drought
UT Professor Zong-Liang Yang was at a conference on extreme weather in the Netherlands. It was 2012, just one year after the worst single-year drought in…
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