Meteorology (WEATHER & CLIMATE) Encore with Dr. Marshall Shepherd
Bomb cyclones! Polar vortices! Atmospheric rivers! And rained out barbecues. One of the world’s leading Meteorologists, Dr. Marshall Shepherd – a former NASA scientist and current Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia – is here to field a downpour of questions. We chat about percentages in forecasts, hail, sleet, storm chasing, heatwaves, fluid dynamics, TV weather people, climate change delayism and his favorite weather-themed movies. Also: what not to do with a weather balloon.
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A donation went to the Institute for Sustainable Communities
Links to things we discussed:
Dr. Marshall Shepherd’s kids weather book, “Dr. Fred's Weather Watch”
Do You Know Your Carbon Dioxide Birth Number?
Determining your carbon number via Nature.org
Coriolis Effect | National Geographic
The Coriolis Effect and Draining Water: Tested with one container on 3 continents.
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes
“Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes” disputed via Snopes
Video: 1989 Live World Series Quake coverage
Video: 7.1 Earthquake hits during Dodgers/Padres game 7/5/19
Where exactly is the Earth’s water?
Lights... Camera... Climate! Weather Geeks episode about movies
Red Sky At Night … Any Truth To It?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons Explained
Rough map of hurricane/typhoon/cyclone terminology
Why snowstorms are even worse with global warming
What is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)?
Don't Look Up’s climate action website
Climate adaptation, mitigation, and urban design
Global Warming’s Six Americas, September 2021 results via Yale
Take The Six Americas Survey (SASSY), a short, four-question online quiz about climate concern
More on wet-bulb globe temperature measurements from Weather.gov
Earth Storm on Netflix (see his Hurricane episode)
1989 World Series Quake Broadcast with Al Michaels
Quasigeostrophic approximation
How many balloons to float what?
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Snow Hydrology (SNOW/AVALANCHES)
Spesh Ep: Drawdown Design Project
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