Archive for August, 2012
Identi.ca Weekly Updates for 2012-08-17
- published a #paper Effects of non-Gaussian #copula based hydraulic conductivity fields on macrodispersion. http://t.co/m7NfmJGV #science #
- Outstanding Open Questions in Geoscience – a draft http://t.co/GUa89gRh #
- Interesting #openaccess #textbook on #statistics #timeseries #forecasting http://t.co/cZvYloTQ #
- Interesse an #Garten #Tisch mit Stühlen in #Stuttgart und Umgebung? — http://t.co/ts4kYfvt #
- On top of world's highest #mountain sediments! http://t.co/LslJFT2v #
- Happy Birthday Bob Dylan! http://t.co/ZOWAvbpt #
- #Ärzte verstehen #Krebs #Statistik nicht: http://t.co/aN8hevaC #
- #Stuttgart #liest ein Buch: "Sturmflut" – Ausstellung zum Thema im Rathaus #sleb http://t.co/1zMsZVsk #
- After 244 years, encyclopedia britannica stops the presses – http://t.co/aORnEScv #
- #statistics #probability Game theory in current movie "hunger games" http://t.co/iOcxpwfj #
- #climbing Everest and the three highest #mountains of each continent to #help and #improve #global #water situation: http://t.co/sPFGShAq #
- Great #photos on #water and #earth http://t.co/4TSciIYS #
- Hillary Clinton's World Water Day Remarks and the U.S. Water Partnership http://t.co/XF0bp2Tv #
- #Germany tries to mediate in central-Asian #water #conflicts: (German news) http://t.co/rmlA6qPm #
- at #python workshop http://t.co/pbnwlfav (via @shackspace) #
- Yves Klett, colleague at #university of #stuttgart (IFB) talks on uses of #mathematica as an #engineer http://t.co/2bYJrqSk #
- some #open #data in Germany: http://t.co/lCXCq2Sk #
- Only a #model A 25-year retrospective on the finite element method #FEM http://t.co/scgiWuQq” #
- #ESRI suggestions regarding #learning #python for #ArcGIS http://t.co/nk0SpYRc #
- crowd source your #science hire a #lab if you don't have one http://t.co/lnrbsyky #
- Applied #hydromechanics in #GoogleEarth Phase Interference along a coastline, for example. http://t.co/c2v778Up #
- cool way to explore #SanFrancisco http://t.co/73nFrXh2 #
Charts of Extremes
Two charts caught my eye during the last two days. From a statistical viewpoint, both show extreme events.
The first chart shows monthly temperature anomalies (deviance from long term mean) for 117 years worth of temperature data for the U.S. Since march, this year has been the hottest on record, and not by a slim margin. Read the full post at newscientist.com
Photo by newscientist.org / NOAA
The second chart relates to arctic sea ice extent. The spring did not start out in an extreme way. There was a comparatively large area covered by sea ice in April / May. The area shrunk, however, and since a couple of days, the areal extent of sea ice compared to this time in previous years, is the smallest. The full post with more charts is available at realclimate.org
Photo by realclimate.org / IARC-JAXA