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IPRC News
April 16, 2008
 Overlayed on the grand
ocean gyres are mysterious currents flowing in an alternating east-west
pattern,
according to analyses of direct ocean observations, satellite images and computer models
conducted by IPRC' s
Nikolai Maximenko,
Oleg
Melnicheko, and their colleagues
Peter Niiler and
Hideharu Sasaki (read more:
press release,
New Scientist,
full article,
Star
Bulletin, other
coverage).
March 12, 2008
The Gulf Stream anchors a precipitation band with upward motions and
cloud formations that can reach 7 miles high. The study by a joint
Japan-US team, which includes IPRC's
Shang-Ping Xie
and Justin Small, is published as the
cover article in the March 13 issue of Nature.(read more in:Nature;
IPRCrelease;
NewScientist; Science
Centric;
Yahoo;
diePresse;
physorg.com;
Yomiuri Shimbun;
Kyodo News Agency)
February 12, 2008
A study spearheaded by IPRC's
Tangdong Qu reveals that the South Pacific subtropical cell, a sparsely charted
circulation, contributes
significantly more than suspected to the formation of water layers in
the equatorial Pacific El Nino region. This work, Subduction of South
Pacific Waters, is featured by the American Geophysical Union in the January
Highlights.
(read
more)
January, 29, 2008
High Performance Computing at UH, the
newsletter of the UH Information Technology Services, names
Axel Timmermann "Researcher of the Month." Timmermann teaches numerical
modeling, climate modeling, and dynamical paleoceanography.
(read more)
January 9, 2008
The high sea wind maps developed by Takeaki Sampe and Shang-Ping Xie
appear in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society.
(read more)
January 9, 2008
Axel Timmermann participated in a Native America Calling talk show on
global warming and how it may affect Native peoples around the world.
(hear
broadcast)
December 5, 2007
The book
High Resolution Numerical Modelling of
the Atmosphere and Ocean edited
by IPRC's Kevin Hamilton and his colleague Dr. Wataru Ohfuchi, group
leader at the JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, has just been
released by Springer Verlag
(read more).
 December
4, 2007
Rapid environmental changes befell the Pacific Islands around A.D. 1300,
according to evidence presented at the workshop “Climatic Changes in
the Last 1500 Years: Their Impact on Pacific Islands,” recently hosted
by the IPRC at the East-West Center. Were these changes caused by
climate change or by human activities? (read
more in report;
in Raising Islands)
December 3, 2007
An exchange program for both faculty and
graduate students is planned between the International Pacific Research
Center (IPRC)/Meteorology Department and National Taiwan University (read
more in
in news release
in Honolulu Advertiser).
 Al Gore,
the IPCC, and the IPRC
October 17, 2007
IPRC's founding is partly
due to a 1997 meeting between then US Vice
President Al Gore, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Japan's Prime Minister Hashimoto.
IPRC has contributed in several ways to the IPCC, which shares the Prize
(read news release).
September 27, 2007
Greater heating from the sun during Antarctic
spring very likely triggered the end to the last ice age in the Southern
Hemisphere according to a new study published in Science. The
study, co-authored by IPRC's
Axel Timmermann, changes current thinking on
last ice age ending. (read more in
Honolulu Advertiser;
Honolulu Star Bulletin;
sciencemag;
sciencedaily,
news release)
August 15, 2007
IPRC's
Kevin Hamilton,
Shang-Ping Xie, and
H. Annamalai talk with Jay Fidell on the HPR
ThinkTech show
about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and what the
findings mean for climate globally and for Hawaii.
(click for
podcast
of radio broadcast; for podcast
of aftershow; for large
image, picture.)
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