Climate Scenarios: A Florida-Centric View

COAPS assistant professor Vasu Misra is the principal author on this new white paper discussing climate scenarios for Florida. Mark Powell, a NOAA scientist stationed at COAPS, is a contributing author.

On Air: Environmental Minute

The natural world explained in 1-minute segments by experts from FSU!

This week's question:
What are greenhouse gases, and how do they warm our planet?
Answered by Dr. Robert Ellingson, Professor of Meteorology at the Florida State University.

COAPS Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Proves Successful Again

Animation: The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes (credit: NOAA).

The forecast called for 17 named tropical storms, including 9 hurricanes. The observed number of tropical storms in the Atlantic during the 2011 season was 19, 18 of which were named, and 7 of which were hurricanes.

Other News

• La Niña expected to affect Cotton Belt climate in 2012 (Southwest Farm Press)
• Why is it so cold in Tallahassee? (FSU Family Connection)
• COAPS-led Deep-C Consortium is FSU's #3 story of 2011
• COAPS alum profile: Nick Heath (FSU COAS Spectrum)
• New partnership with South Korean modeling group
  On November 18, 2011, representatives from FSU and South Korea's Next Generation Model Development Center signed an agreement to collaborate on numerical weather prediction modeling and related fields and to establish relations between the two institutions. For more information, contact Steve Cocke.
• Aiding conservation and management of Florida's biodiversity
  COAPS scientists Vasu Misra and Lydia Stefanova are part of a USGS project titled "A Land of Flowers on a Latitude of Deserts: Aiding Conservation and Management of Florida’s Biodiversity." The project is featured in a new USGS fact sheet.
• Winter 2011/2012 COAPS newsletter