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Brian Magi
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Author Archives: Brian Magi
Beijing air quality and agricultural fires
As I browsed through my favorite twitter feeds which includes @BeijingAir and the other US Embassies, I saw there was some really really poor air quality in Beijing. The US Embassies in China tweet particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentrations in … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged air quality, data analysis, data visualization, fire, fire seasonality, NASA, publications, twitter
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The Climate Change Speech transcript and video
Here’s an update from my post yesterday about the Climate Change Speech. Link to the video on Youtube via whitehouse.gov. The video is downloadable (mp4) so you can show students how a speech embodies leadership on an issue that will, … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged climate, global environmental change, global warming, quotes, USA
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President Obama takes the offensive on climate change
Wow. What a speech this afternoon by President Obama on the Georgetown University campus – and a beautiful follow up to his Inaugural Address in January and his State of the Union speech shortly thereafter – noting one satire piece … Continue reading
Posted in Group News
Tagged climate, global environmental change, global warming, impacts, USA
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Interactive USA wildfire map from Climate Central
Amazing what a team of scientists, techs, and a pile of data will bring you. I tried to embed a great map interface by the group at Climate Central here, but it didn’t work so here’s a screenshot of the … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, lightning, USA
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May 2013 climate in North Carolina and the world
With global warming and all of the impacts, it’s very important to constantly consider the question of time and space scales. May 2013 is a good example for those of us living in the Southeastern USA or North Carolina. Namely, … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged climate, data analysis, data visualization, global environmental change, global warming, NCDC, NOAA, north carolina, USA
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Coffee is the greatest and healthiest drink on the planet
Ok, maybe this article/post doesn’t exactly say what I chose to title this. But I like coffee, so all my scientific training goes out the window and I just nod at every self-reinforcing statement in that article. I’ll admit that … Continue reading
Posted in Group News
Tagged coffee
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Twitter and science
I’ve been starting to use twitter – mainly to supplement my research interests. I have zero confidence in facebook as a useful platform for anything remotely scientific or supportive of science, but twitter somehow seems different. The first twitter account … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged air quality, climate, interdisciplinary research, teaching, twitter
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Global carbon emissions increased in 2012
Unlike the somewhat misleadingly rosy picture painted by President Obama about (USA) carbon emissions in his Inaugural Address and his State of the Union speech in 2013, the global carbon emissions are what matter. So if the USA continues to … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged carbon, climate, global environmental change, USA
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Bring on double-blind peer review
My peer-reviewed publication record isn’t long yet, but I have participated in the anonymous peer-review process in a number of different scientific journals. I’ve read some great science that I thought was ready to be published only to see it … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged peer review, publications
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CO2 trends from around the world
Time series are profilic in climate science. This is a dataset that shows the how a measurement changes over some period of time. The best known in our world is the global warming time series displayed as the globally-averaged surface … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged CO2, data visualization, global warming, NOAA, Scripps, spatiotemporal analysis
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