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Brian Magi
brian dot magi at charlotte dot edu
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
McEniry 331
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001Meta
Author Archives: Brian Magi
AMS Student Assistantship
Daniel Cunningham received the Student Assistantship award for AMS 2013 in January. so he’ll get room and board in a hotel right next to the conference for the whole week of the conference. This is in addition to his presentation … Continue reading
Interdisciplinary speaker series
Since I’m on the committee that is organizing our department Speaker Series, I thought I’d pass along the announcement of the upcoming speakers. 3 in the fall semester, but 6 or 7 in the spring. one of our committee goals … Continue reading
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Tagged GES, interdisciplinary research, speaker series
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Remembering the warmth with temporal averaging
It’s been cool in North Carolina and in Charlotte in August and September 2012, as I talked about on one of my posts. In that post, I said that if you really want to know whether the temperatures you are … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer
Tagged global warming, NCDC, Record warmth, spatiotemporal analysis, USA
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Cool in North Carolina, but not the USA
Between all the various climate excitement in the news – like record-low Arctic sea ice – temperature measurements continue to be collected. A really great webpage to actually examine the temperature data is at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, global warming, north carolina, Record warmth, spatiotemporal analysis, USA
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Presentations at AMS 2013
Both Daniel and I will be travelling to Austin Texas for the 2013 American Meteorological Society meeting. Thousands of students and scientists attend this meeting to discuss topics ranging from weather forecasting to climate modeling to air quality. My research … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, fire, lightning, student research
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Changes to Global Environmental Change webpage
just a few notes about the changes to my teaching webpage for my Global Environmental Change (ESCI 3000 this semester – Fall 2012, expected to be ESCI 3101 by Fall 2013) webpage. i updated just about everything there so the … Continue reading
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Tagged GES, global environmental change, global warming, teaching
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More lightning and fire research
Daniel Cunningham will continue his research from the CRS program during the 2012-13 academic year with Dr Magi in the form of Independent Study. He presented a poster at the CRS Symposium on 25 July 2012 and discussed his research … Continue reading
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Tagged charlotte research scholars, fire, lightning, student research
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Fire seasonality paper published in Biogeosciences
We had some very useful suggestions by reviewers which prompted revisions that I think better emphasized the methods and results. The paper is now officially published in Biogeosciences in html or as a pdf.
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Tagged climate-fire interactions, fire, fire seasonality, human-fire interactions, publications
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Examining Geospatial Correlations in Lightning Frequency
Cross posted from Charlotte Research Scholars blog. The goal of our research this summer is to explore the possible correlations between lightning frequencies below 40˚N and above 40˚N in the boreal regions of Canada. We are using 15 years of … Continue reading
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Charlotte Research Scholars 2012
Daniel Cunningham (junior in Meteorology BSc program) is one of the 50 UNC Charlotte undergraduates selected from a pool of over 170 applicants to receive funding for summer research from the inaugural Charlotte Research Scholars (CRS) program, sponsored by UNC … Continue reading
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