George Varlas

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Which are the dynamical mechanisms of Junge Layer impact on Climate Change?

While searching for cosmic dust and debris from nuclear bomb tests, Christian Junge discovered in 1960 a layer of microscopic aerosol particles between the tropopause and about 18 miles (30 km)...

08 December 2016 6,524 4 View

What is the impact of the interaction between oceans and greenhouse gases on the climate change? What will be the climate forcings in the future?

Air-sea gas exchange is a physio-chemical process, primarily controlled by the air-sea difference in gas concentrations and the exchange coefficient, which determines how quickly a molecule of gas...

02 December 2015 9,934 11 View

Is a rise in sea level around the Antarctica able to affect Mediterranean Sea?

The ice around the edge of Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, potentially unlocking metres of sea-level rise in the long-term, researchers have warned. A team of US scientists...

27 March 2015 8,794 7 View

Which combination of parameterization schemes in WRF-ARW model is the best to study storms?

In ARW the default schemes in namelist.input for e.g. physics are: mp_physics = 3, 3, 3, ra_lw_physics = 1, 1, 1, ra_sw_physics = 1, 1, 1, radt = 30, 30, 30, sf_sfclay_physics = 1, 1,...

11 December 2014 2,418 3 View

Will we be able to use smartphone sensed data for assimilation in weather models or in other assimilation systems such as road traffic models?

Surface Pressure Observations from Smartphones. A Potential Revolution for High-Resolution Weather Prediction? http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00188.1 An adaptive observation...

11 July 2014 7,719 1 View

Is the WRF-Hydro model useful to predict floods?

The WRF-Hydro system was originally designed as a model coupling framework designed to facilitate easier coupling between the Weather Research and Forecasting model and components of terrestrial...

25 June 2014 2,344 16 View

Is there any Post-Processing tool for geographic transformation from Lambert Conformal Conic projection used in WRF-ARW to Lat-Lon?

I want to make geographic transformation of WRF-ARW results to lat-lon projection like with UPP tool of WRF-NMM. I search for linux scripts or tools similar to UPP.

17 June 2014 2,699 8 View

What is the role of the wave age and sea spray on a possible decrease of Charnock parameter under gale-force winds?

Charnock parameter is approximately saturated under high wind speeds.Will Charnock parameter be decreased under gale-force winds? What is the role of the wave age and sea spray on this possible...

16 June 2014 8,012 2 View

As far as global warming is concerned, is the ocean warming leading to atmospheric warming or the opposite?

A warmer ocean can exclude significant amount of CO2 to the atmosphere. It indicates a positive forcing factor to the global warming scenarios.

11 June 2014 730 17 View

How can I plot gridded data from WRF model to google maps in any projection?

Related to Google API tools.

11 June 2014 8,566 4 View

How MATLAB can open netcdf, grib1 and grib2 files?

Similarly to NCL, are there simple routines opening netcdf, grib1, and grib2 files in MATLAB?

10 June 2014 6,409 5 View

Why the Mesoscale Convective System (9 June 2014) over northern France, Belgium, Netherlands and northwestern Germany was too strong?

A mesoscale convective system (MCS) is a complex of thunderstorms that becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms but smaller than extratropical cyclones, and normally...

10 June 2014 7,570 14 View

How the Mpemba effect is explained?

The Mpemba effect, named after Erasto Mpemba, is the observation that, in some circumstances, warmer water can freeze faster than colder water. Although there is evidence of the effect, there is...

09 June 2014 3,023 3 View