CLIMATE: Antarctic and Greenland Climate Changes

GRANTISM: An ExcelTM model for Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet response to climate changes

Over the last decades, the response of large ice sheets on Earth, such as the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, to changes in climate has been successfully simulated with large-scale numerical ice-sheet models. Since these models are highly sophisticated, they are only applicable on the scientific level as they demand a large amount of CPU time. Based on similar physics, a computationally fas...

Greenland—Antarctic phase relations and millennial time-scale climate fluctuations in the Greenland ice-cores

The Greenland (GRIP/GISP2) and Antarctic (Byrd) ice-cores are examined in the frequency domain, with the data synchronized using common methane variations. Using conventional time-series analysis, a simple picture emerges: there is low-frequency (periods longer than about 10 kyr) coherence between the two records, consistent with a simple time delay, Antarctica leading by 1– 2 kyr: Two geograph...

Climate changes and emerging fungal infections

Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has shown not only resistance to most anti-fungal drugs but also thermo-tolerance to temperatures higher than the mammalian’s body temperature. Although it has been only a decade since the fungus was identified, its spread of infections has been rapid and quasi-epidemics have been reported. Co-occurrences of the fungus infecti...

Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment

The survey of linkage between climate changes and desertification using extreme climate index software

Climate is the most important factor which control desertification .In order to detect climate changes in desert zones, time trend analysis is applied to extreme indices in Kashan station using extreme climate index software (ECIS). Results show significant trends in extreme indices during the past decade 1995-2004 and the pronounced warming is associated with a negative trend in cold extremes....