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We begin this month's issue with the first in a series of papers re‐examining one aspect associated with the sinking of the Titanic . In ‘ Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current’ on p. 119, Mila Zinkova presents an excellent...

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spelling crwiley:10.1002/wea.3507 2024-06-02T08:02:51+00:00 In this issue of Weather Galvin, Jim 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.3507 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fwea.3507 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wea.3507 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Weather volume 74, issue 4 ISSN 0043-1656 1477-8696 journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3507 2024-05-03T11:04:34Z We begin this month's issue with the first in a series of papers re‐examining one aspect associated with the sinking of the Titanic . In ‘ Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current’ on p. 119, Mila Zinkova presents an excellent review of the meteorology of visibility over cold waters and the areas where mixing occurs. At the beginning of 2019, radar used operationally for weather forecasting and hydrology passed a significant anniversary in the United Kingdom. On p. 128, the short paper ‘Radar for hydrological forecasting in the UK 50 years on’ describes the development and use of this essential tool. Chris Collier was involved in much of this development and his review reveals the importance of the project and its value. On p. 130, we publish the last of the papers marking the cold weather and snow of February and March 2018, the others the content of the Special Issue of March 2019. Bill Pike and his co‐authors kept records of the snow cover and other weather factors during the event in Berkshire, Suffolk and Kent. These are reproduced in ‘Weather diaries during the easterlies of February and March 2018’. An important question that is often raised in this period of anthropogenic warming is the effect of carbon dioxide on temperature. ‘Climate sensitivity: how much warming results from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 )?’, the latest in our Climate‐change shorts series, provides an answer to this rather complex question and one that we all need to understand. Many readers will know that tropical meteorology is frequently associated with thunderstorms, but these storms vary in their frequency by area and time of year, as revealed by Omvir Singh and Pankaj Bhardwaj in ‘Spatial and temporal variations in the frequency of thunderstorm days over India’ on p. 138. The replacement of instruments always presents a challenge – not least, thermometers, the readings from which form the longest climatic series in the world. Almost all instruments ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Wiley Online Library Arctic Collier ENVELOPE(-61.864,-61.864,-70.221,-70.221) Weather 74 4
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description We begin this month's issue with the first in a series of papers re‐examining one aspect associated with the sinking of the Titanic . In ‘ Titanic's mirage, part 1: The enigma of the Arctic High and a cold‐water tongue of the Labrador Current’ on p. 119, Mila Zinkova presents an excellent review of the meteorology of visibility over cold waters and the areas where mixing occurs. At the beginning of 2019, radar used operationally for weather forecasting and hydrology passed a significant anniversary in the United Kingdom. On p. 128, the short paper ‘Radar for hydrological forecasting in the UK 50 years on’ describes the development and use of this essential tool. Chris Collier was involved in much of this development and his review reveals the importance of the project and its value. On p. 130, we publish the last of the papers marking the cold weather and snow of February and March 2018, the others the content of the Special Issue of March 2019. Bill Pike and his co‐authors kept records of the snow cover and other weather factors during the event in Berkshire, Suffolk and Kent. These are reproduced in ‘Weather diaries during the easterlies of February and March 2018’. An important question that is often raised in this period of anthropogenic warming is the effect of carbon dioxide on temperature. ‘Climate sensitivity: how much warming results from increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 )?’, the latest in our Climate‐change shorts series, provides an answer to this rather complex question and one that we all need to understand. Many readers will know that tropical meteorology is frequently associated with thunderstorms, but these storms vary in their frequency by area and time of year, as revealed by Omvir Singh and Pankaj Bhardwaj in ‘Spatial and temporal variations in the frequency of thunderstorm days over India’ on p. 138. The replacement of instruments always presents a challenge – not least, thermometers, the readings from which form the longest climatic series in the world. Almost all instruments ...
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