A Concerning Change Is Happening to Earth's Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal [Science Alert, May 2022]

Title:

A Concerning Change Is Happening to Earth's Water Cycle, Satellite Data Reveal 

 

Author:

Carly Cassella

 

Published:

Science Alert, 2 May 2022

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-water-cycle-is-accelerating-and-it-s-cause-for-great-concern

 

From the article:

Climate change is throwing Earth's water cycle severely out of whack. According to new satellite data, freshwaters are growing fresher and salt waters are growing saltier at an increasingly rapid rate all around the world. If this pattern continues, it will turbocharge rainstorms.

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Olmedo, E., Turiel, A., González-Gambau, V. et al. Increasing stratification as observed by satellite sea surface salinity measurements. Sci Rep 12, 6279 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10265-1

Powers of qualitative research - Old-fashioned qualitative research methods are still powerful in answering the most emergent climate questions we are faced with [Nature Climate Change, September 2021]

Title:

Powers of qualitative research

Published:

Nature Climate Change, 11, 717 (1 September 2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01153-z

From the editorial:

In natural and social science studies, quantitative methods emphasizing numbers and statistical or numerical models are becoming the dominant approach, and climate change research is no exception. In recent years, the scholarly community has witnessed a rapid rise in unprecedented data access and computational approaches. However, we should not ignore the powers of qualitative methods. Qualitative methods usually collect information through interviews and participant observation and from archival text. Rather than using large-scale datasets with common dimensions, they focus on unique cases and mechanisms. In particular, they are inimitable when investigating underlying causes and data that are hard to measure or scarce.