2003 Climate Change Wind 
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2012
Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Night-time land surface temperature differences near wind farms between 2010 and 2013. Nature Climate Change. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2020
The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. Past attempts to measure this effect from ships had focused on places where the wind blows across the shipping lane, in order to compare the “clean” area upwind with the “polluted” area downstream.
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Cars That Think
AUGUST 5, 2023
It’s –27 °C, dipping below –40 °C with wind chill—well below the operating temperature of most of the commercial equipment we brought for this expedition. Although neither ice sheet is expected to melt completely anytime soon, their incredible scale makes even small changes consequential for the future of our planet.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2009
But in a year that has seen both a worsening recession and state budget crisis, residents’ support for urgent action on climate change has slipped and a partisan divide on the issue has widened. But in the current economic climate their support has dropped a notch. Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of PPIC. Air quality.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2009
In the summer, wind and ocean currents cause some of the ice naturally to flow out of the Arctic, while much of it melts in place. In 2003, 62% of the Arctic’s total ice volume was stored in multi-year ice, with 38% stored in first-year seasonal ice. Yi (2009) Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008.
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2010
F), last measured in 2003, is the warmest the lake has been for a millennium and a half. The lake is highly stratified and depends on wind to churn the waters and send nutrients from the depths toward the surface as food for algae, which supports the entire food web of the lake. —Andrew Cohen.
Cars That Think
MAY 25, 2025
He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils down to environmental and climate-change awareness. Bertrand Piccard, left, and Prince Albert of Monaco, right, take off during the 25th International Hot Air Balloon week, in Chateau dOex, Switzerland, in 2003.
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