Earth's beautiful glow Teaching undergrad spectroscopy was much about theory, with a bit of lab practical, and little on critical applications. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) were covered in terms of line densities, atmospheric residence times and global warming potential (GWP), but no depth of analysis of radiative forcing, the key driver of warming and climate change. Shame on me! So here goes with the recipe for turning those age old infrared (IR) transmission spectra of CO 2 (c

The aerosol layer: courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center STS043-22-12 [1] Aerosols have had a...

The climate pendulum As a first play with python on a mobile app, I was impressed by the seemless install, ease of coding, excution and...

Footprints of the world wide web So the quick dive into shedding light on the dark "slide" (eek) of the webpage in pt I, becomes a full...

Quick thoughts on the design of this website. What are the energy footprints of the components that make and deliver the webpage. It's by...

Sciart of time tinted of plasmofluidic flow From the coffee ring left on the desk, the tears of wine clinging from your glass of good vintage, the swirling rainbows patterning a bubble surface, the foam topped beer [1-4] ; you might ask, why the ring, the tears, the swirls, the head? Mundane matters perhaps, but the Marangoni effect that gives rise to these phenomana plays an important role in many industrial processes, modern tenchnologies and life itself. From the efficient

Solexa logo commissioned early '00 In 1998, Solexa sequencing emerged at the University of Cambridge from pioneering work of Sir Shankar...