Category: News - Page 5

An electric tug vehicle sits in front of the nose of a large white and blue aircraft.

February 19, 2024

Sustainable towing equipment for the FAAM Airborne Laboratory

The FAAM Airborne Laboratory now has an electric-powered aircraft tug to reduce carbon emissions from the research facility’s operation.

#Environmental Sustainability #FAAM Airborne Laboratory

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February 15, 2024

Summer of science: Placement scheme for young people

For the third year running, the National Centre for Atmospheric Science will be offering inspirational summer placements for young people across the UK.

#Equality Diversity and Inclusion #Public Engagement

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February 14, 2024

How will El Niño affect 2024?

Find out what impact El Niño had on the record-breaking temperatures recorded in 2023, and whether more temperature records will be broken in 2024.

#Climate and High-impact Weather

Green box with white writing that says LGBT+ History Month

February 13, 2024

10 ways to create an inclusive science community for LGBT+ people

For our staff community and network of colleagues, we have listed 10 ways you can create a more LGBT+ inclusive research environment.

#Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Person wearing glasses and dark blue shirt stands outside looking towards the sky. They stand with a silver laptop in their hands.

February 9, 2024

8 month stretch of unprecedented global temperature highs

January 2024 has been confirmed as the warmest on record globally. NCAS climate scientists explain the unprecedented global climate conditions.

#Climate and High-impact Weather #Climate Projections #Long-term Global Change

Person with long hair wearing high visibility jacket sits in a passenger seat in a white van, holding a laptop.

February 6, 2024

Supporting skills for life with apprenticeships in atmospheric science

Supporting apprenticeships is an important part of providing alternate routes into the environmental science sector.

#Equality Diversity and Inclusion

A lit wood burner stove inside a protective metal unit, inside a research laboratory

February 1, 2024

Stove in a lab – scientists measure air pollution from domestic wood burners

Atmospheric chemists are using a unique test facility to quantify the gases and aerosols that come from stoves in people’s homes.

#Air Pollution #Air Pollution in Urban Areas

Team of people wearing yellow jackets stand on a small black powerboat, they are looking at white sheets of ice in the ocean.

January 31, 2024

“Our oceans are sounding an alarm” as the world warms

Researchers have used climate models to show how 2023’s extreme ocean conditions are a glimpse into the future.

#Climate and High-impact Weather #Long-term Global Change

A man looks towards two computer screens with weather forecasting information on them. Two men stand in the background.

January 29, 2024

Global science team joins forces to forecast severe storms in Southern Africa

Weather scientists test out short-term forecasts with urban communities in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia.

#Climate and High-impact Weather

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January 24, 2024

Solar energy to power air pollution research

A solar energy system has been installed to power NCAS' atmospheric chemistry laboratories.

#Air Pollution #Environmental Sustainability

Underside of a blue aircraft wing, above clouds, with a small shadow of the aircraft cast onto the clouds below, with a pastel coloured circular rainbow around the shadow - known as a halo.

January 16, 2024

Research Runway: Understanding how Earth’s electric fields affect clouds and aerosols

Scientists use research aircraft to better understand how the Earth’s natural electric fields affect clouds and aerosols in the atmosphere.

#Clouds and Aerosols #FAAM Airborne Laboratory

A large wave splashes upwards. The sea water is white and brown. There is a rocky headland in the distance, with trees and a white house. There are several bollards in the foreground.

January 11, 2024

UK’s 2023-24 storm season: What causes storms and are they getting worse?

We asked researchers at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science to explain named storms and the recent stormy weather.

#Climate and High-impact Weather