Category Archives: hydrology

CBRA is awesome!

Posted on 15 August 2019 by ecoquant

Hat tip to Professor Rob Young and Audubon for a great newsfilm.

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“Climate Science for Climate Activists” is a wrap

Posted on 6 August 2019 by ecoquant

The class “Climate Science for Climate Activists” I have taught for the last 6 or so weeks is now completed. The slides are available here.

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Procrustes tangent distance is better than SNCD

Posted on 24 February 2019 by ecoquant

I’ve written two posts here on using a Symmetrized Normalized Compression Divergence or SNCD for comparing time series. One introduced the SNCD and described its relationship to compression distance, and the other applied the SNCD to clustering days at a … Continue reading →

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Stream flow and P-splines: Using built-in estimates for smoothing

Posted on 28 January 2019 by ecoquant

Mother Brook in Dedham Massachusetts was the first man-made canal in the United States. Dug in 1639, it connects the Charles River at Dedham, to the Neponset River in the Hyde Park section of Boston. It was originally an important … Continue reading →

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A look at an electricity consumption series using SNCDs for clustering

Posted on 11 January 2019 by ecoquant

(Slightly amended with code and data link, 12th January 2019.) Prediction of electrical load demand or, in other words, electrical energy consumption is important for the proper operation of electrical grids, at all scales. RTOs and ISOs forecast demand based … Continue reading →

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This flooding can’t be stopped. What about the rest?

Posted on 17 June 2018 by ecoquant

Tamino is writing about this subject, too. That entirely makes complete sense as it is the biggest geophysical and environmental story out there right now. I’ve included an update at this post’s end discussing the possible economic impacts. It’s been … Continue reading →

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Sidney, NY: The lead example of how the USA will deal with future coastal and riverine flooding?

Posted on 7 May 2018 by ecoquant

From Bloomberg, the story of Sidney, NY, not that far from where I used to live in Endicott, NY. More than 400 homes and businesses ended up underwater in Sidney, affecting more than 2,000 people. It was months before Spry … Continue reading →

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Boston, and nearby, 2nd March 2018

Posted on 2 March 2018 by ecoquant

That’s Atlantic Avenue near the Aquarium. That’s Essex, in Cape Ann. That’s the Sargent’s Wharf parking lot. That’s is where General Electric wants to build their new headquarters (!). That’s Columbus Park, near the Aquarium. That’s Neponset Circle. That’s Plymouth … Continue reading →

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Miami Beach

Posted on 15 December 2017 by ecoquant

(Hat tip to Yale Climate Connections)

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Disaster planning in a new climate, inland from the coasts

Posted on 25 September 2017 by ecoquant

See Glynis Board’s “The New Normal: Super Storms Highlight Importance Of Disaster Planning”.

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A lesson for Boston

Posted on 13 September 2017 by ecoquant

And, from the Harvard Business Review: There was a time a decade or two ago when society could have made a choice to write off our massive investment in a fossil fuel-based economy and begin a policy driven shift towards … Continue reading →

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Dr James Hansen is great

Posted on 1 September 2017 by ecoquant
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Yes, I will be marching for Science in Boston

Posted on 8 March 2017 by ecoquant

Like many, including Eli Rabett, I will be marching for Science in April, on Earth Day. My march will be part of the Boston march. Why? Because Science has been and is my life, and it always has been, and … Continue reading →

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NCAR reports on a teleconnection between the Pacific and continental USA

Posted on 22 December 2016 by ecoquant

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (“NCAR”) reports on a newly substantiated teleconnection between positive sea surface temperature anomalies (“SSTA”) in the Pacific and the temperatures over the continental United States (“CONUS”) 50 days later. A teleconnection is: A linkage … Continue reading →

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Obviously, sea level rise and climate change are a hoax …

Posted on 16 November 2016 by ecoquant

(Click on image to see a larger picture, and use browser Back Button to return to blog.) The seawater in that parking lot is a foot deep. People can deny what’s happening in any of several varied ways. They can … Continue reading →

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On failing to learn important lessons

Posted on 27 October 2016 by ecoquant

As previously posted here, people along coasts and their governments, are failing to learn the lessons of both climate-induced sea level rise, and storms like Extratropical Sandy. Now, it’s startlingly clear how ignorant people are of these necessary lessons. The … Continue reading →

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Just a lil’ bit o’ a drought … Nothing to be alarmed about … (!)

Posted on 21 September 2016 by ecoquant
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“Sharon’s Water Problem” (by Paul Lauenstein)

Posted on 29 August 2016 by ecoquant

(Click on image to see a bigger version of this figure. Use your browser Back Button to return to this blog.) The town of Sharon, MA, has a water problem. Click on the link and see Paul’s presentation about it. … Continue reading →

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