climate change

KAUST climate research named finalist for ADIA Lab Climate Data Sciences Award

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KAUST team develops breakthrough method for wind data generation, earning finalist spot for ADIA Lab’s climate science award.

Visualizing a real change: CEMSE-held exhibition "State of Flux" opens new frontiers in information visualization for science

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Climate change is affecting the world drastically. Contrasting perceptions look at it as either a direct effect of human carelessness or a natural calamity. Whatever the case, prompting action for preventing or mitigating its effects lies on effective and easy-to-understand communication.

Pop stats for big geodata

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A universal high-performance computing interface allows popular statistical tools to run efficiently on large geospatial datasets.

Heatwave model shows it is hotter in more places, more often

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New modeling shows that heatwaves across Europe have increased in both frequency and spatial extent over the past century.

Getting to the bottom of deadly weather

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Cold still causes far more deaths than heat in India. A study of the correlation between temperature and mortality in the Indian city of Pune has found that cold, rather than heat, is by far the bigger killer.

A model for millions of locations

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CEMSE statisticians developed a framework which enables modeling of a range of meteorological and environmental datasets from up to 2 million locations globally.

Matthew McCabe

Research Interests Prof. McCabe’s research focuses on issues related to water and food security, climate change impacts, precision agriculture, water resources monitoring and modeling, and the novel use of technologies for enhanced Earth system observation. The research undertaken in his group combines models and observations to answer questions on the distribution, variability and exchanges of water at local, regional and global scales, as well as the interactions with vegetation. CubeSats, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and in-situ monitoring techniques are all employed to monitor