{"id":421,"date":"2011-01-18T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-02-16T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:32:23","slug":"which-role-does-solar-activity-play-in-the-occurence-of-meteorological-blocking-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/junq.info\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Which role does solar activity play in the occurence of meteorological &#8220;blocking events&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Question of the Week, 18.1.2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The year 2010 was packed with extreme weather events: Drought and fire in Russia, flooding in Pakistan last summer and most recently the big flood in Australia, where areas as big as Germany and France together are drowned.<\/p>\n<p>All these natural disasters can be traced back to &#8220;blocking events&#8221; in the atmosphere. A blocking event is a static atmospheric pattern that traps a certain meteorological condition and impedes weather changes.<\/p>\n<p>Computer models suggest that climate change increases the number and the length of heatwaves and the frequency of blocking events. But there is evidence that last year&#8217;s blocking events were also caused by very low solar activity.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19304-is-climate-change-burning-russia.html?page=1\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19304-is-climate-change-burning-russia.html?page=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonie Mueck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2010 was packed with extreme weather events: Drought and fire in Russia, flooding in Pakistan last summer and most recently the big flood in Australia, where areas as big as Germany and France together are drowned&#8230; (Question of the Week, 18.1.2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/junq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}