Notes from the Arctic: Dr. Jason Box on Winter 2014
March 8, 2014
Dr. Jason Box, Chief Scientist of the Dark Snow Project, and a researcher formerly of the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State, now with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland – has spent the last week in Svalbard, a group of Islands high in the arctic, controlled by Norway.
I asked him to chat by skype and update us on the intense winter of 2013 and 14, the “cold continents warm arctic” paradox, and the ‘ridiculously resilient ridge” that continues to deliver punishment on both sides of the atlantic.



March 12, 2014 at 9:04 am
[…] a good explanation as to why jet stream patterns have produced an upside down winter this year from Dr. Jason Box, Chief Scientist of the Dark Snow Project, and a researcher formerly […]