Tuesday Top of the Scroll: Major ocean research effort centered in San Diego
UC San Diego will host the Cooperative Institute for Marine, Earth and Atmospheric systems, and it will get up to $220 million in funding for research over a five-year period. … The research institute will help federal scientists understand the complicated interaction between ocean and atmosphere, and the interaction’s effects on the planet’s climate [including] …West Coast rainfall, the abundance or lack of abundance of water, drought conditions…