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New Study Reveals Recent Ice Gains in Antarctica, But Long-Term Melting Continues https://www.byteseu.com/1019372/ #AntarcticaSeesRecentIceGainsButLongTermLossesReflectGlobalWarmingAntarctica #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateStudy #EnvironmentalScience #GlobalWarming #IceSheet #NasaGrace #PolarIce #SatelliteData #TongjiUniversity

Someone had the idea that less SO2 has reduced rain in Cote d'Ivoire and reduced cocoa harvest. Fascinating! So I plotted #GRACE surface moisture % and #SO2 by #CAMS for the rectangle -8°E to 0°E, 4°N to10°N . Chose this rectangle bc I had planned to also use GHCN precipitation data from stations in the country. But it turns out their reporting is ... spotty – and that's putting it very politely😁

SO2 total column 🤎 data goes to Dec 2022. #NASAGRACE drought monitor for surface moisture 💙 goes to Feb2024. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobroma_cacao , cocoa trees are sensitive to surface soil moisture. But no harvest month is stated which wd have been interesting to know here.

I see no correlation between GRACE and SO2. Do you?
What's more, I also don't see a big drought that would explain the low cocoa harvest. Also what little GHCN precipitation data there is even suggests higher than average rainfall for the years 2019-2023. Ah well. Mabye it was pests that killed the harvest?

#chocolate #ClimateChange #cocoa
data:
NASA GRACE drought monitor:
https://nasagrace.unl.edu/globaldata/
CAMS SO2 total column monthly:
https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-reanalysis-eac4-monthly
GHCN /byStation:
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ Ivory Coast station names begin with IV