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UrduSuper Typhoon Halong has finally peaked in intensity and is now on a weakening trend. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided a look at the storm. On Nov. 5, Halong was a powerful Category…
Tag: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business
Researchers from UCLA, Oxford and other institutions analyze 10 different industrial applications for greenhouse gas emissions
Newly formed tropical storm Nakri seen by NASA-NOAA satellite
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of newly formed Tropical Storm Nakri while it remained quasi-stationary and as it slowly organized. Nakri, known in the Philippines as Quiel, formed west of…
NASA-NOAA satellite finds tropical Cyclone Maha weakening
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a view of Tropical Cyclone Maha’s eroding structure that helped confirm it is weakening. On Nov. 6, 2019, the Visible…
NASA-NOAA satellite finds super typhoon Halong finally weakening
Super Typhoon Halong has finally peaked in intensity and is now on a weakening trend. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided a look at the storm. On Nov. 5, Halong was a powerful Category…
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business
Researchers from UCLA, Oxford and other institutions analyze 10 different industrial applications for greenhouse gas emissions
NASA tracking remnants of Tropical Cyclone Matmo
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Matmo in the Arabian Sea is it headed north toward Bangladesh. The visible image showed that the low pressure area appeared better organized and forecasters are watching it…
Satellite tracking shows how ships affect clouds and climate
By matching the movement of ships to the changes in clouds caused by their emissions, researchers have shown how strongly the two are connected. When ships burn fossil fuels, they release airborne particles containing various naturally occurring chemicals, including sulphur.…
NASA finds thick ring of powerful storms around Super Typhoon Halong’s eye
Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen and has become a super typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Infrared imagery from an instrument aboard NASA’s Terra revealed a thick ring of very high, powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures circling…
NASA looks at Tropical Cyclone Maha’s water vapor concentration
When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Cyclone Maha. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed Tropical Cyclone Maha on Nov. 5 at 3:47 a.m. EST (0847 UTC) the Moderate…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of Tropical Cyclone Maha
NASA infrared imagery revealed Tropical Cyclone Maha was still a powerful storm as it continued moving through the Arabian Sea in the Northern Indian Ocean. On Nov. 4 at 4:45 a.m. EDT (0945 UTC the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of typhoon Halong
Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead. Infrared imagery from an instrument aboard Terra revealed very high, powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures circling the center as well as…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of Tropical Cyclone Maha
NASA infrared imagery revealed Tropical Cyclone Maha was still a powerful storm as it continued moving through the Arabian Sea in the Northern Indian Ocean. On Nov. 4 at 4:45 a.m. EDT (0945 UTC the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of typhoon Halong
Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead. Infrared imagery from an instrument aboard Terra revealed very high, powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures circling the center as well as…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of Tropical Cyclone Maha
NASA infrared imagery revealed Tropical Cyclone Maha was still a powerful storm as it continued moving through the Arabian Sea in the Northern Indian Ocean. On Nov. 4 at 4:45 a.m. EDT (0945 UTC the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS…
NASA provides an infrared analysis of typhoon Halong
Typhoon Halong continued to strengthen in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead. Infrared imagery from an instrument aboard Terra revealed very high, powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures circling the center as well as…
NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Bualoi over Marianas
Typhoon Bualoi was lashing the Marianas Islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed the cloud top temperatures to give forecasters insight into the storm’s rain potential. On Oct. 22, a Tropical Storm Warning…
NASA imagery reveals Neoguri now extra-tropical
Formerly a typhoon, now an extra-tropical storm, Neoguri has taken on more of a frontal system appearance in imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite. The final warning on the system has been issued. On Oct. 22, the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or…
Northern peatlands may contain twice as much carbon as previously thought
New findings double potential emissions from these areas, with big implications for climate modeling
NASA catches short-lived Tropical Storm Priscilla’s landfall in Mexico
Tropical Storm Priscilla was short-lived because it formed on Sunday, Oct. 20 very close to the coast of western Mexico and made landfall that same day. NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible picture of the storm as it was making…
NASA finds a transitioning Tropical Storm Neoguri
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on Oct. 21 and captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Neoguri. Satellite imagery revealed that the storm is becoming extra-tropical. On Oct. 21, the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument…
NASA finds Typhoon Bualoi rapidly intensified
Typhoon Bualoi rapidly intensified over 24 hours and quickly developed an eye and powerful thunderstorms. On Oct. 21, the eye of Typhoon Bualoi was just over 50 miles from the island of Saipan when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead.…
NASA-NOAA satellite observes development of Tropical Storm Octave
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided infrared data that showed the development of Tropical Storm Octave in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Octave formed on Oct. 17 by 5 p.m. EDT as a tropical depression. At that time, it was located about…
NASA-NOAA satellite finds Tropical Storm Neoguri consolidating
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a visible image of Tropical Storm Neoguri that showed it had become more organized over the previous 24 hours. Tropical Depression 21W lacked organization for a couple…
NASA-NOAA satellite finds overshooting tops, gravity waves in Tropical Storm Nestor
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided night-time and infrared views of developing Tropical Storm Nestor in the Gulf of Mexico and found over-shooting cloud tops and gravity waves. When the satellite passed over the potential tropical depression early on Oct. 18,…
Gas ‘waterfalls’ reveal infant planets around young star
The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) how distinct gaps…
NASA-NOAA satellite catches last burst before demise of Tropical Depression 17E
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Mexico and found two small areas of very strong thunderstorms near two different coastlines. One area was in Potential Tropical Cyclone 17E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the other was for another system…
NASA’s Terra satellite catches end of Atlantic Tropical Depression 15
Tropical Depression Fifteen or TD15, developed off the west coast of Africa on Oct. 14 by 5 p.m. EDT. The depression never strengthened into a tropical storm before it reached the end of its life. NASA’s Terra satellite provided an…
NASA’s Aqua satellite reveals flooding in Japan from Typhoon Hagibis
Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan over the weekend of October 12 and 13, bringing damaging winds, rough surf and flooding rains. NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the flooding caused by the torrential rainfall. Hagibis made landfall…
NASA provides a farewell infrared view of extra-tropical storm Melissa
NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over North Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 14 and provided forecasters with an infrared view of Tropical Storm Melissa that revealed wind shear was tearing the storm apart as it was becoming extra-tropical. NASA’s Suomi NPP…
NASA’s Terra satellite catches a glimpse of a fleeting Ema
Tropical Storm Ema had a very short life, but NASA’s Terra satellite caught a glimpse of the storm before it dissipated in the Central Pacific Ocean. The newest tropical storm of the Central Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed to the…
A fortress of ice and snow
MOSAiC expedition begins its ice drift on a floe at 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east
NASA selects Illinois professor for satellite mission concept study
Lara Waldrop, assistant professor electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected by NASA to lead a multi-institution team to conduct a concept study for a satellite mission. Her mission, titled “Global Lyman-alpha Imagers…
Study finds managed forests in New Hampshire rich in carbon
A Dartmouth-led study examining carbon stocks in an actively managed mixed wood forest in New Hampshire finds that places with more trees have more carbon stored in both the trees and the soil. The findings, published in Forest Ecology and…
NASA finds a transitioning cyclone Mitag filling the sea of Japan
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Sea of Japan on Oct. 3 and captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Mitag. Clouds associated with the storm blanketed the Sea of Japan and satellite imagery indicated the storm was becoming extra-tropical.…
NASA sees Post-tropical Cyclone Lorenzo affecting Ireland
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean early on Oct. 3 and captured a visible image of Post-tropical Cyclone Lorenzo as it neared Ireland. Lorenzo’s eastern side is already affecting Ireland, and both Ireland and the United…
Nuclear war between India and Pakistan would launch a global climate catastrophe
Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe
NASA satellite sees a large Hurricane Lorenzo headed toward Azores
Hurricane Lorenzo was heading toward the Azores Islands when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with an image of the storm. Satellite imagery revealed the large extent of the storm. Visible imagery from NASA satellites help forecasters understand if a…
NASA satellite shows Typhoon Mitag’s large reach over East China Sea
The bulk of Typhoon Mitag’s clouds and precipitation has been pushed north of its center, extending its reach over the East China Sea. Mitag was centered just off the coast of China’s Zhejiang province when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed…
Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth
Scientists update estimates of Earth’s immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and exhales
Reinhart Koselleck Project funding for research into growth of atmospheric nanoparticles
The objective is to understand the mechanisms of particle formation and to distinguish between its natural and anthropogenic causes
NASA finds Narda’s remnants bringing rain to mexico, headed to southwestern US
The remnant low pressure area that was formerly known as tropical cyclone Narda is still generating rainfall as it moves toward the southwestern U.S. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite provided a look at the rainfall occurring on…
NASA finds tropical storm Narda bringing heavy rainfall to western Mexico
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Narda along Mexico’s west coast in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Satellite data revealed the potential for heavy rainfall within Narda, and warnings are in effect for portions of western Mexico. Narda…
NASA finds Typhoon Mitag’s eye east of Taiwan
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Mitag’s cloud-filled eye, located east of Taiwan. On Sept. 30, the Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of Mitag. The MODIS image…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP analyzes record-setting hurricane Lorenzo
Over the weekend of Sept. 28 and 29, Hurricane Lorenzo attained Category 5 strength briefly, becoming the strongest hurricane on record in the eastern-most Atlantic Ocean. Lorenzo has also attained and contributed to some other significant statistics. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP…
NASA data stares into the eye of powerful hurricane Lorenzo
Satellite data has confirmed that Lorenzo is a major hurricane in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean with an impressive structure. NASA’s Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Lorenzo that revealed a clear eye and a solid structure of thunderstorms…
NASA Satellite finds Karen holding onto tropical storm status
NASA’s Terra Satellite provides a variety of data on tropical cyclones including cloud heights and cloud top temperatures. Terra examined those factors in Tropical Storm Karen in the North Atlantic Ocean and data showed Karen holding onto tropical storm status.…
NASA-NOAA satellite sees Tropical Depression 19W organizing
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a view of Tropical Depression 19W’s structure that helped confirm it is now a depression. On Sept. 27, 2019, the…
HALO mission investigates ozone depletion and processes affecting our climate
Researchers will study the influence of gravity waves on the polar vortex over the Antarctic and analyze the chemical and dynamic processes at play in the tropopause
NASA finds light rain in former hurricane Kiko’s remnants
Former Hurricane Kiko is now just a remnant low pressure area that has slid into the Central Pacific Ocean. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite provided a look at the rainfall occurring within the low. Kiko weakened to…