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Tag: Climate Science
NASA spots first tropical cyclone of Southern Pacific season
The tropical cyclone season in the Southern Pacific Ocean has kicked off with Tropical Cyclone Rita, and NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the storm and analyzed it in infrared light for temperature data. Rita developed on Nov. 24 as Tropical…
NASA tracking Extra-Tropical Storm Sebastien towards the UK
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over eastern North Atlantic Ocean and captured an infrared view of what is now Extra-tropical cyclone Sebastien. Sebastien transitioned from a tropical storm to an extra-tropical storm on Nov. 24. It has coupled with a cold…
Changes in oxygen concentrations in our ocean can disrupt fundamental biological cycles
New research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has shown that the feedback mechanisms that were thought to keep the marine nitrogen cycle relatively stable over geological time can break down when oxygen levels in the ocean decline…
LANL news: Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide
Multiple Earth Systems computer models assessed potential drought levels
2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
RENO, Nev. (Nov. 25, 2019) – The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, a distinguished scientist, astronaut, explorer and author of “Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” as the recipient…
Mexico City to host Interdrought 2020
Global conference will serve as forum for collaboration on crop production in water-limited environments.
A missing link in haze formation
University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a key reaction that influences the growth of potentially harmful particles in the atmosphere
NASA spots first tropical cyclone of Southern Pacific season
The tropical cyclone season in the Southern Pacific Ocean has kicked off with Tropical Cyclone Rita, and NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the storm and analyzed it in infrared light for temperature data. Rita developed on Nov. 24 as Tropical…
NASA tracking Extra-Tropical Storm Sebastien towards the UK
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over eastern North Atlantic Ocean and captured an infrared view of what is now Extra-tropical cyclone Sebastien. Sebastien transitioned from a tropical storm to an extra-tropical storm on Nov. 24. It has coupled with a cold…
Changes in oxygen concentrations in our ocean can disrupt fundamental biological cycles
New research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has shown that the feedback mechanisms that were thought to keep the marine nitrogen cycle relatively stable over geological time can break down when oxygen levels in the ocean decline…
A missing link in haze formation
University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a key reaction that influences the growth of potentially harmful particles in the atmosphere
Samoa climate change resilience challenges Western perceptions
The resilience of Samoan communities in the face of climate change is providing a blueprint for other nations to follow, according to Samoa and Otago researchers. It is one of the first studies to examine Samoa’s grassroots ability to adapt…
New technology developed to improve forecasting of Earthquakes, Tsunamis
St. Petersburg, Fla. (November 22, 2019)- University of South Florida geoscientists have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and changes in the Earth’s seafloor that are often a precursor to…
El Nino swings more violently in the industrial age, compelling hard evidence says
El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to worsen storms, drought, and coral bleaching in El Nino years. A new study has found compelling evidence in the Pacific Ocean that the stronger El Ninos are…
NASA examines tropical storm Fung-Wong’s rainfall
NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Fung-Wong’s rainfall and found two small areas of moderate to heavy rainfall, despite being battered by strong wind shear. NASA has the unique capability of peering under the clouds in storms and measuring the rate at…
NASA’s infrared analysis of Tropical Storm Sebastien sees wind shear
Tropical Storm Sebastian continued to move in a northeasterly direction through the North Atlantic Ocean as NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead. Infrared imagery from an instrument aboard Aqua revealed very high, powerful storms with very cold cloud top temperatures in…
Climate change reassessment prompts call for a ‘more sober’ discourse
An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential,…
NASA found Atlantic’s Sebastien was fighting wind shear
NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Sebastien that showed wind shear had pushed the bulk of its clouds and showers to the southeast of the center. In general, wind shear is a measure of how the…
NASA imagery indicates a dissipating Kalmaegi
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of Tropical Depression Kalmaegi in the South China Sea as it was dissipating. On Nov. 20, Kalmaegi had crossed over Luzon, the northernmost island of the Philippines. The storm then moved into the South…
NASA tracks a weaker tropical storm Fung-Wong
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Fung-Wong as it continued weakening in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Philippines, tropical cyclone warning Signal #1 was in effect for the Luzon province of Batanes on Nov. 21 as…
Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed. Gas bubbles trapped in the cores —…
This humidity digester breathes in atmospheric water and exhales energy
Integrating a super moisture-absorbent gel with light-active materials, researchers in Singapore have developed a humidity digester to dry the ambient air while generating energy. The method, presented November 20 in the journal Joule , is a green alternative to air…
NASA estimates tropical storm Sebastien’s rainfall rates
NASA found moderate rainfall occurring over a large area in Tropical Storm Sebastien, as it moves through the Atlantic Ocean. NASA has the unique ability to measure and calculate rainfall rates in storms from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or…
NASA observes tropical storm Fung-Wong organize
As Tropical Depression 28W continued organizing and developing into Tropical Storm Fung-Wong in the Philippine Sea, NASA’s Aqua satellite provided data on the storm to forecasters. In the Philippines, Fung-Wong is known as Sarah. On Nov. 20, the Moderate Resolution…
NASA tracks typhoon Kalmaegi affecting northern Philippines
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Kalmaegi as it moved into the Luzon Strait and continued to affect the northern Philippines. On Nov. 19, Kalmaegi’s western edge was in the Luzon Strait, while its southern quadrant was over…
Researchers design an improved pathway to carbon-neutral plastics
Researchers from U of T Engineering and Caltech have designed a system that transforms renewable electricity and waste CO2 into one of the world’s most widely-used commodity chemicals
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into…
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
“They’re out there,” goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into…
Nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, is on the rise
A new study from an international group of scientists finds we are releasing more of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere than previously thought
Switching to renewable energy could save thousands of lives in Africa
Researchers estimate future death toll from fossil fuel emission
New findings on the largest natural sulfur source in the atmosphere
Laboratory results question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycle
Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes
Raindrops and ice forms rapidly and easily around nanosized particles of metal contaminants
NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Kalmaegi
NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Typhoon Kalmaegi using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Kalmaegi is known locally as Ramon in the Philippines where warnings are in effect. Kalmaegi has triggered warnings in the Philippines.…
NASA finds light rain in fading Tropical Depression 21E
Tropical Depression 21E never matured into a tropical storm and a NASA analysis of rainfall rates show the storm won’t have that chance. NASA has the unique capability of peering under the clouds in storms and measuring the rate in…
NASA finds light rain in fading Tropical Depression Fengshen
A NASA analysis of rainfall rates shows that the once mighty Fengshen is now a depression devoid of heavy rainfall. On Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. EST (1800 UTC), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that Tropical Depression Fengshen was…
Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed
In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the globe after about 30 years of gradual slowing. Research led by a team at Princeton University shows that wind speeds in northern mid-latitude…
Switching to renewable energy could save thousands of lives in Africa
Researchers estimate future death toll from fossil fuel emission
New findings on the largest natural sulfur source in the atmosphere
Laboratory results question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycle
Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes
Raindrops and ice forms rapidly and easily around nanosized particles of metal contaminants
NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Kalmaegi
NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Typhoon Kalmaegi using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Kalmaegi is known locally as Ramon in the Philippines where warnings are in effect. Kalmaegi has triggered warnings in the Philippines.…
NASA finds light rain in fading Tropical Depression 21E
Tropical Depression 21E never matured into a tropical storm and a NASA analysis of rainfall rates show the storm won’t have that chance. NASA has the unique capability of peering under the clouds in storms and measuring the rate in…
NASA finds light rain in fading Tropical Depression Fengshen
A NASA analysis of rainfall rates shows that the once mighty Fengshen is now a depression devoid of heavy rainfall. On Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. EST (1800 UTC), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center noted that Tropical Depression Fengshen was…
Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed
In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the globe after about 30 years of gradual slowing. Research led by a team at Princeton University shows that wind speeds in northern mid-latitude…
NASA identifies new Eastern Pacific tropical storm
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of developing Tropical Storm Raymond in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On Nov. 14, the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of then Tropical…
NASA looks at Tropical Depression Kalmaegi’s water vapor concentration
When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Philippine Sea, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Depression Kalmaegi. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed Kalmaegi on Nov. 15 at 0425 UTC (Nov. 14 at 11:25 p.m. EST) and the…
Images from NJIT’s big bear solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mystery
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star’s upper atmosphere,…
NASA gets an eyeful of Typhoon Fengshen
NASA’s Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Fengshen after its eye opened as Fengshen had strengthened from a tropical storm to a typhoon and developed an eye. On Nov. 15, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that…
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planets
Future rainfall could far outweigh current climate predictions
Homes and communities across the UK have felt the full force of torrential downpours in recent weeks. And the UK’s uplands could in future see significantly more annual rainfall than is currently being predicted in national climate models, according to…