The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was among the most damaging and deadly in modern history, but that isn’t necessarily an indicator for 2023. According to Virginia Tech meteorologist Stephanie Zick most seasonal forecasts are predicting a near average season, which goes from June 1 to November 30. NOAA’s outlook predicts a 40% chance of a near-normal season, with numbers similar to last year.
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UAH research programs achieve record high $169.5M in R&D funding for FY22
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) notched a record $169.5 million in research and development expenditures for fiscal year (FY) 2022, a 13% increase over FY21. This announcement accompanies the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey findings which cover FY21 and mark the 10th year in a row UAH has had five or more research programs ranked in the top 25 nationally for federal research funding.
It’s been 30 years since Hurricane Andrew made U.S. landfall. Are hurricanes getting more deadly? UWM expert Clark Evans can weigh in.
Clark Evans can discuss how hurricane activity in the U.S. is changing and how it’s affecting the modeling used to predict their trajectories. His lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee uses numerical models to better understand and improve prediction of…
Wildfires disproportionately affect the poor
With fires raging from California to Alaska, the 2022 wildfire season is off to a violent start. It’s an ominous sign of what promises to be another record-breaking fire season in the U.S. Roughly 2 million acres burned last month. And major fires are currently scorching Idaho, Utah and California, threatening tens of thousands of Americans’ homes and livelihoods. Many of those at risk are lower-income Americans who face canceled homeowners insurance policies and rising premiums, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
NYS Mesonet, NOAA Partner to Enhance Winter Weather Observations
Researchers at the New York State Mesonet are partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a new project that aims to enhance winter storm observations using the network’s real-time data.
Data from months in a fog paint a clearer picture for future forecasts
C-FOG researchers recently identified several components of conventional weather models that had been leading to erroneous predictions relating to fog.
Missing wind variability means future impacts of climate change may be underestimated in Europe and North America
Climate models may be underestimating the impact climate change will have on the UK, North America and other extratropical regions due to a crucial missing element, new research has shown.
Hurricane Ida ‘may be one of the best observed landfalling hurricanes’
A research team led by Michael Biggerstaff, a professor of meteorology in the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, successfully captured data with mobile radars and other weather instruments as Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana.
China’s carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons
About six gigatons — roughly 12 times the mass of all living humans — of carbon appears to be emitted over land every year, according to data from the Chinese Global Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Scientific Experimental Satellite (TanSat). Using data…
EU project ADMIRE launched
Interdisciplinary consortium aims to develop intelligent adaptive storage systems
RAS launches new multi-disciplinary journal
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first new journal in almost 100 years. Tentatively titled RAS Techniques and Instruments , it will cover topics in astronomy and geophysics ranging from instrumentation, data science,…
SwRI’s Bolton receives NSS Space Pioneer Award
National Space Society recognizes accomplishments in opening the space frontier
SwRI-led team addresses mystery of heavy elements in galactic cosmic rays
MMS data reveal a mechanism for accelerating heavy ions
Hotter, more frequent droughts threaten California’s iconic blue oak woodlands
The devastating 2012 – 2016 drought in California triggered widespread tree cover loss and die-offs of a variety of species in the region.
Cosmic rays: Coronal mass ejections and cosmic ray observations at Syowa Station in the Antarctic
Solar activities, such as CME(Coronal Mass Ejection), cause geomagnetic storm that is a temporary disturbance of the Earth’s magnetosphere. Geomagnetic storms can affect GPS positioning, radio communication, and power transmission system. Solar explosions also emit radiation, which can affect satellite…
Crowdfunding campaign to close gap in meteor tracking network and support science in India
Crowdfunding campaign to close gap in the global Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance network
Physicists report definitive evidence how auroras are created
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, that fill the sky in high-latitude regions have fascinated people for thousands of years. But how they’re created, while theorized, had not been conclusively proven. In a new study, a team of physicists led…
Less aviation during the global lockdown had a positive impact on the climate
Scientific study by scientists at Leipzig University, Imperial College London and the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace in Paris
Ancient volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer
A catastrophic drop in atmospheric ozone levels around the tropics is likely to have contributed to a bottleneck in the human population around 60 to 100,000 years ago, an international research team has suggested. The ozone loss, triggered by the…
Planetary scientist receives NASA’s Early Career Award
Funding will support new field-portable lab, help train next-generation analog scientists
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
Findings will help better identify Earth-like planets that could sustain life
Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel. The speculative explanation offered by the researchers gained support from a new study.…
California’s worst wildfires are helping improve air quality prediction
UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to estimate the impact of California’s destructive wildfires on air quality in neighborhoods affected by the smoke from these fires.
Researchers identify five double star systems potentially suitable for life
Stable liquid water could exist on surface of any Earth-like exoplanets
Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Dearth of Snow, Windy Weather and Record Heat in March in N.J.
New Brunswick, N.J. (April 13, 2021) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick climatologist David A. Robinson is available for interviews on the dearth of snow in March in New Jersey following a very snowy February, as well as the frequently windy weather and some…
New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years ago
New study discovers ancient meteoritic impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
Research led by the University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences has found new evidence of a low-altitude meteoritic touchdown event reaching the Antarctic ice sheet 430,000 years ago
Professor Qingwei Ma seeks to unlock the potential of marine wave energy
The City, University of London academic will lead on the development of a new generation modelling suite, combining machine learning techniques, for the survivability of wave energy converters in marine environments
Aerosol formation in clouds
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have studied for the first time how chemical reactions in clouds can influence the global climate. They found that isoprene, the dominant non-methane organic compound emitted into the atmosphere, can strongly contribute to…
The blast that shook the ionosphere
A 2020 explosion in Lebanon’s port city of Beirut led to a southward-bound, high-velocity atmospheric wave that rivaled ones generated by volcanic eruptions.
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble finds
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as…
Climate change could have direct consequences on malaria transmission in Africa
The slowdown in global warming that was observed at the end of last century was reflected by a decrease in malaria transmission in the Ethiopian highlands, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an…
Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Near-Record February Snow, North American Snow Cover
New Brunswick, N.J. (March 9, 2021) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick climatologist David A. Robinson is available for interviews on the seventh snowiest February since 1895 in New Jersey as well as the fourth largest North American snow cover in February in 55…
Geological engineers create landslide atlas of Kerala, India
Dedicated to the thousands of lives lost in landslides, the new atlas assesses landslide risk in 13 districts in the Indian state of Kerala. The Western Ghats trailing the western edge of India are a global hotspot for biodiversity. The…
Planetary science intern leads study of Martian crust
Team explored the relationships between the strength of the magnetic field on planet’s surface and the composition of the crust in the Terra Sirenum-Terra Cimmeria region
Space hurricane observed for the first time
The first observations of a space hurricane have been revealed in Earth’s upper atmosphere, confirming their existence and shedding new light on the relationship between planets and space.
NAU astronomer receives prestigious 2021 Cottrell Scholar Award
Tyler Robinson recognized for academic leadership, research quality and innovation
SwRI scientist captures evidence of dynamic seasonal activity on a Martian sand dune
Research finds that airborne dust plumes are produced by sliding blocks of dry ice each spring
New study on the forecasting of extreme rainfall events in Mediterranean countries
Researchers at the European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and TU Freiberg develop a framework to better predict extreme rainfall events in Mediterranean countries
NASA-funded network tracks the recent rise and fall of ozone depleting pollutants
A short-lived resurgence in the emission of ozone depleting pollutants in eastern China will not significantly delay the recovery of Earth’s protective “sunscreen” layer, according to new research published Feb. 10 in Nature . Stratospheric ozone, also known as Earth’s…
NASA’s first mission to the trojan asteroids installs its final scientific instrument
With less than a year to launch, NASA’s Lucy mission’s third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The spacecraft, which will be the first to explore the Trojan asteroids—a population of small bodies that share an…
US must unify atmospheric biology research or risk national security, scientists say
China, Russia and Europe prioritize research on airborne life, but US programs remain small, isolated and fragmented
New NCAR-Wyoming supercomputer to accelerate scientific discovery
New system will advance nation’s understanding of geosciences
Drought of the century in the Middle Ages — with parallels to climate change today?
Researchers identify previously unknown drought period from historical sources
NASA’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids integrates its second scientific instrument
NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. “Having two of the three instruments integrated onto the spacecraft is an exciting milestone,” said Donya…
A new TanSat XCO2 global product for climate studies
Since CO 2 has been recognized as the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas owing to its significant impact on global warming and climate change, there have been a substantial number of studies that have focused on investigating the status of…
SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have masses and temperatures down to those of exoplanets in the most extreme cases. Just like stars, brown dwarfs often wander…
Artificial intelligence sets sights on the sun
Scientists from the University of Graz and the Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory (Austria) and their colleagues from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) developed a new method based on deep learning for stable classification and quantification of image quality…
Rutgers Expert Can Discuss November and 2020 Warmth, Top Snowfall Seasons in N.J.
New Brunswick, N.J. (Dec. 9, 2020) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick climatologist David A. Robinson is available for interviews on the extreme warmth in New Jersey in November and 2020 to date, as well as the 10 snowiest and 10 least snowy seasons since…