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UrduNASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the landfall of Tropical Storm Higos on Aug. 18. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP captured a visible image of Higos as it was…
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NASA-NOAA satellite provides overnight watch on hurricane Genevieve
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite kept an eye on Hurricane Genevieve overnight and provided infrared imagery to forecasters who were monitoring the storm’s strength, structure and size. Because Genevieve is close to the coast of western Mexico, warnings and watches were…
Recent global warming trends are inconsistent with very high climate sensitivity
Research published this week in Earth System Dynamics reports that the most sensitive climate models overestimate global warming during the last 50 years.
The tropics are expanding, and climate change is the primary culprit
WASHINGTON–Earth’s tropics are expanding poleward and that expansion is driven by human-caused changes to the ocean, according to new research. The tropics wrap around Earth’s middle like a warm, wet belt. This part of the globe gets the most direct…
Recent global warming trends are inconsistent with very high climate sensitivity
Research published this week in Earth System Dynamics reports that the most sensitive climate models overestimate global warming during the last 50 years. Three scientists from the University of Exeter studied the output of complex climate models and compared them…
NASA-NOAA satellite snaps image of tropical storm Higos in South China Sea
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Higos. Higos is headed for landfall in southeastern China. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP provided a…
Global warming is changing our plant communities
Although Live Oak trees are common in South Florida today, Ken Feeley, a University of Miami biology professor, said their time here may be fleeting.
NASA looks at water vapor in remnants of tropical depression 10E
Tropical Depression 10E weakened to a remnant low-pressure area in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Terra satellite observed the water vapor content in the storm. At 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 16, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center noted that the…
NASA satellite catches the end of Post-tropical Storm Kyle
NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of the end of Post-tropical Storm Kyle in the North Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 16. Kyle was a tropical storm for only one day, when it formed a couple of hundred miles off…
NASA sees former Tropical Storm Josephine open into a trough
Tropical Storm Josephine weakened on Aug. 16 in the North Atlantic Ocean and satellite imagery showed the storm had become elongated and stretched out into a trough of low pressure a couple of hundred miles north of Puerto Rico. Early…
Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives
Study finds improved air quality would avoid health and climate damages
New research will improve early warning of devastating megastorms
Study finds land surface conditions can affect mesoscale convective systems while they are on the move
Findings refute idea of monarchs’ migration mortality as major cause of population decline
LAWRENCE, KANSAS — In a new study, Monarch Watch Director Chip Taylor and colleagues have shown that speculation regarding the declining monarch population, despite having received much attention, is unsupported. Published Aug. 7 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and…
ASU climate study looks at humans’ exposure to extreme temperatures during 21st century
Denver is known for its relatively mild climate and its four distinct seasons. It’s also known for its temperature fluctuations over the course of a day or even hours. But what does that mean for the city’s residents–and for that…
New model for pricing carbon will help meet net-zero climate change goals
Near-term to net zero pricing approach avoids pitfalls of the social cost of carbon
Higher day-time methane emissions from northern lakes
Diel variability of methane emissions from lakes
NASA finds short-lived Fausto faded fast
Post-Tropical Storm Fausto faded fast in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Terra satellite provided an infrared look at the storm, which showed no areas of heavy rainfall, and the storm was classified as a remnant low-pressure area. Fausto developed from…
NASA infrared data shows Genevieve strengthening into a hurricane
NASA’s Terra satellite used infrared light to identify strongest storms and coldest cloud top temperatures and found them surrounding a developing eyewall around Genevieve as it was strengthening into a hurricane. Genevieve formed on Sunday by 11 a.m. EDT (1500…
Reconstructing global climate through Earth’s history
A key component when forecasting what the Earth’s climate might look like in the future is the ability to draw on accurate temperature records of the past.
NASA finds wind shear making Tropical Depression 10E struggle
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of a struggling Tropical Depression 10E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Wind shear is preventing the storm from intensifying into a tropical storm. On Aug. 13, the Visible Infrared Imaging…
NASA finds wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Josephine
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Josephine east of the Lesser Antilles island chain. Suomi NPP revealed that Josephine was being affected by wind shear. The Lesser Antilles is a group of islands…
NASA-NOAA satellite nighttime imagery helps confirm Elida now post-tropical
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a night-time image of Elida in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that helped confirm the storm had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. What is a Post-tropical Cyclone? The National Hurricane Center (NHC) defines a post-tropical cyclone…
NASA-NOAA satellite nighttime imagery reveals development of Tropical Storm Josephine
The tenth named tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was named today, Aug. 13, after NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime image of the storm. Tropical Storm Josephine developed from Tropical Depression 11. Over the last two…
Reconstructing global climate through Earth’s history
A key component when forecasting what the Earth’s climate might look like in the future is the ability to draw on accurate temperature records of the past. By reconstructing past latitudinal temperature gradients (the difference in average temperature between the…
NASA finds hurricane Elida’s eye covered
NASA’s Aqua satellite obtained visible imagery of Hurricane Elida in the Eastern Pacific as it continued to weaken. Imagery revealed that Elida’s eye had become covered as the storm embarks on a weakening trend over cooler waters. The Moderate Resolution…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite finds a stubborn tropical depression 06W
Tropical Depression 06W has been around for days, and continues to hold together as it moves in a westerly direction toward Taiwan in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of the storm. On Aug.…
Warming threat to tropical forests risks release of carbon from soil
Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide risk being lost into the atmosphere due to tropical forest soils being significantly more sensitive to climate change than previously thought. Carbon emissions from soils in tropical forests – which store one quarter of…
Researchers identify human influence as key agent of ocean warming patterns in the future
The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. The implications of their results, published today in Nature , are significant because regional sea level, affecting coastal populations around the world,…
Clemson doctoral candidate uses rockets to surf the Alaskan sky
Clemson postdoc and a multi-institutional research team documented “surfer waves” in the upper atmosphere that create a pipeline of energy between layers in space.
NASA finds a wispy, wind-sheared Tropical Depression 06W
NASA’s Terra satellite revealed that a wispy looking Tropical Depression 06W in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean was being battered by wind shear. That wind shear is not expected to wane and the storm is expected to weaken. Tropical Depression 06W…
NASA finds Jangmi now an Extra-Tropical Storm
NASA’s Aqua satellite obtained a visible image of Tropical Storm Jangmi after it transitioned into an extra-tropical storm. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) posted its final bulletin on Tropical Storm Jangmi on Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500…
NASA finds Mekkhala coming apart after landfall in Southeastern China
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of former Typhoon Mekkhala shortly after it made landfall in southeastern China. Wind shear had torn the storm apart. Mekkhala made landfall in Fujian, southeastern China, bringing strong winds and…
NASA-NOAA satellite night-time animation shows intensification of hurricane Elida
A new animation of night-time imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite revealed how the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s Elida transformed into a hurricane over a three-day period. NASA’s Night-Time View of Elida’s Intensification The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument…
Climate change projected to increase seasonal East African rainfall
According to research led by The University of Texas at Austin, seasonal rainfall is expected to rise significantly in East Africa over the next few decades in response to increased greenhouse gases. The study, published in July in Climate Dynamics…
Exact climate data from the past
Innovative method opens up new perspectives for reconstructing climatic conditions of past eras
NASA infrared data confirms depression became Tropical Storm Elida
After Tropical Depression 09E formed near the coast of southwestern Mexico, infrared data from NASA’s Aqua satellite helped confirm its transition to a tropical storm. On Aug. 9 at 11 p.m. EDT (Aug. 10 at 0300 UTC), Tropical Depression 09E…
NASA sees compact Tropical Storm Jangmi exiting East China Sea
Tropical Storm Jangmi was exiting the East China Sea and moving toward the Sea of Japan when NASA’s Aqua satellite measured the strength of the system. Jangmi formed as a depression on Aug. 8. At 5 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC),…
Stronger rains in warmer climate could lessen heat damage to crops, says study
But overall yields could still decline sharply
Discovery transforms understanding of hydrogen depletion at the seafloor
Scientists analyzing hydrothermal fluid from Piccard vents at Mid-Cayman Rise find non-biological processes deplete hydrogen that was thought to be readily available to subseafloor microbial communities; discovery could impact global hydrogen budget
NASA’s Aqua Satellite shows extent of Apple Fire’s burn scar
On Aug. 9, 2020 NASA’s Aqua satellite imaged the Apple Fire near Big Bear Lake in California using its false-color bands in order to be able to distinguish burn scars from the surrounding area more easily. The combination of reflectance…
NASA finds strong storms in developing Tropical Storm Mekkhala
After Tropical Depression 07W formed close to the western Philippines, it moved away and strengthened into a tropical storm in the South China Sea. NASA’s Terra satellite provided a look at the strength of the storms that make up the…
Subpolar marginal seas play a key role in making the subarctic Pacific nutrient-rich
A group of researchers from three Japanese universities has discovered why the western subarctic Pacific Ocean, which accounts for only 6 percent of the world’s oceans, produces an estimated 26 percent of the world’s marine resources. Japan neighbors this ocean…
Researchers find link between Atlantic hurricanes and weather system in East Asia
With a new Atlantic hurricane season in full swing, scientists may have found a new influence on how tropical cyclones develop. Researchers led by the University of Iowa have identified a connection between a climate system in East Asia and…
‘Roaming reactions’ study to shed new light on atmospheric molecules
A detailed study of roaming reactions – where atoms of compounds split off and orbit other atoms to form unexpected new compounds – could enable scientists to make much more accurate predictions about molecules in the atmosphere, including models of…
NASA satellites capture Isaias’ nighttime track into Canada
Tropical Storm Isaias has transitioned into a post-tropical storm as it moved out of the U.S. and into eastern Canada on Aug. 5 and 6. NASA created an animation of nighttime satellite imagery that shows Isaias’ track up the U.S.…
Ocean heatwaves dramatically shift habitats
“Thermal displacement” reflects how far species must go to follow preferred temperatures
Photoperiod and temperature prove secondary growth resumption in northern hemisphere conifers
Forest trees play a critical role in regulating global carbon, water and energy cycles and mitigating global warming. The phenology of trees is a key to understanding the feedbacks between terrestrial vegetation and Earth’s climate. Recent climate warming has changed…
Tracking and forecasting outbreak risk of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-transmitted diseases
New system infuses ‘R0’ models with climate information to help public health agencies forecast places and times when environmental conditions might enhance transmission of dengue, Zika and other Aedes-borne diseases
In a warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon
Unprecedented 25-year study traced forest carbon through air, trees, soil, and water
NASA’s Aqua satellite shows two views of the apple fire
NASA’s Aqua satellite took images of the Apple Fire as it continued to spread north across the head of the Mill Creek Canyon, and east into the San Gorgonio Wilderness near San Bernardino, Calif. on Aug. 03, 2020. The fire…