Tag: TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PHENOMENA

New ice-sheet “emulator” focuses on Antarctica, Rutgers research shows

NASA analyzes Hurricane Delta’s water vapor concentration

When NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Caribbean Sea on Oct. 7, it gathered water vapor data on Hurricane Delta as Mexico’s Yucatan continues to feel its effects. Water vapor analysis of tropical cyclones tells forecasters how much potential a…

NASA analyzes rainfall around Typhoon Chan-hom’s ragged eye

A NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found heavy rainfall occurring throughout Typhoon Chan-hom and the heaviest rainfall in the eyewall. Chan-hom is expected to bring rainfall to Japan on its track through the Northwestern…

NASA finds dry air sapping Tropical Storm Norbert’s strength

Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed that dry air is eroding Tropical Storm Norbert, located off the coast of southwestern Mexico. Infrared Data Reveals Dry Air Effects On Oct. 7 at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 UTC), the Moderate Resolution…

Past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions

New biochemical research shows significant turnovers in Southeast Asian environments and animals during the Pleistocene

Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power

While solar power is a leading form of renewable energy, new research suggests that changes to regional climates brought on by global warming could make areas currently considered ideal for solar power production less viable in the future. Princeton-based researchers…

California’s August Complex largest fire in state’s history

NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of the August Complex of fires that has grown to over 1,000,000 acres burned (1,006,140 acres total) and because of that grim milestone the complex has been dubbed a “gigafire.” The August…

Infrared NASA imagery finds Chan-hom organizing, consolidating

NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed the large Tropical Storm Chan-hom as it tracked through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Aqua imagery showed the storm was consolidating, indicating a strengthening trend. One of the ways NASA researches tropical cyclones is using infrared data…

NASA catches development of Tropical Storm Norbert as Marie declines

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean and captured the birth of a depression that became Tropical Storm Norbert while Marie continued weakening while headed toward the Central Pacific. Tropical Depression 19E formed well offshore of southwestern…

NASA-NOAA satellite finds Hurricane Delta rapidly intensifying

Infrared imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite revealed that Hurricane Delta has been rapidly growing stronger and more powerful. Infrared imagery revealed that powerful thunderstorms circled the eye of the hurricane and southern quadrant as it moved through the Caribbean…

Earth grows fine gems in minutes

Study: Crystals could grow up to a yard per day in some cooling magmas

Indonesia’s old and deep peatlands offer an archive of environmental changes

University of Oregon-led project identifies the age, depth and carbon stock of the world’s oldest tropical peatlands

NASA infrared imagery reveals wind shear displacing Marie’s strongest storms

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Marie that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm. Wind shear occurs when winds at different levels of the atmosphere push against the rotating cylinder of winds, weakening…

NASA imagery reveals Tropical Storm Chan-hom’s skewed structure

NASA’s Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Tropical Storm Chan-hom as it continued moving though the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The imagery revealed that the center of circulation was exposed and its strongest storms were south of the center. Tropical Depression…

NASA imagery reveals Tropical Storm Gamma battered by wind shear

NASA’s Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Tropical Storm Gamma being battered by outside winds in the south central Gulf of Mexico. Over the weekend of Oct. 3 and 4, Gamma tracked over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Tropical Depression 25 formed…

For red abalone, resisting ocean acidification starts with mom

Study identifies traits of climate-resilient red abalone, with implications for farmed abalone

NASA gages Tropical Storm Delta’s strength in infrared

NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Delta in infrared imagery as it moved through the Caribbean Sea. The imagery provided cloud top temperatures to identify the strongest areas within the storm. Potential Tropical Cyclone 26 formed in the Caribbean Sea…

Coastal flooding will disproportionately impact 31 million people globally

Study is first to assess the impact of climate change on the global population of river deltas

Climate change responsible for record sea temperature levels, says study

The ocean faces increasing threat from climate change

NASA finds heavy rainfall ringing major Hurricane Maria’s eye

Imagine being able to look down at a storm from orbit in space, and provide data that lets scientists calculate the rate in which rain is falling throughout it. That is what a NASA satellite rainfall product does as it…

Future climate changes in nature reserves

Bayreuth research: Tropical nature reserves to be particularly affected

Climate: Iodic acid influences cloud formation at the North Pole

The Arctic is warming two or three times faster than the rest of the planet. This amplified warming is due to several factors, but the relative importance of each one remains still unclear. “We do know, however, that clouds could…

NASA finds Hurricane Marie rapidly intensifying

NASA infrared imagery revealed that Hurricane Marie is rapidly growing stronger and more powerful. Infrared imagery revealed that powerful thunderstorms circled the eye of the hurricane as it moved through the Eastern Pacific Ocean. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects…

Ice discharge in the North Pacific set off series of climate events during last ice age

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Repeated catastrophic ice discharges from western North America into the North Pacific contributed to, and perhaps triggered, hemispheric-scale changes in the Earth’s climate during the last ice age, new research published online today in Science reveals. The…

USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award

SASKATOON – University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for outstanding contributions to the science of water over his career. Famiglietti, executive director of USask’s Global…

Ocean warming and acidification effects on calcareous phytoplankton communities

A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) warns that the negative effects of rapid ocean warming on planktonic communities will be exacerbated by ocean acidification. The…

Study explores just transition task force lessons for depolarizing energy, climate policy

The University of Ottawa’s Positive Energy program released today a new report that explores the work of Canada’s Just Transition Task Force. In 2018, the Task Force met with communities and stakeholders across Canada that would be affected by the…

NASA confirms, heavy rainfall, strengthening of tropical storm Marie

Tropical Storm Marie has formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and NASA satellite data helped confirm the strengthening of the storm. In addition, using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations, NASA estimated Marie’s rainfall…

NASA imagery reveals Kujira transitioning into an extratropical cyclone

Tropical cyclones can become post-tropical before they dissipate, meaning they can become sub-tropical, extra-tropical or a remnant low-pressure area. NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image that showed Typhoon Kujira transitioning into an extra-tropical storm, and the effects of strong…

Texas A&M study: Marine heatwaves can strengthen hurricanes

Scientists have found that ocean events, such as a heatwave and a recent storm, can contribute to strengthening hurricanes

Marine biodiversity reshuffles under warmer and sea ice-free Pacific Arctic

September 29, 2020 sarah JonasResearch Results

Climate warming will alter marine community compositions as species are expected to shift poleward, significantly impacting the Arctic marine ecosystem.

NASA’s infrared view of typhoon Kujira

NASA’s Terra satellite used infrared light to identify strongest storms and coldest cloud top temperatures in Typhoon Kujira as it tracked through the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Infrared Data Reveals Most Powerful Storms Infrared data provides temperature information about the cloud…

Redefining drought in the US corn belt

URBANA, Ill. – As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly hinges on crops’ ability to withstand drought. But are scientists and producers focusing on the right metric when measuring crop-relevant drought? Not exactly, according to new…

Marine biodiversity reshuffles under warmer and sea ice-free Pacific Arctic

Climate warming will alter marine community compositions as species are expected to shift poleward, significantly impacting the Arctic marine ecosystem. The biodiversity of marine communities in the Pacific Arctic under future climate change scenarios highlights profound changes relative to their…

Are China’s pollution remediation efforts making the planet warmer?

China’s efforts to combat aerosol pollution resulted in warming throughout the northern latitudes

Landslides have long-term effects on tundra vegetation

Landslides have long-term effects on tundra vegetation, a new study shows. Conducting the study in North West Siberia, the researchers found that tundra vegetation regenerated rapidly after a major landslide event in 1989. Two decades later, differences in the vegetation…

The cost of drought in Italy

Droughts are, after floods and storms, the costliest natural hazard. The expected increa,se in the frequency and intensity of drought events due to climate change reinforces the necessity to improve the quality and reliability of information about the economic impacts…

Disastrous duo: Heatwaves and droughts

Climate change at the heart of more frequent and intense dry and hot extremes in recent decades

NASA casts an infrared eye on Tropical Storm Kujira’s very cold cloud tops

NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Kujira using infrared light to determine the strength of the storm. Infrared imagery revealed that the strongest storms were around Kujira’s center and in a band of thunderstorms on the western…

Princeton researchers join $1M NSF effort to model nation’s groundwater