Weather
Hurricane Monitoring to Improve in 2008
Originally Published by Live Science
As the forecast for this year’s hurricane season predicts a busy one, forecasters are implementing new technologies to monitor a storm’s strength prior to landfall.
Posted on
June 19th, 2008
Climate, Earth Observation, Weather
Burma Cyclone Was Forecast Four Days In Advance
Originally Published by New Scientist - Environment
As the death toll continues to climb in the wake of last week’s Cyclone Nargis, it is shown that the path of the cyclone was accurately predicted four days ahead of groundbreak - butNew the information never reached the people in its path.
Posted on
May 15th, 2008
Climate, Earth Observation, Weather, Would You Believe?
Why Didn’t Earth Freeze Under Faint Young Sun?
Originally Published by New Scientist - Space
Why - when the Sun was 25% dimmer tha today - did the Earth not freeze? Some think that greenhouse gas insulation could hold the answer.
Posted on
May 14th, 2008
Climate, Weather, Would You Believe?
Don’t Stop Hurricanes, Guide Them
Originally Published by New Scientist Environment
Weather modification experts advise that the best way to avoid massive destruction associated with hurricanes lies in shifting their paths, not stopping them dead.
Burmese Storm Toll Tops 10,000
Originally Published by BBC News
More than 10,000 people were killed in a devastating cyclone that hit western Burma on Saturday according to Foreign Minister Nyan Win
Tiny Tremors Can Track Extreme Storms In A Warming Planet
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
Data from faint earth tremors caused by wind-driven ocean waves - often dismissed as “background noise” at seismographic stations around the world - suggest extreme ocean storms have become more frequent over the past three decades.
Posted on
April 25th, 2008
Disasters, Earth Observation, Weather
New Atlases Use NASA Data to Chart Ocean Winds
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
Several new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe, based on data from NASA’s QuikScat satellite, are benefiting a wide range of users, from those who sail the seas to those responsible for managing their precious resources.
Posted on
April 24th, 2008
Earth Observation, Weather
Curious Cloud Formations Linked To Quakes
Originally Published by New Scientist - Environment
Following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large earthquakes occurred, geophysicists Guangmeng Guo and Bin Wang of Nanyang Normal University in Henan, China are investigating whether the two phenomena are somehow linked.
Posted on
April 17th, 2008
Disasters, Weather, Would You Believe?
U.S. West Warming Faster Than Rest of World
Originally Published by Environmental News Network
The U.S. West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities.
Posted on
March 29th, 2008
Climate, Ecosystems, Weather
U.S. Spring Season Forecast: More Record Floods
Originally Published by Environment News Service
Major floods across the central United States this week are a preview of the spring seasonal outlook, according to the National Weather Service.
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