Livestock and poultry farming should be the future focus of agricultural ammonia emissions control
Credit: Jiayu Huang As the only alkaline gas in the atmosphere, ammonia can react with sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Observing the atmosphere at high altitudes using unmanned aeria vehicles
Credit: Qizhen Sun Severe weather conditions such as low air temperatures and strong winds often bring difficulties to scientific expeditions ...
Extra-tropical Cyclone Harold caught by NASA’s Terra Satellite
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific ...
New NUI Galway study helps improve accuracy of future climate change predictions
Study published in Nature's journal -- Climate and Atmospheric ScienceCredit: NUI Galway New research published by NUI Galway's Centre for ...
Tracking Southern Hemisphere black carbon to Antarctic snow
Credit: Luciano Marquetto Black carbon (BC) measurements in Antarctica are still scarce, but necessary to understand the particle's effect in ...
NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Harold between Vanuatu and Fiji
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Harold brought heavy rains and hurricane-force ...
NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold
Credit: Credit: JAXA/Jason West, NASA EOSDIS One of NASA's satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Irondro’s heavy rainfall displaced
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Irondro's rainfall and found heaviest rainfall was being pushed far southeast of the center ...
Deep-sea worms and bacteria team up to harvest methane
Credit: Alvin/WHOI Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches Tropical Cyclone Harold develop near Solomon Islands
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific ...
NASA sees tropical cyclone Irondro developing an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview As Tropical Cyclone Irondro continues to move through the Southern Indian Ocean, NASA's Terra satellite saw ...
Study synthesizes what climate change means for Northwest wildfires
Credit: Darryl Lloyd Recent years have brought unusually large and damaging wildfires to the Pacific Northwest - from the Carlton ...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in new Tropical Cyclone Irondro
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in the newly formed Tropical Cyclone Irondro using infrared light to determine ...
The candy-cola soda geyser experiment, at different altitudes
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b01177 Dropping Mentos® candies into a bottle of soda causes a ...
A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica
90-million-year-old forest soil provides unexpected evidence for exceptionally warm climate near the South Pole in the CretaceousCredit: © Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Johann Klages ...
Smaller than expected phytoplankton may mean less carbon sequestered at sea bottom
Credit: Photo courtesy Luis Bolaños, OSU. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study that included the first-ever winter sampling of phytoplankton in ...
Flooding stunted 2019 cropland growing season, resulting in more atmospheric CO2
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Severe flooding throughout the Midwest--which triggered a delayed growing season for crops in the region--led to a reduction ...
LANL news: High altitude water Cherenkov Observatory tests speed of light
Ultra-high energy gamma rays from the far reaches of the galaxy provide powerful proof that the predictions of relativity, including ...
Under extreme heat and drought, trees hardly benefit from an increased CO2 level
Studies of Aleppo Pines reveal: The increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere does not compensate the negative ...
OSU research paves way to improved cleanup of contaminated groundwater
Credit: OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Beads that contain bacteria and a slow-release food supply to sustain them ...