Dual-polarization radars for forecasting heavy rainfall in China: Research and development
Credit: Gang Chen China is an example of a country that suffers severe damage caused by high-impact weather and accompanying ...
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Indian Ocean causes drought and heatwaves in South America
2013/2014 marine heatwave in South Atlantic and drought in South America caused by massive convection over Indian OceanCredit: Dr. Regina ...
NASA peers into hurricane Barbara’s heavy rainfall
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL/NOAA The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the storm and measured the rate in ...
Using artificial intelligence to better predict severe weather
Researchers create AI algorithm to detect cloud formations that lead to storms When forecasting weather, meteorologists use a number of ...
Barbara now a major hurricane on NASA satellite imagery
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the Eastern ...
Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north
Credit: Craig Chandler/University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked ...
NASA finds winds tore Tropical Storm 04W apart
Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone 04W had been torn apart from wind shear in ...
NASA looks at Tropical Storm Barbara’s heavy rainfall
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Storm Barbara formed on Sunday, June 30 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over 800 miles from the ...
Two-degree climate goal attainable without early infrastructure retirement
But achieving 1.5-degree climate-stabilizing goal requires power plants and other energy infrastructure to be retired earlyCredit: Public domain Washington, DC--If ...
The chemistry behind black powder (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 27, 2019 -- Old-school gunpowder is really called "black powder," and it was ...
Climate impact of clouds made from airplane contrails may triple by 2050
Credit: Bock and Burkhardt, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2019 In the right conditions, airplane contrails can linger in the sky as ...
Significant UK air quality improvements over past 40 years cut death rates
Policies to improve air quality in the UK over the past 40 years have led to significant reductions in pollution ...
Department of Energy announces $13 million for atmospheric research
27 projects aim to improve predictive power of computer models WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ...
New research shows how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the sea
The findings of a research expedition to coastal Greenland which examined, for the first time, how melting ice is affecting ...
Which climates are best for passive cooling technologies?
If you guessed locations with drier atmospheres and frequent clear skies, you're rightCredit: Carlos Coimbra WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2019 ...
Conceptual model can explain how thunderstorm clouds bunch together
Credit: Jan Härter Understanding how the weather and climate change is one of the most important challenges in science today. ...
Study finds link between hypertension and air pollution
A new study soon to appear in the Journal of Public Health suggests that air pollution and living in apartment ...
Clouds dominate uncertainties in predicting future Greenland melt
Credit: University of Bristol New research led by climate scientists from the University of Bristol suggests that the representation of ...
Northern lights’ social networking reveals true scale of magnetic storms
Magnetic disturbances caused by phenomena like the northern lights can be tracked by a 'social network' of ground-based instruments, according ...
Do ice cores help to unravel the clouds of climate history?
International team measures ice nuclei from Arctic clouds of the past 500 years for the first timeCredit: Photo: Heike Wex, ...