Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed the cloud top temperatures and water vapor content in Hurricane Sally as it ...

Multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone- NSF grant

Credit: Virginia Tech Look out your window or step outside and look around you. Depending on where you live, you're ...

NASA sees Tropical Depression Rene dissipating

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image ...

NASA-NOAA satellite’s “night vision” find wind shear battering Tropical Storm Vicky

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Infrared imagery is like having night vision, and ...

Johns Hopkins expert leads effort to spur accurate research on climate, COVID-19

Studies declaring link need more data, peer-reviewed confirmation, WMO saysCredit: Johns Hopkins University Ben Zaitchik, a professor of Earth and ...

NASA catches development of eastern Atlantic’s tropical storm Vicky

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed a low-pressure area in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, and it ...

Global study reveals time running out for many soils – but conservation measures can help

A major new international study has provided a first worldwide insight into how soil erosion may be affecting the longevity ...

NASA-NOAA satellite helps confirm Teddy now a record-setting tropical storm

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared image of ...

NASA’s water vapor analysis of Tropical Storm Karina shows wind shear effects

Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it gathered water vapor data on Tropical Storm ...

Researchers create morphing crystals powered by water evaporation

New study details the molecular-level design of materials that enable clean and sustainable water evaporation energy to be harvested and ...

NASA night-time image shows Hurricane Paulette’s large eye approach Bermuda

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Night-time imagery from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed ...

NASA’s Aqua satellite finds Rene barely a depression battered by wind shear

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Depression Rene continues to be the victim of strong wind shear and forecasters anticipate it will ...

Global warming threatens soil phosphorus, says a soil scientist from RUDN University

Credit: RUDN University A soil scientist from RUDN University found out that the resources of organic phosphorus in the soils ...

NASA satellite finds a wedge-shaped Tropical Storm Paulette

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Wind shear was affecting both Tropical Storm Paulette and Rene in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 11. ...

NASA satellite finds an elongated Tropical Storm Rene caused by wind shear

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed an elongated Tropical Storm Rene being battered by wind shear ...

Winds of change move western smoke into the Pacific

Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds ...

Shedding light on coral reefs

New research quantifies light availability on coral reef ecosystemsCredit: Eric Hochberg Earlier this year, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) ...

More than 90% of protected areas are disconnected

Credit: James Wheeler Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth's protected natural areas from ...

Multiphase buffering by ammonia explains wide range of atmospheric aerosol acidity

September 10, 2020

Anthropogenic ammonia emissions and the water content matter more than dry particle composition for the acidity of atmospheric aerosols in ...

Infrared NASA imagery provides Paulette’s temperature palette