See the tracks of 2008 storms from Arthur to Paloma from birth to death.
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space today after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Scientists know that aerosols play an outsized role in Earth’s climate, and much of that knowledge has come from the Aerosol Robotic Network, or AERONET, a collaborative, international sensor network.
A deadly earthquake rocked Honduras, but SERVIR helped disaster officials know exactly where to send help.
A NASA satellite, now entering its second decade, has revolutionized marine weather forecasts.
The Heterogeneous Reaction of Hydroxyl Radicals with Sub-Micron Squalane Particles: a Model System for Understanding the Oxidative Aging of Ambient Aerosols, Smith, J. D., Kroll, J. H., Cappa, C. D., Che, D. L., Liu, C. L., Ahmed, M., Leone, S. R., Worsnop, D. R., and Wilson, K. R., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, May 18, 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 9)
Constraints on the Lake Volume Required for Hydro-Fracture Through Ice Sheets, Krawczynski, M. J., M. D. Behn, S. B. Das, and I. Joughin, Geophysical Research Letters, May 16, 2009 (Vol. 36, L10501, doi:10.1029/2008GL036765)
Trans-Pacific Dust Transport: Integrated Analysis of NASA/CALIPSO and a Global Aerosol Transport Model, Eguchi, K., Uno, I., Yumimoto, K., Takemura, T., Shimizu, A., Sugimoto, N., and Liu, Z., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, May 14, 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 9)
Prevalence of Extended Reconnection X-Lines in the Solar Wind at 1 AU, Phan, T. D., J. T. Gosling, and M. S. Davis, Geophysical Research Letters, May 14, 2009 (Vol. 36, L09108, doi:10.1029/2009GL037713)
Stratospheric Ozone During the Last Glacial Maximum, Rind, D., J. Lerner, C. McLinden, and J. Perlwitz, Geophysical Research Letters, May 14, 2009 (Vol. 36, L09712, doi:10.1029/2009GL037617)
To determine just how high temperatures may climb and how climate patterns may shift, researchers may need to pinpoint, for comparison, a time in our planet's past when a similar carbon dioxide jump happened, but doing that may have just gotten a lot tougher -- a new study says atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven't been this high in more than two million years. (National Geographic News) more...
Scientists have long thought the magnetic field, which protects life on Earth from harmful solar and cosmic radiation, is generated by rotation of an iron core that acts like a dynamo, but a controversial new study posits that the flow of seawater causes minor fluctuations in the magnetic field. (Live Science) more...
As the fabled Dead Sea shrinks from a dire water shortage, it leaves sinkholes that can open up in an instant, sucking in whatever lies above and leaving the surrounding area looking like an earthquake zone. (ABC News) more...
After a long gap, scientists in Nepal have embarked on the first field studies of Himalayan glacial lakes, some of which are feared to be swelling dangerously due to global warming. (BBC News) more...
The tropical tempest Andres strengthened into the Pacific season's first hurricane, flooding homes, toppling trees and killing at least one person as it swiped Mexico's southwestern coast with wind and rain. (Associated Press/CBS News) more...
Researchers have found that wind speeds across the country have decreased by an average of 0.5 percent to 1 percent per year since 1973. (Iowa State University press release)
The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ecosystems, according to a study conducted by US Forest Service and university scientists. (USDA Forest Service press release)
Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area's fall and winter may effect tornado activity the following spring. (University of Georgia press release)
Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to a new study. (NOAA Headquarters press release)
Scientists have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years, and comparison of this record with data on global climate and CO2 levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even stabilization at today's CO2 levels may commit us to much greater sea-level rise over the next couple of millennia than previously thought. (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) press release)