NASA is all "a-Twitter" about its tropical cyclone research.
A new image from AIRS shows the transport of carbon dioxide across the globe.
The latest image from the U.S./French Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Niño.
Cyclone Phyan broke a 43 year record when it made landfall north of the city of Mumbai, India during the evening hours on November 11.
Thanks to NASA's GOES Project, individuals can now access real-time satellite data from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Biophysical Evaluation of Land-Cover Products for Land–Climate Modeling, Jianjun Ge, Nathan Torbick, and Jiaguo Qi, Earth Interactions, August 2009 (Vol. 13, doi: 10.1175/2009EI276.1)
Study of Columnar Aerosol Size Distribution in Hong Kong, Yang, X. and Wenig, M., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, August 31, 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 16)
Factors Controlling Contrail Cirrus Optical Depth, Kärcher, B., Burkhardt, U., Unterstrasser, S., and Minnis, P., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, August 31, 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 16)
Development of a Land Surface Heating Index–Based Method to Locate Regions of Potential Mesoscale Circulation Formation, Walker, J. R., J. R. Mecikalski, K. R. Knupp, and W. M. MacKenzie Jr., Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, August 29, 2009 (Vol. 114, D16112, doi:10.1029/2009JD011853)
Signature of the Atmospheric Compressibility Factor in COSMIC, CHAMP, and GRACE Radio Occultation Data, Aparicio, J. M., G. Deblonde, L. Garand, and S. Laroche, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, August 29, 2009 (Vol. 114, D16114, doi:10.1029/2008JD011156)
During the warm periods between recent ice ages, temperatures in Antarctica reached substantially higher levels than scientists had previously thought. (Nature News) more...
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. (Associated Press/ABC News) more...
A European satellite launched to study the Earth's water cycle returns its first data, confirming its novel instrument is working well. (BBC News) more...
Fish reared in water acidified by CO2 may become "fatally attracted" to the smell of their predators, say scientists. (BBC News) more...
About 15,000 years ago, some of the largest mammals in North America disappeared off the face of the Earth, and the spores of a fungus that thrived in and on those creatures' dung suggest changes in habitat didn't cause the extinctions. (Discovery News) more...
Satellite images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in Kenya's section of the African Rift show deformation of four active volcanoes, which underscores the possibility for human hazard. (University of Miami press release)
A new study examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. (Lehigh University press release)
A study concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures. (Purdue University press release)
The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling, and based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release)
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. (Ohio State University press release)