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NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized

Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up.

Professor foresees rising Antarctic snowmelt

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Dec 03, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

The 30-year record low in Antarctic snowmelt that occurred during the 2008-09 austral summer was likely due to concurrent strong positive phases for two main climate drivers, ENSO (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and SAM ...

CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

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Dec 03, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 5

Spanish researchers have measured CO2 levels for the past three years in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a sparsely inhabited rural area near Valladolid. The results, which are the first of their kind ...

Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...

Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

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Dec 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...

Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Climatic fluctuations close to the equator show a different pattern to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. In the tropics distinct 11500 year fluctuations between wet and dry periods can be clearly identified which ...

'Super-river' formed the English Channel

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (18) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...

Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification

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Dec 01, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world’s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study.

A closer look at the Hudson Canyon shows why the canyon is critical for fish

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

A series of newly discovered pits in the bottom of the Hudson Canyon, 100 miles southeast of New York Harbor, may be a key ingredient for the abundant and diverse marine ecosystem in and around the canyon, according to research ...

Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

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Dec 01, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...

First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

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Dec 01, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (12) | 3

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...

Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand

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Dec 01, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.

NASA captures Typhoon Nida's clouds from 2 angles

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA satellites capture amazing views of tropical cyclones, and the Aqua and CloudSat satellites captured a top-down look at temperatures in Typhoon Nida's clouds, and an image of what they look like from ...

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

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Nov 30, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (13) | 1

Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...

Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

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Nov 30, 2009 | 4 / 5 (17) | 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.