News tagged with daytime temperatures
Magnetic Tornadoes Could Liberate Mercury's Tenuous Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is scorching hot, with daytime temperatures of more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 450 degrees Celsius). It is also the smallest rocky ...
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Daily temperature shifts may alter malaria patterns
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Daytime temperature fluctuations greatly alter the incubation period of malaria parasites in mosquitoes and alter transmission rates of the disease. Consideration of these fluctuations reveals a more accurate picture of climate ...
Human activities contribute to California's global warming
Jan 18, 2008 |
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Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Researchers Find Evidence of Warming Climate In Ohio
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Summer nights in Ohio aren't cooling off as much as they used to -- and it's likely a sign of climatic warming across the state, researchers say.
Growing Population Warming East African Nights?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Nights are getting hotter in Nairobi and other inland cities as growing populations change sensitive local weather patterns, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Deadly heat waves are becoming more frequent in California
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2009 |
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From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually high humidity levels for this typically arid region ...
Irrigation may not cool the globe in the future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2007 |
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Expansion of irrigation has masked greenhouse warming in California’s Central Valley, but irrigation may not make much of a difference in the future, according to a new study in the Aug. 13 edition of the ...
The Hot Saturn Exoplanet
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the roughly 350 known exoplanets (i.e., extrasolar planets), the one orbiting the star HD149026 is unique.
Ocean acidification from CO2 emissions will cause physiological impairment to jumbo squid
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The elevated carbon dioxide levels expected to be found in the world's oceans by 2100 will likely lead to physiological impairments of jumbo (or Humboldt) squid, according to research by two ...
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.
Phoenix Lander Sees, Feels Martian Whirlwinds in Action
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has photographed several dust devils dancing across the arctic plain this week and sensed a dip in air pressure as one passed near the lander.
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