News tagged with extratropical cyclones
QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the ...
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Cyclones spurt water into the stratosphere, feeding global warming
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming.
NASA gets a 3-D look at Neki becoming extra-tropical
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Oct 26, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites are watching Tropical Storm Neki become extra-tropical, and TRMM data was used to create a three-dimensional image of the storm.
Bangladesh introduces SMS cyclone alert system
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Bangladesh is trialling a text message service to warn people of natural disasters, including floods and cyclones, a government official said Wednesday.
Lifecycles of tropical cyclones predicted in global computer model
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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The initial results of the first computer model that simulates the global atmosphere with a detailed representation of individual clouds have been analyzed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center ...
Fast and cheap forecasting system for Mediterranean cyclones
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May 26, 2009 |
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The Mediterranean region is a very active cyclone area, and is often affected by these atmospheric phenomena, which bring strong winds and heavy rain. Despite the efforts of the scientific community to improve numerical cyclone ...
Warmer seas linked to strengthening hurricanes
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. The study will be ...
Aqua satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.
Storm killers: Earth Scan Lab tracks cold water upwellings in Gulf
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity and duration of a hurricane or tropical weather event. As researchers ...
Earth from Space: Typhoon Melor
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Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This Envisat image captures Typhoon Melor spinning in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the Philippines on 6 October before slamming into the main Japanese island of Honshu on Thursday.
A NASA 2-for-1: Carlos and Dolores in 1 satellite image
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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It's not too often that two tropical cyclones are close enough to each other to be within a satellite's view as it tracks far above the Earth, but it happened this week with Carlos and Dolores in the Eastern ...
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