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Cassini Maps Global Pattern of Titan's Dunes
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Titan's vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn's biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data ...
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Sea Level Rise Due to Global Warming Poses Threat to New York City
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U.S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater ...
Crickets may predict human survivability during global warming
Mar 11, 2009 |
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How well crickets adapt to rising temperatures may provide clues about whether or not humans can survive global warming.
Melting Greenland ice sheets may threaten Northeast United States, Canada
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May 27, 2009 |
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Melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United ...
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 ...
Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements ...
Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation Will Make for Uneven Ozone Recovery
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's ozone layer should eventually recover from the unintended destruction brought on by the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals in the 20th century. ...
Researchers perform multi-century
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Using state-of-the-art supercomputers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientists have performed a 400-year high-resolution global ocean-atmosphere simulation with results that are more similar ...
Study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia
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Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in the future, according to a recent ...
Wind patterns could mask effects of global warming in ocean
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that natural variability in the earth’s atmosphere could be masking the overall effect of global warming in the North Atlantic Ocean. The research is published in journal ...
Human-generated aerosols affect our weather
Jan 22, 2008 |
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The rise of human-generated pollution in the global atmosphere is forcing a change in ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere, in turn affecting our region’s weather systems.
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