News tagged with jet streams
The high winds of the upper atmosphere contain less renewable energy than previously assumed
It seems that the energy mix of the future will have to differ from the current suggestions of some visionaries. This is because the jet streams that sweep the upper atmosphere with high winds would yield ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes
Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Stalled weather systems more frequent in decades of warmer Atlantic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Fewer rain storms across southern Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region – a trend which is forecast to ...
Jul 04, 2011 |
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What's to blame for wild weather? 'La Nada'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2011 |
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What's down with the Sun? Major drop in solar activity predicted
(PhysOrg.com) -- A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Changes in weather patterns creating more severe storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University climate expert attributes the increase in the number and severity of tornadoes and severe storms in 2011 to a change in weather patterns.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2011 |
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TRMM maps a wet spring, 2011 for the Central U.S.
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been keeping track of the drenching rainfall that has been occurring in the central U.S. this springtime, and a newly created rain ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2011 |
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Scientists try to harness super-winds that once carried bombs
The man from the Forest Service burst into the switchboard room with orders for the young operator. Keep quiet, he told Cora Conner, 16. Stay put.
Aug 20, 2010 |
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What caused the Leamington tornado? UWO professor has a theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Weather experiments conducted by a University of Western Ontario professor and his research team may hold clues to what caused the violent winds that hit Leamington, Ontario earlier this week.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Iceland ash emissions at 'insignificant' level: expert
Only an "insignificant" amount of ash is erupting from Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano, one of the country's leading seismologists said Wednesday, as European skies finally began to clear, allowing air traffic ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Volcanic Ash Research Shows How Plumes End up in the Jet Stream
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University at Buffalo volcanologist, an expert in volcanic ash cloud transport, published a paper recently showing how the jet stream, the area in the atmosphere that pilots prefer to fly in, also seems ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Researchers Determine Winter Moisture Linked to Rapid Glacial Climate Shifts
(PhysOrg.com) -- If past records regarding periods of warming and cooling climate are an accurate indication of weather patterns, then the southwestern United States is likely headed into a period of severe long-term drought ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Underground gases tell the story of ice ages -- and America's split jet stream
(PhysOrg.com) -- Deep underground aquifers in the American Southwest contain gases that tell of the region's ancient climate, and support a growing consensus that the jet stream over North America was once ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness
(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2009 |
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