News tagged with ocean models

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Researchers meet to refine carbon budget for US East Coast

A group of 35 researchers from institutions all along the eastern seaboard gathered at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science last week to further integrate and refine field measurements and computer models ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today's severe drought, tomorrow's normal

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s grips Oklahoma and Texas, scientists are warning that what we consider severe drought conditions in North America today may be normal ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Baby turtles don't just go with the flow

At just a few centimeters long, hatchling loggerhead turtles may seem powerless to resist being swept around the Atlantic Ocean by powerful currents.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

La Nina returns, but weaker impact seen: UN weather agency

The UN weather agency said on Thursday that La Nina, a phenomenon linked to flooding and drought, had re-emerged in the tropical Pacific since August but its impact is expected to be weaker this time.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA readies new type of Earth-observing satellite for launch

NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New computer model better explains workings of tsunamis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because they occur so infrequently, more often than not in areas where they aren’t recorded very well, scientists have been working nearly blind in trying to understand how tsunamis work ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Supercomputers may help predict climate changes locally

Even a century ago, scientists working out equations on paper understood that gases in the atmosphere absorbed and emitted energy, keeping Earth from being a ball of ice. Today they use supercomputers to make increasingly ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 07, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 21

Rising oceans - too late to turn the tide?

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Warming ocean layers will undermine polar ice sheets

Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 03, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (14) | comments 101 | with audio podcast

New NASA salt mapper to spice up climate forecasts

Salt is essential to human life. Most people don't know, however, that salt -- in a form nearly the same as the simple table variety -- is just as essential to Earth's ocean, serving as a critical driver of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet

Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial Basin, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Quantifying melting glaciers' effect on ocean currents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from Bangor University and the University of Sheffield have used a computer climate model to study how freshwater entering the oceans at the end of ice-ages 140,000 years ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Eddies found to be deep, powerful modes of ocean transport

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues have discovered that massive, swirling ocean eddies -- known to be up to 500 kilometers across at the surface ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast