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New water management tool may help ease effects of drought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall and streamflow may look like months in advance. A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative ...


What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?

What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even ...


Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 63

Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...


Solar cycle linked to global climate

Solar cycle linked to global climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 47

Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, research led by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., ...


Scientists unveil new seasonal hurricane forecasting model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists at The Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) have developed a new computer model that they hope will predict with unprecedented accuracy how many hurricanes will occur ...


Dust plays larger than expected role in determining Atlantic temperature

Dust plays larger than expected role in determining Atlantic temperature

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years, according to a new study.