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Cyclone Bijli's rainfall -- from birth to death (w/Video)
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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Before satellites, meteorologists had no way to estimate or measure how much rain tropical cyclones generated where there were no buoys with rain gauges. The satellite managed by NASA and the Japanese Space ...
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Weather network expands into 10 states
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Jan 22, 2008 |
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Colorado State University's Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network is beginning its 10th year with the addition of 10 new states.
New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida (w/ Video)
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Global warming to triple rain over Taiwan: scientist
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday.
NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...
Improving China's acid rain control strategy
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Scientists are reporting the first evidence that China's sharp focus on reducing widespread damage to soil by acid rain by restricting sulfur dioxide air pollution may have an unexpected consequence: Gains ...
NASA data link pollution to rainy summer days in the southeast
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Feb 02, 2008 |
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Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends. Scientists say air pollution from humans is likely driving that trend.
EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental ...
Mysteries of Rain and Snow
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Mar 05, 2007 |
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People have lived with rain and snow for millennia, and scientists have studied weather for more than a century. You might think that, after all that time, we would have precipitation pretty much figured out. ...
Scientists detect trends in rainfall traits from drizzles to downpours
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Mar 05, 2007 |
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall ...
NASA 3-D map shows flooding rains of Typhoon Ketsana in Philippines
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite, orbits the Earth and measures the amount of rainfall created by a tropical cyclone. When Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Phillippines as "Ondoy") made ...
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