News tagged with sea surface

NASA sees wide-eyed cyclone Jasmine

Cyclone Jasmine's eye has opened wider on NASA satellite imagery, as it moves through the Southern Pacific Ocean.

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?

In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA sees Tropical Storm 12S - a possible threat to Madagascar

The twelfth tropical depression formed in the Southern Indian Ocean today and quickly became a tropical storm, dubbed Tropical Storm 12S. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm and captured infrared data that revealed ...

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NASA satellite sees tropical storm Cyril a strong, compact storm

Tropical Storm Cyril was known as "11P" has been strengthening since February 6, and still appears very compact on infrared NASA satellite data.

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Aqua satellite sees small new tropical storm near Tonga

Tropical Storm 11P has formed in the South Pacific Ocean, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of its cloud temperatures, revealing power in the cyclone.

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe

British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Climate balancing: Sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates

Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pinot noir grapes reveal 700-year climate record

The French call pinot noir "the noble grape" and have long considered it a source of inspiration. Now it can also be appreciated as the reason for an extensive, localized climate record.

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Via research aircraft instead of dog sled

With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Jason-1 achieves a one-decade landmark

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA sees Tropical Storm Alenga intensifying

NASA's TRMM satellite passed over Tropical Storm Alenga and noticed that the rainfall has intensified in the storm in the last two days indicating that it continues strengthening.

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World temps maintain the heat of global warming

2011 is currently tied for the 10th hottest since records began in 1850 and Arctic sea ice has shrunk to record-low volumes this year, the U.N. weather office said Tuesday.

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created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 69

Hurricane Kenneth becomes late-season record-breaking major hurricane

NASA satellites have been watching hurricane Kenneth in the eastern Pacific, and today, Nov, 22, Kenneth became a late-season major hurricane. In fact, Kenneth sets a record for the latest season major hurricane ...

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created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's NPP satellite acquires first VIIRS image

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on Nov. 21, 2011. This high-resolution image is of a broad swath of ...

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created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0