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QuikScat Sees Santa Barbara 'Quick Dry'

Hot weather just before the Santa Barbara, Calif., wildfire quickly dried up soil moisture from rain one day prior, contributing to the fire danger.

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Hurricane Fred fades with a satellite exclamation point

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the remnants of Fred, September 13 and captured an infrared and visible image of the storm's clouds from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument. Both AIRS images ...

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms

"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the ...

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created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources

Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from ...

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created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 1

NASA Satellites Record A Month For The Hurricane History Books

July 2005 was a record-setting month in the world of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. That's because there were more named storms recorded in the month of July than ever in the hurricane history books.

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created Sep 08, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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