News tagged with stormy conditions
Research Analyzes Flow Structure Under Breaking Waves
Feb 19, 2009 |
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In landlocked South Dakota, hundreds of miles and 1,600 feet of elevation from the nearest ocean, South Dakota State University professor Francis Ting studies the structure of breaking waves like those that ...
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Stormy weather could stall weekend shuttle launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Stormy weather could stall this weekend's launch of space shuttle Endeavour.
China builds observatory at South Pole
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2008 |
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An international team led by China has installed an automated space observatory at Dome Argus, the highest point on the South Pole.
Equatorial region known for massive storms
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms, a nearly continuous band of colliding weather systems near the equator where the Air France jet vanished in the night.
Energetic bottleneck factors in catastrophic winter seabird losses
Jul 17, 2009 |
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It's a terrible sight: hundreds of dead seabirds washed up on the seashore. These catastrophic events occur in the winter and are known as winter wrecks. No one knows why the birds perish, and it is almost impossible to study ...
NASA fuels space shuttle for 6th launch try
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hoping stormy skies clear in time, NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour for a sixth launch attempt Wednesday, the eve of the 40th anniversary of the liftoff for the first moon landing.
Indian burial site found near New York
Oct 27, 2005 |
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Heavy rains and high waves last week uncovered what might be an important early American Indian burial site at Indian Island County Park in Riverhead, N.Y.
Portuguese wave-power snake dead in the water
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Opened in September as a world "first" in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
La Niña Anomaly Could Affect Winter Weather in Colorado
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strong La Niña that developed early last winter, only to disappear this summer, is showing signs of life again and could affect our winter weather, said University of Colorado at Boulder and NOAA atmospheric ...
Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Satellite images acquired from 23 to 25 August 2006 have shown for the first time dramatic openings – over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles – in the Arctic’s perennial sea ice pack ...
Ocean robots network achieves universal coverage
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Scientist’s efforts to fathom how the oceans influence climate and fisheries productivity enter a new era this month with the milestone establishment of a network of 3,000 futuristic, 1.5-metre tall ocean robots operating ...
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