News tagged with tropical


NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern ...


NASA satellites make a movie and get rainfall, wind info on Ida

NASA satellites make a movie and get rainfall, wind info on Ida (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellites are amazing examples of technology. The TRMM satellite peers into tropical cyclones and can tell how much rain is falling per hour and where. QuikScat uses microwave technology to measure Ida's ...


NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts

NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Ida and captured her rainfall when she passed by Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize this weekend. TRMM data revealed ...


The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall

The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle ...


Coral reefs inspire rare consensus -- just save them

Coral reefs inspire rare consensus -- just save them

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the first set of studies to examine what tourists and recreation enthusiasts actually think about coral reef ecosystems suggests they are a rare exception to controversies over human use versus environmental ...


Researchers design new strategy to find drugs to treat neglected infection

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, ...


Mirinae floods Philippines, makes landfall in Vietnam with strong thunderstorms

Mirinae floods Philippines, makes landfall in Vietnam with strong thunderstorms

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mirinae (Santi) caused 12 hours of flooding rains in the Philippines when it crossed the northern Luzon region over the weekend. On October 31 at 5 a.m. Local (Asia/Manila) Time (October 30 at 2100 UTC) Typhoon ...


NASA satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines

Aqua satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.


Typhoon Mirinae is already scaring Philippine residents before Halloween

Typhoon Mirinae is already scaring Philippine residents before Halloween

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31. Mirinae will be the fourth ...


Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas

Mirinae intensifying while moving away from the northern Marianas

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend. As Mirinae has moved west, NASA's infrared and microwave satellite imagery ...


Maize research reduces poverty in west and central Africa

Biology / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An analysis of three and half decades of maize research in African farming communities finds big benefits. A multi-country study, in Agricultural Economics, reports the significant role international maize research plays ...


Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...


Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear

Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two ingredients that don't mix well with tropical cyclones are waters cooler than 80 degrees Fahrenheit and wind shear. Those two ingredients were added into Tropical Depression Neki's mix late yesterday, ...


Surveys for major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa can be integrated

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is possible to simultaneously survey a number of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in the challenging environment of Southern Sudan, according to a new study published October 27 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...


A 2-for-1 for NASA's Aqua satellite: Lupit and 23W in Western Pacific

A 2-for-1 for NASA's Aqua satellite: Lupit and 23W in Western Pacific

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It seems like a common occurrence this season that there are two tropical cyclones spinning in the Western Pacific Ocean and this week, Lupit and newly formed 23W are proof. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over ...