News tagged with wind shear
Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...
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Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up.
Poll finds sexting common among young people
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting - sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online - is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim ...
CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers have measured CO2 levels for the past three years in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a sparsely inhabited rural area near Valladolid. The results, which are the first of their kind ...
Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The head of Montana's wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner's private ranch.
China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen
Dec 03, 2009 |
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In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.
Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...
Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...
No widespread impact of wind power projects on surrounding residential property values in the US
Dec 02, 2009 |
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A major new Berkeley Lab report finds that proximity to wind energy facilities does not have a pervasive or widespread adverse effect on the property values of nearby homes.
iPhones are musical instruments in new course and ensemble (w/ Video)
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- iPhones are being used as musical instruments in a new course at the University of Michigan.
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