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Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Nov 16, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

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 ...

Hurricane Felicia eyeing Hawaii while weakening on weekend

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Aug 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

NASA satellite imagery has helped forecasters see that Hurricane Felicia is running into cooler waters and increasing wind shear, two things have taken her strength "down a peg or two." Felicia will continue ...

NASA Satellites and Baja California on watch as Hurricane Rick approaches

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Oct 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites flew over Hurricane Rick this weekend, and watched the storm strengthen into a major hurricane.

Research supports suggestions that global warming will do little to change hurricane activity

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Aug 12, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (8) | 0

In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science descri ...

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Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear

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Oct 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 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, ...

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

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Nov 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.

NASA microwave image sees eyewall opening in Hurricane Linda

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Sep 10, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Linda managed to power up to hurricane status at 11 p.m. EDT last night (September 9), and she's running into cooler waters and wind shear, so she's not expected to hold that strength through tomorrow. Microwave ...

Gravity Waves Make Tornados

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Mar 19, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (20) | 3

Did you know that there's a new breakfast food that helps meteorologists predict severe storms? Down South they call it "GrITs."

Research Re-examines Strong Hurricane Studies

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Mar 16, 2006 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 0

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have released a study supporting the findings of several studies last year linking an increase in the strength of hurricanes around the world to a global increase ...

NASA's infrared satellite sees warmer cloud tops in Tropical Storm Marty

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Sep 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Marty is struggling to hold onto tropical storm status, and things are just going to get worse for him, as he moves into an area with stronger wind shear. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite ...

New research could help predict red tide

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Feb 19, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a ...

Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 12, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (16) | 6

Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" about a thousand years ago when climate ...

NASA satellite reveals a depressed and disorganized Henri

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Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Depression happens to everyone, even tropical storms, and Henri is now tropically depressed. NASA satellite imagery has confirmed he's weakened to a tropical depression and he is further expected to degenerate ...