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The Pacific Ocean is not expected to produce massive hurricanes this season, according to models compiled by climatologists. While it is possible that several large tropical storms will develop, the overall intensity of the hurricane season is expected to be below the average set over the past years.
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24 May 2012
11:04 GMT |
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As global warming is leading to the loss of more and more ice in the Arctic, new shipping routes are becoming available in areas where ice has previously made traffic impossible. Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will soon release a map of such an area.
Their new nautical ch... |
23 May 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Scientists conducting an investigation in the Gulf of Mexico have recently come across the wreck of a wooden-hulled ship that apparently sank around 200 years ago. The researchers were able to investigate the vessel using a Robotic Underwater Vehicle (ROV).
The scientific expedition, conducted by experts with the US... |
17 May 2012
05:18 GMT |
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Maps produced by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey (OCS) have recently been made available to the general public, in an online database. The maps cover sea floors around the world.
They primarily focus on continental shelves, the deep ocean, and coastal areas... |
17 April 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) say that they were recently able to complete the development of a new type of small sensor, which could come in handy for numerous practical applications.
These include sampling gas contents and concentrations above battlefield... |
10 April 2012
08:41 GMT |
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The United Launch Alliance, a collaborative effort between The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin, announces that its Atlas V delivery system has been selected for launching the next generation of weather satellites into geostationary orbit.
Officials made the announcement on Thursday, April 5. They say that the two... |
10 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Now here's something you don't see every day, Australia covered in green. Throughout this February, elevated levels of precipitations led to an outburst in vegetation throughout most of the country, but especially in its eastern sector.
A wet summer is to thank for this situation. Usually, conditions on t... |
17 March 2012
07:20 GMT |
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The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP) has now entered active service, after spending the past few weeks undergoing various tests in space. The commissioning phase is now complete, and the most advanced, inter-agency spacecraft built thus far is ready for use. “By providing cutting-edge m... |
8 March 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Officials from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that the Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite has been successfully turned on.
The spacecraft launched to orbit on October 28, 2011, aboard a Delta II delivery system, from the Space Launch ... |
24 February 2012
03:27 GMT |
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The budget presented by the White House today proposes that the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receive a 3 percent boost in overall funding for fiscal year 2013. This would bring the total funds made available to the organization to $5.06 billion (€3.85 billion).
The good news is that the cr... |
14 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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While yardsticks may be sufficiently-suited for measuring snow levels for some applications, they are entirely inadequate for planning vital decisions in terms of transportation, water management and other such situations. Scientists are now using GPS and lasers to develop a new measuring method. Specialized lasers ... |
14 February 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Experts managing the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, formerly the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project, say that the spacecraft has just turned on an instrument that will make it extremely suited for weather forecasting.
The satell... |
9 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite N (GOES-13), operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observed this massive cold front heading towards the United States on Thursday, January 26.
The massive cloud was bound to cause severe weather, and will most likely continue t... |
27 January 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that spacecraft operated by the agency were essential to the rescue of 207 people last year, throughout the United States and surrounding waters. All of these individuals were lost hikers, downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and people ... |
24 January 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Throughout last year, heat and precipitation levels in the United States reached historic levels, and were accompanied by extensive flooding and other severe weather events. Combined, these occurrences led to 2011 establishing a high number of records as far as climate extremes go.
Some of these unusual weather pat... |
20 January 2012
03:52 GMT |
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US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigators established in a new study that the sounds emitted by scientific tracking equipment used to monitor whales is affecting the way in which the animals behave. The effect is visible even 120 miles (193 kilometers) away.
The issue with monitoring eq... |
17 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Oil spills are man-made disasters that often disrupt the balance of marine environments. A new study reveals another disturbing fact, highlighting that such incidents have a much more harmful impact than previously thought.
The new report, issued due to a collaboration between NOAA and the UC Davis Bodega Marine La... |
28 December 2011
06:00 GMT |
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After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, and sank into the Gulf of Mexico two days later, as much as 1 in every 13 barrels of spilled oil was eventually turned into particles that made their way into the atmosphere, rather than being deposited in the sea.
The conclusion belongs to a new study, whic... |
20 December 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that this November had the 12th warmest air temperatures on record, and the third smallest sea ice extent since records began being kept. Sea ice was 11.5 percent below the normal average.
The analysis was compiled by the NOAA Climate Pr... |
16 December 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Yesterday, December 1, saw the release of this year's Arctic Report Card (ARC), which is being developed annually by researchers around the world. The document indicates the North Pole to be entering a warmer period, with changed climate and ice patterns.
The main conclusion is that the Arctic will from now on... |
2 December 2011
02:44 GMT |
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An international collaboration of investigators has recently established that excessive pollution released over the Indian Ocean is directly tied to an increase in the intensity of tropical cyclones affecting the Arabian Sea. The link was proposed long ago, but insufficient evidences existed to demonstrate it.
For t... |
29 November 2011
03:39 GMT |
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A group of scientists and researchers from Florida have recently found out that their efforts of protecting the fate of sea turtles paid off and will still be recognized and awarded in the next two years.
Experts received $227,793 for the first year in which they tried to explain how the red tide is killing many su... |
22 November 2011
07:35 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just released its latest Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) report, and the document does not bring about good news. It shows that carbon dioxide concentrations around the world are increasing. This upward trend has been going on since the 1880s, which i... |
10 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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According to official statistics released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), no less than 86 percent of the entire northeastern regions of the country were covered in as much as 4.4 inches (11 centimeters) of snow as of Monday morning, October 31.
Such a situation has never been encoun... |
1 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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External cameras aboard the international Space Station (ISS) picked up new views of the developing Hurricane Rina, which is currently located over the Caribbean Sea, east of the Belize Islands. The storm looks impressive indeed. ISS Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum said that the hurricane was indeed big. Analys... |
27 October 2011
08:31 GMT |
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A NASA mission meant to emulate the conditions of exploring a near-Earth asteroid by putting astronauts to work in an underwater environment ended earlier than planned due to the growing threat that Hurricane Rina posed to the experiment.
The 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO15) was brought to... |
27 October 2011
02:40 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just awarded a series of grant funds to research teams, for the installation of scientific instrument suites in the Gulf of Maine. The instruments will keep track of algal blooms in the area, and also predict when such events might occur.
According to s... |
20 October 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that they are now using a new, sophisticated space weather prediction model, which is bound to increase the organization's ability to improve on its current climate forecasting skills.
The model could therefore be used in the c... |
20 October 2011
03:10 GMT |
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The results of a study conducted by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicate that the Great Lakes will lose less water in the near future than what other investigations proposed they would.
Understanding how this critical economic area will react to global warming and climate change ... |
20 October 2011
03:03 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that they have recently designated a portion of the existing, 22-square mile Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the Georgia coast a research area.
This implies that the southern half of the 57-square-kilometer area is no... |
14 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Officials from the American space agency announced yesterday, October 12, that their newest weather and climate satellite will launch on October 27, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), in California. This mission has been a long time coming.
Dubbed the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satel... |
13 October 2011
02:44 GMT |
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The most recent analysis from experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicates that the month of September brought a wide array of climate irregularities to the United States. The change in patterns was not consistent throughout the country.
In fact, researchers say, the western a... |
8 October 2011
05:35 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that the research vessel Rainier has just begun a month-long mapping operation in the Arctic. The goal here is to produce an accurate, up-to-date map of the Arctic sea floor.
At this point, ship captains operate their vessels bas... |
22 September 2011
03:53 GMT |
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About 0.5 percent of all oil that was dumped in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill – the equivalent of 1 in 20 barrels – was burned during the first days of response to the emergency. A new study quantifies the effects this decision had on the environment.
As the mas... |
21 September 2011
04:24 GMT |
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NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have just awarded a new contract to Azusa, California-based Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, for the development of an advanced instrument that will go on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) satellite.
Northrop now benefits fr... |
15 September 2011
04:57 GMT |
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According to experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the La Niña phenomenon is beginning to reemerge in the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean. Predictions indicate that it will continue to do so throughout the winter. During the first ... |
10 September 2011
07:02 GMT |
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During an expedition to the Mid-Cayman Rise south of Grand Cayman Island, in the Caribbean, a group of experts managed to discover two new species of animals, living in the incredibly-harsh conditions around a hydrothermal vent.
These structures are spots on the oceanic crust where gases and heat from the Earth&#... |
8 September 2011
04:12 GMT |
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As the Sun is approaching the peak of its current cycle, it is producing massive solar flares increasingly often. For the third time this year, an X-class event took place on the surface of the star. Just a few hours ahead, it was preceded by an M-class storm.
These instances of increased solar activity took plac... |
7 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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According to official statistics provided by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), it would appear that this year's July was the seventh warmest on record. This record spans back all the way to 1880. It was then that meteorologists began keeping accur... |
16 August 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Solar physicists say that the Sun released its most powerful solar flare in four years yesterday, August 9. The class-X6.9 event was so intense that it briefly knocked out HF communications, but the full effects of the event will most likely not be felt on Earth. The eruption itself was not aimed at our planet, which... |
10 August 2011
09:34 GMT |
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According to officials managing the NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP), the spacecraft has recently successfully completed all of its assessments, and is now readty to advance to the next stage. Both the actual satellite and the five-piece scient... |
9 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The results of a new analysis conducted by experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that the effects and spread of global warming could be reduced if emissions of greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide are regulated as well.
Granted, CO2 accounts for a level of warming of no... |
4 August 2011
02:53 GMT |
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According to a new study conducted by experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it would appear that a recent increase in the amounts of aerosols available in our planet's atmosphere managed to offset about a third of the warming effects of carbon dioxide. This means that the pote... |
22 July 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Members of the US House Appropriations Committee have adopted the bill that cancels the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA is developing, two satellite missions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and severely hampers progress on many other missions.The vote on a 2012 spending bill took... |
14 July 2011
03:00 GMT |
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While the fact that the planet is warming is well known, the idea may be a little bit too abstract for some. Now, experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have just released the new weather “normals” for the country.
These values – which are updated every 10 years ... |
9 July 2011
04:07 GMT |
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Remote areas of the Arctic will receive the visit of the research ship the Fairweather, which experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are now using to conduct hydrographic surveys in unstudied regions.The Arctic areas where the Fairweather will be conducting its investigation have nev... |
8 July 2011
05:29 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the 2010 State of the Climate report today, and the main conclusion of the new document is that last year was one of the two warmest ever recorded.The report, released on June 27, has already been reviewed by peers, who attested that the data and ... |
29 June 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Experts with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have just released new statistics, which indicate that the month of May, 2011, was the 10th warmest in recorded history.Accurate data measurements began being kept around 1880, and meteorologists and researchers have been keeping a close eye o... |
16 June 2011
10:44 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from multiple government agencies set out on June 4 on an expedition meant to analyze and map the deepwater canyons that exist at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.The research effort will be focused on an areas about 100 miles off the coast of Virginia and Maryland, where many of these ... |
10 June 2011
05:42 GMT |
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According to experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it would appear that the La Niña phenomenon has stopped in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean.The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) says that ENSO-neutral conditions have developed in the area... |
10 June 2011
04:49 GMT |
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