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Hurricane Irene, a Category 3 storm that struck North America in August 2011, is not an “100-year event,” as some experts have suggested. Rather than being an anomaly, a new study shows, it represents a clear indicator of how storm intensity will evolve as global warming progresses.
Investigators at the ... |
13 February 2012
08:34 GMT |
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Officials managing the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer constellation say that an innovative microwave radiometer aboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite is helping the spacecraft contribute to hurricane forecasts.
The spacecraft was developed for measuring ocean salinity and s... |
11 February 2012
04:08 GMT |
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As climate models become increasingly more complex and precise, they also become potentially more useful for predicting the strength and intensity of hurricane seasons. Focusing on such small-scale events is however very difficult with appropriate tools. And these tools are now being developed.
“We’re ... |
7 December 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Officials with Northrop Grumman announce that the American space agency will be using the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) next year, as part of the multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) survey.The purpose of the program is to study how hurricanes and other types of tropical storms form over t... |
24 October 2011
10:39 GMT |
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For the first time ever, scientists were able to calculate the exact speed of winds within dust devils that form on the surface of the Red Planet. Thus far, investigators were only capable of measuring how fast th devils themselves were moving, but not how fast they were spinning themselves. These formations kick up ... |
17 October 2011
19:01 GMT |
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In mid-December 2010, astronomers reported the development of a massive storm in the atmosphere of the gas giant Saturn, one of the largest planets in our solar system. The atmospheric structure has since grown to impressive size, reaching a diameter more than ten times that of Earth's.Last year, the beginning o... |
28 January 2011
03:25 GMT |
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A group of investigators has recently determined that it is possible to determine how hurricane seasons will look like years in advance, thus opening up a new avenue of research in predicting weather across seasons. This discovery is very important because it could potentially help save thousands of lives in areas th... |
8 November 2010
01:30 GMT |
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Weather experts warn of the looming threat that tropical storm Tomas is posing on the already-battered nation of Haiti. The atmospheric event may trigger massive landslides in areas that have already been destabilized geologically by the January 7.0-magnitude earthquake.According to current forecasts, it would appear... |
5 November 2010
10:57 GMT |
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This year, the Atlantic hurricane season has been pretty busy but what's rather strange is that these huge storms have avoided the United States landfall.Even though people who expected to see their house taken away by a hurricane are happy about it, the phenomenon is rather unusual.This year was the first time ... |
28 October 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announced that last week saw the end of one of their largest ever hurricane studies, entitled the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment.This investigations effort spanned more than two months of non-stop flights, that were carried out in an around the sto... |
8 October 2010
02:01 GMT |
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New satellite images have revealed that the 2010 hurricane season is for from over for America. Subtropical storm Otto has been lurking east of the Caribbean since yesterday, October 6.The subtropical depression that “haunted” the area for a few days finally decided to develop into a subtropical storm, an... |
7 October 2010
07:08 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, who are currently conducting a detailed investigation of what makes tropical storms tick, say that their work is made incredibly easy by an unmanned air drone.NASA is operating a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is generally used by the military for surveillance, ... |
25 September 2010
07:10 GMT |
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Numerous research flights took off over the past couple of days, all of them aimed at the recently-formed Hurricane Karl, which developed almost overnight from a tropical storm.As such, a record number of scientific flights were conducted into the intense storm, some of which were carried out using an unmanned aerial... |
17 September 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) announce that a new tropical storm has developed on the Western African coast on September 8. The atmospheric event has been named Igor. This is only the latest addition in a string of storms that have been developing all over the Atlantic Ocean at a brisk pace. With ... |
11 September 2010
07:06 GMT |
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As part of a study aimed at understanding hurricanes, three students at the Purdue University are continuing to fly over the Atlantic Ocean, collecting data on tropical storm Gaston. The formation is now yet fully structured, and this is precisely what makes it such an important target for study. Researchers say that... |
4 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Researchers reveal that hurricane Earl would cause extensive damage and victims in New York City, if it were to hit the city. They began worrying about such questions when weather services announced that the large tropical storm will move up the US East Coast before going further into the Atlantic and dissipating,. T... |
2 September 2010
09:57 GMT |
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If ocean waters turned from greenish to blue, that would seriously affect the path and the number of hurricanes, according to a research carried out by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.The team's leader, Anand Gn... |
14 August 2010
04:51 GMT |
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When tropical storms turn into hurricanes, people living around the Gulf of Mexico, and in neighboring US states, have good reason to be concerned. History has shown on countless occasions precisely how dangerous these atmospheric manifestations could be and that people would do good to get out of the way as fast as ... |
2 August 2010
04:41 GMT |
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With the current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a great deal of attention is now being given to preventing instances such as this from happening. But researchers say that disasters of this magnitude are not only possible, but very likely, especially during the hurricane season. In a new study, a team of investigato... |
14 June 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Officials at British Petroleum, the company in charge of operating the former Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drilling rig, announced that they were in the midst of devising a new plan to halt the oil leaks currently taking place in the Gulf of Mexico. The crude has been spewing into the waters for about six weeks... |
1 June 2010
04:08 GMT |
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In a new report released by Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), which is based at the Rice University, researchers are drawing attention on the possible impacts a category 5 hurricane could have on the cities of Houston and Galveston. According to the experts, both of the... |
27 May 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Scientists peering over old and recent images of the gas giant Neptune, the eight planet from the Sun, were recently amazed to discover an eerily familiar pattern in the way clouds at the planet's south pole were behaving. Their analysis revealed that the region was at the moment battered by what ... |
19 March 2010
11:57 GMT |
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Scientists have recently managed to develop a new model for predicting hurricanes, and the data does not look encouraging. Considering that the world is getting warmer, the amount of damage that the new storms could cause is larger than what has currently been witnessed. Meteorologists say that, over the next decades... |
22 February 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Global warming is believed to be a serious contributor to the frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic at this point, but pieces of evidence of this are not widely agreed upon. As a result, looking back into the planet's hurricane history could make it clear if the recent spike in the weath... |
22 October 2009
05:41 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) satellite, GOES-11, launched in 2000, has recently beamed back images detailing fizzling tropical cyclone formation in the eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports. The data collected from the eye-in-the-sky a... |
14 August 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Studying ancient rocks, excavated from miles under the Earth's surface, can take geologists to amazing discoveries about the history of our planet, and the way the climate shifted over the billions of years of our history. Therefore, it came as little surprise to investigators when they learned that periods of g... |
13 August 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The Indian Ocean, despite being one of the most important bodies of water in the world, is also the least studied of all oceans, and experts are currently looking at stamping that out. That is to say, over the next months, an intricate network of sensor buoys will be spread across its water, in a bid to determine the... |
6 May 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Scheduled to begin next week, the most ambitious weather experiment in the world will take place between May 10th and June 13th in the central parts of the United States, all over the Great Plains, on an area of about 900 square miles. It will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers from the Nationa... |
5 May 2009
10:24 GMT |
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The National Weather Service has decided to employ a more drastic approach to warning people about severe storms, hurricanes, or tornadoes that may hit the United States this year, by flashing ads on all networks and air frequencies and by using harsher words and overall language when describing the situation. Repres... |
11 March 2009
11:33 GMT |
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A new scientific study showed on Wednesday that global warming and climate change play a major part in triggering an increase in the frequency of arctic storms in the regions surrounding the North Pole, a phenomenon that may have severe repercussions on the way oil and natural gas exploitations in the area function, ... |
7 February 2009
07:27 GMT |
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