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NASA experiment stirs up hope for forecasting deadliest cyclones
About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the storms have caused nearly 80 percent...
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Read morePlanners Must Take Predicted Climate Change Into Account
Hamin recently completed a study with colleagues in Australia that was designed to help community leaders of 68 fast-growing, medium-sized coastal towns there figure out how to plan for the sometimes ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreA New Approach in Tsunami-Early Warning
As foreseen, the system was officially handed over to the BMKG (Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia) by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in the Indones...
Earth Sciences | Read moreIrish Weathery Bouy Network Upgrade Begins
Weather is THE fundamental force at sea. It can turn a sunny day into a swirling death trap in a matter of minutes, send a yacht peacefully on its way or sink it, and mean the difference between a ful...
Earth Sciences | Read moreForecasting rain - Radars for estimating rainfall rates
Today, mountain zones are only partially covered by this rain detection technology. Within the INTERREG project, a new generation of radars is being tested by Cemagref in the Var department, a mountai...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreStevens strengthens Dominican Republic's Early Warning System for Inundations
Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Maritime Systems began a project to strengthen the Early Warning System (EWS) for Inundations in the Dominican Republic. The project is focused on dev...
Information Technology | Read moreProtection of Humans and Environment: Research Project State-Funded with Three Million Euros
Fire departments have handheld devices which help to determine the concentrations of the different gases, but they can only be used close to the ground. And columns of smoke which ascent to a height a...
Awards Funding | Read moreSatellite View of Cloud Tops Might Warn of Storms
For three years, a new way to use data collected by NOAA weather satellites has been giving North Alabama short-term warnings of "pop-up" thunderstorms.Developed by scientists at The...
Earth Sciences | Read moreUniversity of Oklahoma takes part in upcoming feasibility study
Led by Regents Professor Ken Crawford, Director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, the study team consists of a diverse collection of meteorological experts from the National Weather Center. The t...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreCities incite thunderstorms
Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on computer models and detailed observations of an extreme thunders...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSpace-borne sensors help Africa tackle water shortage problems
As part of the IWAREMA (Integrated Water Resource management for Zambia) project, funded through ESA’s Data User Element, data from ESA’s multispectral MERIS sensor aboard Envisat was used to create m...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreNew tools to forecast hurricane rainfall inland
Now, researchers are learning how to predict where tropical storms and hurricanes will dump the most rain — even days after — and hundreds of miles away from — landfall.In a paper in the curre...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreIntelligent sensors gear up for real-time flood monitoring
The system, which makes use of grid computing, could reduce the cost of flood damage by providing warnings of local flooding in time for people to take pre-emptive action. Most current systems issue g...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreICSU hosts conference on hazards and disasters
The conference, which took place in conjunction with the official inauguration of ICSU’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, addressed how science could be used to prevent natural and human-ind...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreNew space observations poised to save lives from floods, landslides
Using NASA’s advanced Earth-observing satellites, scientists have discovered a new opportunity to build early detection systems that might protect thousands from floods and landslides...
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