Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

How Ocean Currents Affect Global Climate Becoming Better Understood

Florida State University oceanographer Kevin Speer has a “new paradigm” for describing how the world’s oceans circulate — and with it he may help reshape…

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NASA Watching Issac's Approach to U.S. Gulf Coast

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac on Aug. 27 at…

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Scientist Sees Arctic Ice Loss Firsthand

A University of Delaware marine scientist can confirm some of that ice loss firsthand. In a short video he filmed, Andreas Muenchow, aboard the Canadian…

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Cold Winters and Solar Activity: New Research Insights

Scientists have long suspected that the Sun's 11-year cycle influences climate of certain regions on Earth. Yet records of average, seasonal temperatures do…

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Antarctic Ice Sheet Quakes Reveal Insights on Ice Movement

“No one has ever seen anything with such regularity,” said Lucas K. Zoet, recent Penn State Ph. D. recipient, now a postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State…

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NASA Observes Newborn Tropical Storm Joyce in Atlantic

When NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured an image of Tropical Depression 10 (TD10) on Aug. 23 at 7:45 a.m. EDT it appeared to have a well-rounded circulation….

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Cold European Winters Linked to Solar Activity Insights

Yet records of average, seasonal temperatures do not date back far enough to confirm any patterns. Now, armed with a unique proxy, an international team of…

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Tropical Climate Change Insights From Ocean Circulation Studies

Geological oceanographer Matthew Schmidt and two of his graduate students teamed up with Ping Chang, a physical oceanographer and climate modeler, to help…

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NASA Satellites Track Intensifying Pacific Tropical Cyclones

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument flies onboard NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites and the MODIS instrument on each captured a…

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Ancient Maya Collapse: Climate Change and Key Factors Explored

In their revised model of the collapse of the ancient Maya, social scientists B.L. “Billie” Turner and Jeremy “Jerry” A. Sabloff provide an up-to-date,…

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NASA Tracks Active Tropical Atlantic with GOES-13 Insights

In addition, NASA's GOES Project has been producing imagery of all systems using NOAA's GOES-13 satellite to see post-Tropical Storm Gordon, Tropical…

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Experiment Would Test Cloud Geoengineering as Way to Slow Warming

University of Washington atmospheric physicist Rob Wood describes a possible way to run an experiment to test the concept on a small scale in a comprehensive…

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Desertification Insights: Pollen Analysis Reveals New Findings

This is what researchers from the University of Bonn and their Israeli colleagues found when analyzing pollen in sediments and fluctuations in sea levels,…

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NASA Monitors Tropical Storm Bolaven’s Development

NASA's Aqua satellite has been monitoring the birth and progress of Tropical Storm Bolaven in the western North Pacific from Aug 19-20, 2012. The Atmospheric…

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NASA satellites capture 3 days of Hurricane Gordon's Atlantic track

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, is an instrument that flies onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites and provides high-resolution…

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Caribbean Islands’ Arc: Unveiling Earth’s Hidden Forces

The Caribbean islands have been pushed east over the last 50 million years, driven by the movement of the Earth's viscous mantle against the more rooted South…

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