Earth Sciences

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Tropical Depression Keuna's rainfall weakens

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM measures how much rain can fall per hour in storms. Between June 6 and 7, TRMM noticed the…

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NASA Provides Satellite Views of Maryland's Severe Weather Outbreak

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite provided both a visible and an infrared look at the severe weather…

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Geoengineering’s Impact on Rainfall Patterns Explored

The researchers studied how models of the Earth in a warm, CO2-rich world respond to an artificial reduction in the amount of sunlight reaching the planet’s…

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NASA Satellites Track Weakening Typhoon Mawar Changes

Typhoon Mawar was weakening when the TRMM satellite saw it during the daytime on June 5, 2012 at 0728 UTC (3:28 a.m. EDT/U.S.). Rainfall derived from TRMM's…

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NASA Tracks Typhoon Mawar’s Path to the Sea

On June 1, Mawar (known as Ambo in the Philippines) had maximum sustained winds near 45 knots and it was about 245 miles east-northeast of Manila, Philippines….

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NASA infrared satellite imagery shows Tropical Storm Mawar strengthening

By June 1, 2012 at 1500 UTC (10 a.m. EDT), System 95W organized into Tropical Storm Mawar. It had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots (40 mph/65 kph) at that…

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NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft to Investigate Hurricanes This Year

Several NASA centers are joining federal and university partners in the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission targeted to investigate the…

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Catching solar particles infiltrating Earth's atmosphere

An M-class flare is considered a “moderate” flare, at least ten times less powerful than the largest X-class flares, but the particles sent out on May 17 were…

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Geoengineering’s Impact: Could We See a Whiter Sky?

But scientists theorize that this solar geoengineering could have a side effect of whitening the sky during the day. New research indicates that blocking 2…

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Landslides and Plate Tectonics Shape Steep Mountain Terrain

The work, presented online May 27 in Nature Geoscience, shows that once the angle of a slope exceeds 30 degrees – whether from uplift, a rushing stream carving…

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New Insights on San Andreas Fault Activity in Santa Cruz

San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains – large quakes more frequent than previously thoughtRecent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing…

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NASA Satellites Track Tropical Storm Beryl Off Carolina Coast

Tropical Storm Beryl formed off the Carolina coast on Friday, May 25 as “System 94L” and later that day became the second tropical storm of the Atlantic…

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Typhoon Sanvu Peaks: NASA’s Infrared Capture Insights

NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Sanvu on May 25 at 1559 UTC (11:59 a.m. EDT) when Sanvu was around its peak. The image clearly…

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Historic Photos Reveal Greenland Ice Loss Insights

Researchers at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark – that country's federal agency responsible for surveys and mapping – had been storing the glass…

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Greenland's current loss of ice mass

The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm…

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Research Vessel METEOR Explores Baltic Sea for New Insights

The two-month crossing of the Baltic Sea will include three calls at the Hanseatic city of Rostock. The study carried out by the IOW's scientists will focus on…

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