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New Discoveries Enhance Climate Models With Underwater Ridges

New discoveries on how underwater ridges impact the ocean's circulation system will help improve climate projections.An underwater ridge can trap the flow of…

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NASA Aqua Captures Cyclone Yasi’s Landfall in Queensland

On Feb. 2 at 03:35 UTC/1:35 p.m. Australia local time, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured a…

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GOES-13 Satellite sees Groundhog's Day on ice

A massive winter storm touched 30 states over the last couple of days, including Phil's home at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. where rain mixed with sleet…

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NASA Satellites Track Intensifying Cyclone Yasi in Australia

Tropical cyclone Yasi became much more powerful and was upgraded to a dangerous category fpur tropical cyclone on the Saffir Simpson scale on February 1, 2011.A Cyclone Warning is now in effect for Queensland, Australia for coastal areas from Cape Melville to Sarina, extending inland to east of Croydon to Hughenden. A Cyclone Watch is in effect for coastal areas from Lockhart River to Cape Melville, and in the tropical interior north of Winton to Sarina….

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NASA Satellites Track Major Winter Storm Impacting 30 States

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have been providing visible, infrared and microwave looks at the storm system's clouds, precipitation, temperatures and…

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Study Reveals Predictive Models for Last Summer’s Pakistan Floods

Now, a new scientific study that retrospectively examines the raw data from these computer models, has confirmed that, if the information had been processed,…

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NASA Captures Stunning Image of Cyclone Yasi Approaching Queensland

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Cyclone Yasi on Jan. 30 at…

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Alabama Researchers Get Close View of Winter Storm

That turned out to be the case recently, however, as scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA's Earth Sciences Office used a network of…

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Surf's up: New research provides precise way to monitor ocean wave behavior, shore impacts

The approach, which uses two video cameras to feed data into an advanced computer system, can observe large areas of ocean waves in real time and help explain…

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Dinosaurs Survived 700,000 Years Post Mass Extinction Event

The U of A team, led by Larry Heaman from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, determined the femur bone of a hadrosaur as being only 64.8 million…

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Unlocking Climate Secrets from the Mariana Trench

For the first time scientists from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), the…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees TD10S strengthen into Tropical Storm Bianca

What began as a low pressure system designated as System 98S on January 24, brought rains near Kuri Bay, Australia. On January 25, System 98S strengthened into…

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NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Tropical Depression Anthony heading toward Australia

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image on Jan. 26 at 03:23 UTC of Tropical…

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Cyclone Wilma's eye catches attention of NASA satellites

On January 25 at 00:59 UTC (8:59 p.m. EST on Jan. 24), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured data that was used to create infrared and…

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NASA Sees Birth of 10th Tropical Depression Near Australia

When Aqua passed over the Tropical Storm 10S on January 25 at 05:53 UTC (12:53 a.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an…

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New Dinosaur Discovery Sheds Light on Prehistoric Era

Geologists from Argentina and the United States announced earlier this month the discovery of a new dinosaur that roamed what is now South America 230 million…

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