Atmosphere News

Posted November 5, 2012:

• Massive Volcanic Eruption Puts Past Climate and People in Perspective

Posted November 1, 2012:

• NASA Maps How Nutrients Affect Plant Productivity
• NASA's SAMPEX Mission: A Space Weather Warrior

Posted October 31, 2012:

• Dust's Warming Counters Half of Its Cooling Effect

Posted October 24, 2012:

• 2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
• Earth's Magnetosphere Behaves Like a Sieve

Posted October 23, 2012:

• NASA Sees Active Region on the Sun Emit Another Flare

Posted October 22, 2012:

• Rapid Changes in the Earth's Core: The Magnetic Field and Gravity from a Satellite Perspective

Posted October 18, 2012:

• Ozone Affects Forest Watersheds

Posted October 15, 2012:

• Researcher Aims to Understand One of Nature's Strangest Secrets: Magnetotactic Bacteria

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Earth Sunblock Only Needed If Planet Warms Easily

Posted October 10, 2012:

• Suomi NPP Satellite Sees Auroras Over North America

Posted October 5, 2012:

• Weather-Making High-Pressure Systems Predicted to Intensify
• Climate Change: Aging of Organic Aerosols Is Caused by OH Radicals

Posted October 2, 2012:

• The Science Behind Those Eye-Popping Northern Lights

Posted October 1, 2012:

• Atmospheric Aerosol Climate Caution
• High-Arctic Heat Tops 1,800-Year High, Says Study; Modern Spike Outmatches Naturally Driven 'Medieval Warm Period'

Posted September 24, 2012:

• Large Bacterial Population Colonized Land 2.75 Billion Years Ago

Posted September 23, 2012:

• Stratosphere Targets Deep Sea to Shape Climate: North Atlantic 'Achilles Heel' Lets Upper Atmosphere Affect the Abyss

Posted September 19, 2012:

• Climate Scientists Put Predictions to the Test
• Carbon Dioxide from Water Pollution, as Well as Air Pollution, May Adversely Impact Oceans
• New Screening Method Identifies 1,200 Candidate Refrigerants to Combat Global Warming

Posted September 18, 2012:

• How Life Arose on Earth: Researchers Brew Up Organics on Ice

Posted September 17, 2012:

• MetOp-B Launches With NASA Goddard-Developed Instruments

Posted September 13, 2012:

• Sounds of Space: New 'Chorus' Recording by Radiation Belt Storm Probes' EMFISIS Instrument

Posted September 12, 2012:

• New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement

Posted September 11, 2012:

• NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars

Posted September 10, 2012:

• Starlight and 'Air Glow' Give Scientists a New Way to Observe Nighttime Weather from Space

Posted September 7, 2012:

• NASA's Global Hawk Mission Begins With Flight to Hurricane Leslie

Posted September 6, 2012:

• Westerly Storms Warm Norway

Posted September 5, 2012:

• Wetter Arctic Could Influence Climate Change, Study Finds

Posted September 4, 2012:

• NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun

Posted August 30, 2012:

• Shading Earth: Delivering Solar Geoengineering Materials to Combat Global Warming May Be Feasible and Affordable
• Heating by Black Carbon Aerosol: Soot Particles Absorb Significantly Less Sunlight Than Predicted by Models
• NASA Launches Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
• A Slow-Moving Isaac Brings Flooding to Gulf States

Posted August 29, 2012:

• ACE, Workhorse of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15

Posted August 28, 2012:

• Bright Arctic Clouds Formed by Exhaust from Final Space Shuttle Launch

Posted August 24, 2012:

• Wind Concentrates Pollutants With Unexpected Order in an Urban Environment

Posted August 23, 2012:

• Link Found Between Cold European Winters and Solar Activity
• Scientists Produce Hydrogen for Fuel Cells Using an Inexpensive Catalyst Under Real-World Conditions

Posted August 22, 2012:

• Half of the Particulate Pollution in North America Comes from Other Continents

Posted August 21, 2012:

• Twin Satellites Will Help Improve Space Weather Forecasts

Posted August 20, 2012:

• Radiation Belt Storm Probes: Fundamental Physics to Benefit Life on Earth, in Space
• Cloud Brightening to Control Global Warming? Geoengineers Propose an Experiment

Posted August 15, 2012:

• Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
• New Report Presents Research Program for Solar and Space Physics Over the Next Decade

Posted August 13, 2012:

• NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs on Record
• New System Could Predict Solar Flares, Give Advance Warning

Posted August 9, 2012:

• New Way to Track Formaldehyde

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