Atmosphere News

Posted January 21, 1999:

• Solid Waste Incineration May Exceed Leaded Gasoline As Source Of Lead Air Pollution In Cities
• Weather On Tiny Pacific Island May Hold Clues To Global Climate Change

Posted January 18, 1999:

• 20-Year Global Temperature Record Shows Warming And Cooling Trends

Posted January 13, 1999:

• Extended Arctic Ozone Depletion In 1997 Related To Prolonged Polar Vortex
• Colorado State Leads $145 Million Spacecraft Project To Provide 3-D Images Of Clouds, Aerosols And Improve Weather, Climate Forecasting

Posted January 11, 1999:

• El Nino Impacts: Weaker In The Past, Stronger In The Future?

Posted January 6, 1999:

• University Of Iowa's Louis Frank Uses Mathematical Data Analysis To Show Small Comets Are Real
• Los Alamos Payload Rides Team RE/MAX Global Balloon Flight

Posted December 22, 1998:

• Space Weather Satellite Makes First Measurements of Solar Storm Smacking Earth's Atmosphere

Posted December 14, 1998:

• New NCAR Climate System Model Shows Earth's Surface Temperature To Rise 0.2 K Per Decade

Posted December 9, 1998:

• Radiation Belts Around Earth Adversely Affecting Satellites

Posted December 2, 1998:

• Ozone Above Indian Ocean Linked To African Lightning
• Prospecting For Helium-3 On The Moon

Posted November 24, 1998:

• Students Join Scientists At The South Pole Via The Web
• NASA Aircraft Sets New World Altitude Record

Posted November 19, 1998:

• U.S. Energy Department Opens Climate Research Facility In Tropics
• New Analysis of Global Temperature: Year-to-Year Correlations Reveal Human Fingerprint

Posted November 17, 1998:

• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted November 16, 1998:

• The Meteors Are Coming -- NASA Astrobiology To Shower Attention On Leonids

Posted November 12, 1998:

• ACE Spacecraft Braces For Fierce Meteor Storm

Posted November 9, 1998:

• Research Aircraft Fly Below Once-In-A-Century Leonid Meteor Storm

Posted November 4, 1998:

• Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere

Posted October 28, 1998:

• Space Shuttle Flies Solar Instrument Developed At NCAR

Posted October 23, 1998:

• El Niño And Climate More Predictable Than Previously Thought

Posted October 20, 1998:

• North America Absorbing Carbon Dioxide At Surprisingly High Rate, Team Reports
• Sunspot Cycle Closely Following Prediction -- Maximum Expected In The Year 2000

Posted October 8, 1998:

• 1998-99 Antarctic Research Season Highlights -- From Sea Floor Sediments To The Origins Of The Universe

Posted October 7, 1998:

• Antarctic Ozone Depletion Sets New Size Record

Posted September 28, 1998:

• Solar Flare Causes Intense Space Storm

Posted September 17, 1998:

• 2001 Space Mission: Into The Heart Of The Van Allen Belts

Posted September 10, 1998:

• 'Snowball Comets' Are Just Camera Noise, Berkeley Researchers Say After Analyzing Dark Pixels In Iowa Data

Posted September 2, 1998:

• Discovery Of New Ozone-Destroying Chemical

Posted August 28, 1998:

• USGS Reports Geomagnetic Storm In Progress

Posted August 26, 1998:

• Children Inhale Higher Percentage Of Pollution, New Research Shows

Posted August 24, 1998:

• NCAR Scientists And Instruments To Fly Over Raging Wildfires

Posted August 18, 1998:

• High-Altitude Hurricane Study Could Save Lives And Money

Posted July 29, 1998:

• Boulder Scientists Involved In Effort To Study Arctic Warming

Posted July 28, 1998:

• Breakthrough Systems To Detect Nuclear Explosions Worldwide

Posted July 20, 1998:

• NASA Satellite Sheds New Light On The La Niña Phenomenon

Posted July 15, 1998:

• Minuscule Ocean Plants Help Stabilize Earth's Atmosphere, Climate

Posted June 23, 1998:

• Radar System Aboard NASA DC-8 Aims To Unveil The Mysteries Of Cloud Structures

Posted May 26, 1998:

• NCAR To Host The World's First La Nina Summit

Posted April 23, 1998:

• Scientists Find Further Global Warming Evidence In Temperature Reconstruction Study

Posted April 14, 1998:

• First Test Flights Are A Hit: Onboard Sensor Reveals Invisible Turbulence Ahead of Aircraft in Time to Issue Warnings

Posted April 9, 1998:

• Arctic Ozone Hole, Responding To Greenhouse Gases, Will Worsen Through 2020, Columbia Team Finds

Posted April 6, 1998:

• Smog Spreading To South Pacific

Posted April 2, 1998:

• Fridge Gas: It's Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire

Posted February 12, 1998:

• New Analysis Shows Earth's Lower Stratosphere In Synch With Solar Cycle

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