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New Monsoon Forecasting Method Could Increase Crop Yields
February 19, 2003 — A recently devised method for forecasting monsoon-season weather in Bangladesh could improve agricultural production in south Asia and equatorial Africa, according to a climate researcher at the ... > full story -
Ocean Surface Saltiness Influences El Niño Forecasts
January 30, 2003 — NASA sponsored scientists have discovered by knowing the salt content of the ocean's surface, they may be able to improve the ability to predict El Nino events. Scientists, studying the western ... > full story -
North Atlantic Oscillation Part Of The Global Picture
December 12, 2002 — An especially cold winter in Europe, lots of snow in Scandinavia or lots of rain in the Mediterranean are all symptoms of what meteorologists call the North Atlantic Oscillation, but a group of Penn ... > full story -
NASA Research Offers Explanation For Earth's Bulging Waistline
December 10, 2002 — A team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the Royal Observatory of Belgium has apparently solved a recently observed mystery regarding changes to the ... > full story -
New Evidence That El Niño Influences Global Climate Conditions On A 2,000-Year Cycle
November 14, 2002 — El Niño, the pattern that can wreak havoc on climate conditions around the world, is like a beacon, pulsating through time on a 2,000 year cycle, according to a new study by scientists from ... > full story -
Pacific Ocean Temperature Changes Point To Natural Climate Variability
November 13, 2002 — Analysis of long-term changes in Pacific Ocean temperatures may provide additional data with which to evaluate global warming ... > full story -
Transition From El Nino To La Nina Affected Vegetation
November 6, 2002 — NASA scientists using satellite data have shown that shifts in rainfall patterns from one of the strongest El Niño events of the century in 1997 to a La Niña event in 2000 significantly ... > full story -
Landcover Changes May Rival Greenhouse Gases As Cause Of Climate Change
October 2, 2002 — While many scientists and policy makers have focused only on how heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are altering our global climate, a new NASA-funded study points to the importance of also ... > full story -
Climate And Cholera: An Increasingly Important Link
September 3, 2002 — The link between climate and cholera, a serious health problem in many parts of the world, has become stronger in recent decades, say researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of ... > full story -
Scientists Zero In On Arctic, Hemisphere-Wide Climate Swings
August 30, 2002 — In the late 1990s, as scientists were reaching consensus that the Arctic had gone through 30 years of significant climate change, they began reading the first published papers about the Arctic ... > full story
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