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New Research Can Improve Regional U.s. Snowfall Forecasts During El Niños And La Niñas Winters
June 5, 2001 — For the first time, researchers have identified how El Niños and La Niñas change snowfall in specific regions of the continental United States. These findings may lead to more accurate ... > full story -
NASA Demonstrates How Earth's Global Heat Engine Drives Plant Growth
April 12, 2001 — Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the first long-term global data set that demonstrates the connection between changing patterns of sea surface temperature and ... > full story -
First Chapter Of Earth's "Biological Record" Documented From Space
March 30, 2001 — NASA has collected the first continuous global observations of the biological engine that drives life on Earth. Researchers expect this new detailed record of the countless forms of plant life that ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Tracks Hazardous Smoke And Smog Partnership
March 16, 2001 — New research sponsored by NASA may soon help scientists do a better job of tracking pollution plumes around the world and help provide people more advance warning of unhealthy air. Researchers have ... > full story -
Predicting El Nino With The Help Of A Wind Trigger
February 7, 2001 — Just as a spark can grow into a fire, so small departures of winds from the normal seasonal cycle in the far western equatorial Pacific can trigger a full-blown El Nino. Writing in the February 15 ... > full story -
Ancient Coral Reef Record Gives History Of El Niño
January 29, 2001 — Using pieces of ancient coral reefs as windows on the history of climate, geologists have discovered that at no time in the past 130,000 years does the weather phenomenon known as El Niño ... > full story -
Rainfall Change May Give Earlier Signal Of El Niño
January 23, 2001 — A decrease in rainfall over the Indian Ocean may give the world the earliest signal that a strong El Niño is about to start, according to researchers studying a 21-year global record of ... > full story -
More El Niño's And La Niña's May Lead To More Global Rainfall Extremes
January 17, 2001 — Researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), studying changes in tropical precipitation patterns, have noted a higher frequency of El Niños and La Niñas ... > full story -
Historic Records Reveal Links Between El Nino, Coastal Erosion, And Shifting Sands Of Beaches In Central California
December 27, 2000 — Erosion of seacliffs, damage to coastal structures, and the comings and goings of beach sand along California's central coast are all closely linked to the intense winter storms associated with ... > full story -
New Satellite-Generated Rain Maps Provide Improved Look At Tropical Rainfall
December 19, 2000 — New detailed satellite-generated rain maps paint a more accurate picture of how much rain falls in the tropics. These new maps provide more accurate tropical rainfall measurements and may enable ... > full story
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