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NASA and JAXA's GPM Mission Takes Rain Measurements Global
April 15, 2013 As anyone who has ever been caught in a sudden and unexpected downpour knows, gaps still exist in our knowledge about the behavior and movement of precipitation, clouds and storms. An upcoming ... > full story -
Dark Lightning: Are Airplane Passengers Exposed to Radiation from Intense Bursts of Gamma-Rays from Thunderclouds?
April 10, 2013 Scientists have known for almost a decade that thunderstorms are capable of generating brief but powerful bursts of gamma-rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs. Because they can ... > full story -
Snowflakes Falling on Cameras: What Snow Looks Like in Midair
April 10, 2013 University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don’t look much like those ... > full story -
Ten Times More Hurricane Surges in Future, New Research Predicts
March 18, 2013 How much worse will the frequency of extreme storm surges get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, ... > full story -
When It Rains These Days, Does It Pour? Has the Weather Become Stormier as the Climate Warms?
March 17, 2013 Scientists have shown that the signature of an increase in storminess could be extracted from precipitation data for the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The scientists suspect the same ... > full story -
Changes in Heart Attack Timing Continue Years After Hurricane Katrina
March 7, 2013 The upheaval caused by Hurricane Katrina seems to have disrupted the usual timing of heart attacks, shifting peak frequency from weekday mornings to weekend nights, in a change in pattern that ... > full story -
More Storms Like Sandy? Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy Violence
March 5, 2013 Researchers have shown that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice – attributed to greenhouse warming – appears to increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one ... > full story -
Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California
March 1, 2013 A new study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in the Sierra ... > full story -
Living Through a Tornado Does Not Shake Optimism
March 1, 2013 Even in the face of a disaster, we remain optimistic about our chances of injury compared to others, according to a new study. Residents of a town struck by a tornado thought their risk of injury ... > full story -
NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings
February 28, 2013 A new satellite that will detect the lightning inside storm clouds may lead to valuable improvements in tornado detection. The GOES-R satellite is currently being built with new technology that may ... > full story
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