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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 -
Lake-Effect Snow Sometimes Needs Mountains
February 19, 2013 — Researchers ran computer simulations to show that the snow-producing “lake effect” isn’t always enough to cause heavy snowfall, but that mountains or other surrounding topography ... > full story -
NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-Ray Imager
February 7, 2013 — Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar ... > full story -
Smartphones, Tablets Help Researchers Improve Storm Forecasts
February 6, 2013 — Atmospheric scientists are using pressure readings from some new smartphones and tablet computers to improve short-term thunderstorm forecasts. A weather station in every pocket would offer an ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story -
Cyclone Did Not Cause 2012 Record Low for Arctic Sea Ice
January 31, 2013 — It came out of Siberia, swirling winds over an area that covered almost the entire Arctic basin in the normally calm late summer. It came to be known as "The Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012," and ... > full story -
Satellite Image Shows Eastern U.S. Severe Weather System
January 30, 2013 — A powerful cold front moving from the central United States to the East Coast is wiping out spring-like temperatures and replacing them with winter-time temperatures with powerful storms in between. ... > full story
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