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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 -
Lessons of the 1953 East Coast of England Flood Disaster
January 29, 2013 — Sixty years ago, on 31 January and 1 February 1953, over 300 people died in flooding on the East Coast of England. Recent research has found that the Cabinet partly funded the response to avoid blame ... > full story -
Satellite Visualization Tool for High-Resolution Observation Review (Thor) Accessible from Any Location With Internet Access
January 29, 2013 — With minimal coding effort an Earth-observing satellite tool can be converted into a practical web-based application. In addition, a 3-D visualization technique has been ... > full story -
Climate Change Impacts to U.S. Coasts Threaten Public Health, Safety and Economy, Report Finds
January 28, 2013 — According to a new technical report, the effects of climate change will continue to threaten the health and vitality of US coastal communities' social, economic and natural ... > full story -
The Storm That Never Was: Why Meteorologists Are Often Wrong
January 24, 2013 — Have you ever woken up to a sunny forecast only to get soaked on your way to the office? On days like that it's easy to blame the weatherman. But engineering professor Julie Crockett doesn't get mad ... > full story
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