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Software Reveals Critical Crop Growth Stages
May 12, 2011 — Agronomists have developed computer software that tells farmers when to spray pesticides. The software, called "PhenologyMMS (Modular Modeling System)," predicts the timing of plant growth stages so ... > full story -
Mississippi Flooding Captured by NASA Satellites
May 11, 2011 — The Mississippi River reached nearly 48 feet in Memphis, Tenn., on May 10, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It was the highest water level for Memphis since ... > full story -
Finding Reserves on the Electrical Grid
May 11, 2011 — The weather determines how much energy wind turbine systems provide. The same applies to power line capacity. On cold and stormy days, this capacity is higher than on days with no wind and high ... > full story -
New Strategy for Drought Tolerance in Crops: Shutting Down the Plant's Growth Inhibition Under Mild Stress
May 11, 2011 — Researchers have unveiled a mechanism that can be used to develop crop varieties resistant to mild droughts. It turns out that under non-lethal stress conditions, plants inhibit growth more than ... > full story -
Climate Change Analysis Predicts Increased Fatalities from Heat Waves
May 3, 2011 — Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. A new analysis has calculated that the city of ... > full story -
NASA Mission Seeks to Uncover a Rainfall Mystery
April 27, 2011 — Scientists are on a mission to unlock the mysteries of why certain clouds produce copious amounts of rain. In a field mission that is now under way, aircraft are carrying instruments above and into ... > full story -
Effect of Cloud-Scattered Sunlight on Earth's Energy Balance Depends on Wavelength of Light
April 24, 2011 — Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected ... > full story -
Ring Around the Hurricanes: Satellites Can Predict Storm Intensity
April 20, 2011 — Coastal residents may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a study demonstrating how to use existing satellites to monitor tropical storm ... > full story -
Clouds, Clouds, Burning Bright
April 19, 2011 — High up in the sky near the poles some 50 miles above the ground, silvery blue clouds sometimes appear, shining brightly in the night. These are noctilucent or "night shining" clouds. Since 2007, a ... > full story -
New Tools to Tackle a Solar Data Storm
April 18, 2011 — So great is the wealth of data about the Sun now being sent back by space missions such as SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) that scientists back on Earth can struggle to keep ... > full story
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