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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 -
NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth
February 28, 2013 NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of ... > full story -
Every Degree Fall in Winter Air Temperature Equals 1 Percent Drop in Ambulance Response Time
February 27, 2013 Every one degree fall in outside air temperature during the winter corresponds to a drop in ambulance response time of more than one percent, reveals new ... > full story -
A New Look at Urbanization's Environmental Impact
February 27, 2013 A research team from Sweden has developed a technique for quick, simple and cost-effective mapping of worldwide urban growth and its environmental ... > full story -
Restoration Planned for Shoreline Protecting NASA's Kennedy Space Center Infrastructure
February 25, 2013 Late last October, one of the most destructive storms ever to hit the United States bashed the beaches of Brevard County in Florida, including the shoreline of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Scientists ... > full story -
Weather Extremes Provoked by Trapping of Giant Waves in the Atmosphere
February 25, 2013 The world has suffered from severe regional weather extremes in recent years, such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011. Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical ... > full story -
Clues to Climate Cycles Dug from South Pole Snow Pit
February 25, 2013 Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a deep pile of Antarctic snow hold clear chemical traces of global meteorological events, climate scientists from France have found. Anomalies in oxygen ... > full story -
Macroweather Is What You Expect: Should There Be a Distinct Category Between Weather and Climate?
February 25, 2013 While short-term weather is notoriously volatile, climate is thought to represent a kind of average weather pattern over a long period. This dichotomy provides the analytical framework for scientific ... > full story -
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
February 21, 2013 The sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries ... > full story -
Conserving Corals by Understanding Their Genes
February 21, 2013 In reef-building corals variations within genes involved in immunity and response to stress correlate to water temperature and clarity, finds a new study. This information could be used to conserve ... > full story
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