Tag Archives: Goddard Space Flight Center

Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – “worse than we thought”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Researchers Provide Detailed Picture of Ice Loss Following Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelves An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following … Continue reading →

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Dora almost explores Category 5 – in the Eastern Pacific

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Update:  4AM 7/22/2011:  Hurricane Dora nearly made it to Category 5 peaking at 135 knots maximum sustained winds.  Perhaps in the post-season reanalysis, the storm will be upgraded.  But, what’s more spectacular than it’s rapid intensification?  Dora has spectacularly weakened … Continue reading →

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SDO sees ‘Dark Fireworks’ on the Sun

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

From Science@ NASA:  On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only “M” (for medium) on the Richter scale of solar flares, the blast at first appeared … Continue reading →

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Tropical Storm Beatriz – the six hour “shorty”

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

50 years ago, we’d never have counted this as a tropical storm. As outlined recently in New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not climate change, its the technology that enables counting storms that would … Continue reading →

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Satellite Composite Shows Chilean Volcano Plume Spreading Globally

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it around the world. NASA has collected them in the NASA … Continue reading →

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Where the plants are – new global fluorescence map

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

First-of-its-kind fluorescence map offers a new view of the world’s land plants Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have produced groundbreaking global maps of land plant fluorescence, a difficult-to-detect reddish glow that leaves emit as a … Continue reading →

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If NASA science was this easy to hack, CRU must have been child’s play

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

We still have no final report from the Norfolk police on whether the ClimateGate files were a hack, or an inside job by a whistleblower. However, we do have another example emerging today that illustrates that it seems rather easy … Continue reading →

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Satellite based radar images April 28th tornado outbreak

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

From: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center TRMM Satellite sees massive thunderstorms in severe weather system The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite again flew over severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28 and … Continue reading →

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We had to nuke the planet to save it from global warming

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

Eric Nielsen writes to me via Facebook: I find it disturbing the National Geographic would suggest something like this Well, um, yeah. This sort of thing is why I don’t subscribe to National Geographic anymore. Could there ever be a … Continue reading →

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Thunderstorms proven to create antimatter

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Thunderstorms have been shown to create positrons and send them to space. As the late, great, Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show used to say, “That is some weird, wild, stuff“. NASA’s Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space Scientists … Continue reading →

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SORCE’s Solar Spectral Surprise – UV declined, TSI constant

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

From NASA’s website (h/t to David Archibald) By Adam Voiland NASA’s Earth Science News Team Two satellite instruments aboard NASA’s Solar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission — the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) … Continue reading →

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Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Northeast

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair, here’s an easy to do idea. – Anthony From Science … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Terra Satellite Images Minnesota’s Blizzard Aftermath

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

From Science @ NASA.gov The upper Midwest was hit by a powerful winter storm this past weekend as more than 17 inches of snow brought down the roof to the Metrodome football complex (link added by WUWT)  in Minneapolis. NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in records, snowfall, Weather | Tagged , , , , , | 68 Comments

Quick, somebody slap a carbon tax on this new planet

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet PASADENA, Calif. — Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first … Continue reading →

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NASA climate model shows plants slow Global Warming by creating a new negative feedback in response to increased CO2

Posted on December 7, 2010 by

  From NASA Earth Science news: A new NASA computer modeling effort has found that additional growth of plants and trees in a world with doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would create a new negative feedback – a cooling effect … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon dioxide, Climate News, Modeling | Tagged , , , , | 106 Comments

SOHO – 15 years today

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

Dr. Leif Svalgaard advises via email that today is the 15th anniversary of the SOHO(Solar and Heliospheric Observatory). Here’s a story to celebrate one of the most successful space missions ever, still going strong. – Anthony SOHO Celebrates 15 Years … Continue reading →

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