Guest post by Dennis Ray Wingo Introduction The foundation of all observational science is data. This is true whether the data is temperature measurements from ground networks, satellites, or any…
Tag: Goddard Space Flight Center
PODEX Experiment to reshape future of Atmospheric Science by getting a handle on aerosols and clouds
Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX) in Southern California. The brightness, or “intensity,” and polarization of reflected light provide different information about the elements that make up a scene, apparent in this…
NASA on the sun: '…tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate."
Researchers have considered the possibility that the sun plays a role in global warming. From NASA GSFC: Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun…
Some new climate surprises blow in with the dust
From NASA: Dust’s Warming Counters Half of its Cooling Effect Dust that routinely rises above the world’s deserts causes a more significant localized warming effect than previously thought, a new…
Even NASA has gotten into the "Frankenstorm" meme
From NASA’s PR engine: NASA Sees Hurricane Sandy as the “Bride of Frankenstorm” Approaching U.S. East Coast NASA’s TRMM satellite revealed Hurricane Sandy’s heavy rainfall and the storm is expected…
Cool pictures from space of recent CME event auroras
Overnight on October 4-5, 2012, a mass of energetic particles from the atmosphere of the Sun were flung out into space, a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection. Three…
Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is 'right on time'
UPDATE: see this new article on the issue, “Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last…
Siberian smoke tracked to North America
I wonder how much of the EPA’s perceived air pollution problems in the USA actually originate elsewhere? From NASA: Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast Fires…
Global Hawk drones to be used to hunt hurricanes this year
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, it seems the days of the Orion P3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft may soon be numbered. NASA mission sending unmanned aircraft over hurricanes this year…
Lightning induced Schumann Resonance may help divine exoplanets
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science nugget: Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system’s origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce…
NASA on the snow and the mild winter – AGW not mentioned
Despite the wailings at various blogs and news outlets about this mild winter in the USA being the result of global warming, NASA says otherwise. Not a mention of AGW,…
Tornado outbreak tracking
By Rob Gutro NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A satellite animation of NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several…
NASA and multi-year Arctic ice and historical context
Over at NASA, they have a press release about old Arctic sea ice disappearing since 1980, including a helpful comparison widget that splits the before and after for comparison. I’ll…
2010 Snowmageddon explained, sans global warming/climate change
The 2010 Snowmageddon event was quickly seized upon in an NYT op-ed by global warming zealot Al Gore as yet more proof of…climate…warming…mumble.. something. Yet in this NASA article highlighting…
Hurricane Kenneth forms southwest of Baja
Late season Hurricane Kenneth forms in the eastern Pacific Click image above to animate the most current loop The hurricane season in the eastern Pacific isn’t over and Hurricane Kenneth…
Another satellite re-entry and burnup expected, this one may have been brought down by hackers
This is interesting. The ROSAT X-ray observatory is expected to burn up in about a week and it has quite a checkered and colorful history. According to Wikipedia, ROSAT was…
NOAA Hurricane Image: Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NOAA satellites Hurricane Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast Hurricane Irene is a major hurricane, and NOAA/NASA satellite data shows its diameter…
Imaging Hurricane Irene
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been busy measuring rainfall…
Antarctic Ice shelf collapse – "worse than we thought"
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…
Dora almost explores Category 5 – in the Eastern Pacific
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…
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