News tagged with atmosphere dynamics

The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time

In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Want to understand the fluid dynamics of the oceans and atmosphere? UCLA's got the video

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oceans and clouds, even the atmosphere itself, are in constant motion and can undergo dramatic fluctuations, like hurricanes, that lead to severe consequences. If you've ever ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Can scientists look at next year's climate?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make valid climate predictions that go beyond weeks, months, even a year? UCLA atmospheric scientists report they have now made long-term climate forecasts that are among ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Chemical imaging of individual salt particles advances aerosol research

Scientists recently combined experimental approaches and molecular dynamics modeling to gain new insights into the internal structure of sea salt particles and relate it to their fundamental chemical reactivity in the atmosphere. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists report changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate

The predictability and scale of seasonal changes in a habitat help determine the distance migratory species move and whether the animals always travel together to the same place or independently to different locations, according ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (29) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Agricultural methods of early civilizations may have altered global climate, study suggests

Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8

Study links swings in North Atlantic oscillation variability to climate warming

Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term behavior of one ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 32