News tagged with atmospheric circulation patterns

What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn's moon Titan?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why does Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Cassini sees seasonal methane rains transform Titan's surface (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New look at gravity data sheds light on ocean, climate

A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of ...

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3




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Black carbon, tropospheric ozone most likely driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further polew ...

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created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Measuring CO2 to fight global warming: Scientists develop way to enforce future greenhouse gas treaty

If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The Sun's crowning glory

(Phys.org) -- Those who experience a total solar eclipse are overwhelmed as they look at the circle of light that surrounds our Sun. Laypeople may find it enchanting, but researchers have been racking their ...

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created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First forecast calls for mild Amazon fire season in 2012

Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Climatic effects of a solar minimum

An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences ...

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created May 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 92 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide caused global warming at Ice Age's end, pioneering simulation shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate science has an equivalent to the "what came first—the chicken or the egg?" question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by researchers ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6

A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why Europe's climate faces a stormy future

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe is likely to be hit by more violent winter storms in the future. Now a new study into the effects of climate change has found out why.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

'Gravity is climate' - 10 years of climate research satellites GRACE

For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5


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