News tagged with climate anomalies

With climate and vegetation data, geographers closer to predicting droughts in Africa

What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa Barbara geographers Chris Funk, Greg ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MARSIS completes measurement campaign over Martian North Pole

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board Mars Express has recently completed a subsurface sounding campaign over the planet's North Pole. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers

Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niņo phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 31




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Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics

(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pre ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

ESA declares end of mission for Envisat satellite

Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's new 'Earth now' app: your world, unplugged

A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Discovery of pine beetles breeding twice in a year helps explain increasing damage, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long thought to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations per year, dramatically increasing the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Birds' diverse traits survive Amazon fires

Research in the Amazon has shown that wildfires are less of a threat to the functional diversity of rainforest birds than you might expect.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years

A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere. The study's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 61 | with audio podcast

A look back suggests a sobering future of wildfire dangers in US west

The American West has seen a recent increase in large wildfires due to droughts, the build-up of combustible fuel, or biomass, in forests, a spread of fire-prone species and increased tree mortality from insects and heat.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?

In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Seeking a pot of geological gold

Researchers are moving a step closer to solving one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time. It happened roughly 200 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons – and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch ...

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 20 | with audio podcast


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