News tagged with extreme waves

Climate change analysis predicts increased fatalities from heat waves

Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 33

UN: 2010 tied for warmest year on record

(AP) -- Last year tied with 1998 and 2005 for the warmest year on record, providing further evidence that the planet is slowly heating up, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 95

Scientists recreate extreme conditions deep in Earth's interior

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Temporal coherence: Future laser technology reaches new era

Even as the Linac Coherent Light Source delivers X-rays with unprecedented power, marking a new era of X-ray science, a team of SLAC researchers is working to make such X-ray lasers even better. In a paper ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wilder weather exerts a stronger influence on biodiversity than steadily changing conditions

An increase in the variability of local conditions could do more to harm biodiversity than slower shifts in climate, a new study has found.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Research pinpoints conditions favorable for freak waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by Assistant Professor of Geosciences Tim Janssen suggests ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New research sheds light on freak wave hot spots

Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by San Francisco State professor Tim Janssen suggests that changes in water depth and currents, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 6

Height of large waves changes according to month

A team of researchers from the University of Cantabria, Spain, has developed a statistical model that makes it possible to study the variability of extreme waves throughout the year, according to the journal Coastal Engineering. The st ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

Earthquake waves: How do they spread?

Propagation of earthquake waves within the Earth is not uniform. Experiments indicate that the velocity of shear waves (s-waves) in Earth’s lower mantle between 660 and 2900 km depth is strongly dependent on the orientation ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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