News tagged with rainfall
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2,300-year climate record suggests severe tropical droughts as northern temperatures rise
A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet's densely populated tropical ...
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May 11, 2011 |
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TRMM maps a wet spring, 2011 for the Central U.S.
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been keeping track of the drenching rainfall that has been occurring in the central U.S. this springtime, and a newly created rain ...
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May 10, 2011 |
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TRMM Satellite sees massive thunderstorms in severe weather system
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite again flew over severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the eastern United States on April 28 and detected massive thunderstorms and ...
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Apr 28, 2011 |
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Hidden water holds the key to a changing desert
Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' flight from Egypt, ended Tuesday night. Yet after the exodus, they wandered the desert for 40 more years. There, Moses struck a rock with his staff and made water ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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New study links ozone hole to climate change all the way to the equator
In a study to be published in the April 21st issue of Science magazine, researchers at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science report their findings that the ozone hole, which is located over the So ...
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Apr 21, 2011 |
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Monitoring system warns of slippery slopes
Doren in the Austrian Bregenzerwald, February 2007: a slope 650 meters long breaks, resulting in a massive slide into the valley below. The nearest residential buildings are very close to the 70-meter-high ...
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Apr 07, 2011 |
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Number of days of rain in Iberian Peninsula has increased since 1903
A research team, led by the University of Extremadura, has for the first time analysed the frequency of rainfall over the whole of the Iberian Peninsula from 1903 to 2003. The results show that the number ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Birds must choose between mating, migrating, study finds
Sex or nice weather. That's the agonizing choice some birds face, according to a new University of Guelph study.
Apr 06, 2011 |
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NASA's TRMM satellite sees deadly rainfall over Thailand
Data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite was used to create a rainfall map of the severe rains that fell in Thailand recently. More than 20 people have been killed in southern ...
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Mar 31, 2011 |
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Satellites show effect of 2010 drought on Amazon forests
A new study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of Amazon forests caused by the last year's record-breaking drought.
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Mar 29, 2011 |
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NASA satellites show towering thunderstorms in rare sub-tropical storm Arani
NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites are providing data to scientists about the Southern Atlantic Ocean Sub-tropical Storm Arani, a rare occurrence in the southern ocean. Rainfall data and cloud top temperatures ...
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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TRMM maps flooding along US East Coast from massive storm
The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from space. Those ...
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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Satellites keeping busy with this week's severe weather
Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a huge and ...
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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NASA sees heavy rains in Tropical Storm Bingiza, possibly headed for second landfall
NASA satellite data indicates that Bingiza is still maintaining tropical storm intensity and carrying heavy rainfall over the Mozambique Channel as it prepares for its second landfall in Madagascar.
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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Scientists find new way to estimate global rainfall and track ocean pollution
A study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science suggests a new way to estimate how much of the ocean's pollution is falling from the sky. The new findings ...
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Feb 15, 2011 |
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