World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains (w/Videos)

The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding ...

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NASA satellite movie shows Great Plains tornado outbreak from space

Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains tornado outbreak, ...

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created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes

Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.

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created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Global warming's influence on El Nino still unknown

(PhysOrg.com) -- The climate of the Pacific region will undergo significant changes as atmospheric temperatures rise but scientists can not yet identify the influence it will have on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation ...

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created May 24, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'A-maize-ing' discovery could lead to higher corn yields for food, feed and fuel

Scientists may have made an "a-maize-ing" discovery that could lead to higher corn yields in the United States. In a new research report published in the March 2010 issue of the journal Genetics, scientists used tropical maize ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Warmer planet temperatures could cause longer-lasting weather patterns

Whether it's never-ending heat waves or winter storms, atmospheric blocking can have a significant impact on local agriculture, business and the environment. Although these stagnant weather patterns are often ...

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created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (28) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winter affect severe weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Previously rare big city storms - like a tornado Aug. 19 that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and the powerful thunderstorms in New York City a day earlier - may ...

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Floods to become commonplace by 2080

Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Creating action-inspiring tornado warnings

One year ago this week, 158 people died when a tornado with winds greater than 200 mph struck Joplin, Mo. Even though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued tornado warnings and activated ...

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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees tornadic Texas storms in 3-D

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite provides a look at thunderstorms in three dimensions and shows scientists the heights of the thunderclouds and the rainfall rates coming from them, ...

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GOES satellite movie tracked tornadic Texas trouble

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters

(AP) -- Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

US sets new carbon standard for power plants

The United States said Tuesday it was setting the first national standards on carbon emissions from power plants, taking aim at the burning of coal which is considered a top culprit in climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

NASA sees more severe weather over eastern Texas, Oklahoma

A low pressure area is centered over eastern Oklahoma, and its associated cold front drapes south into eastern Texas. The front is stalled over eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma and is generating severe weather ...

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Infrared NASA satellite data indicates severe weather for south central US this week

Infrared and microwave satellite imagery from NASA have been providing forecasters at the National Weather Service valuable data on weather system that has potential to bring severe weather to the south central ...

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