News tagged with temperature mapping

Statistical analysis projects future temperatures in North America

For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics - to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (21) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

Some corals like it hot: Heat stress may help coral reefs survive climate change

A team of international scientists working in the central Pacific have discovered that coral which has survived heat stress in the past is more likely to survive it in the future.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Horticulturist explains new USDA plant hardiness map

The recently released USDA Plant Zone Hardiness Map, updating the previous 26-year-old zone map, reflects rising mean temperatures throughout the country, including Maine, where gardeners must carefully consider possible ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An Intergalactic Weather Map

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Noninvasive and accurate: Absolute temperature mapping for biomedical applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Germany and the US have developed a new approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry using encaged hyperpolarized xenon as a temperature sensor. The method allows ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New NASA Image Shows Extent of Station Fire Burn

On September 6, 2009, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured this simulated natural color image of the Station fire, burning ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists to unlock Great Barrier Reef genome

Australian scientists on Thursday announced a ground-breaking genome-mapping project that could help the Great Barrier Reef fight off the twin threats of climate change and toxic farm chemicals.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Planck Satellite ready to measure the Big Bang

(PhysOrg.com) -- The last tests of the Ariane 5 rocket system have been finished and ESA's Planck satellite is sitting ready for launch at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Together with ESA's space telescope ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

New Ice Age maps point to climate change patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- New climate maps of the Earth’s surface during the height of the last Ice Age support predictions that northern Australia will become wetter and southern Australia drier due to climate change.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3