When modeling the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean-climate cycle, adding satellite sea surface salinity—or saltiness—data significantly improves model accuracy, according to a new NASA study.
Earth Sciences
Apr 7, 2020
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Scientists working on the next frontier of weather forecasting are hoping that weather conditions 3-to-4 weeks out will soon be as readily available as seven-day forecasts. Having this type of weather information—called ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2019
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We ask experts for advice all the time. A company might ask an economist for advice on how to motivate its employees. A government might ask what the effect of a policy reform will be.
Other
Oct 25, 2019
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Researchers have identified a weather event that caused an unusually extreme cold wave to hit Europe and Asia during the winter of 2018, which could help atmospheric scientists better predict similar events in the future, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2019
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A team of scientists reports that they accurately predicted the nation's extensive tornado outbreak of late May 2019 nearly four weeks before it began.
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2019
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An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests that as the planet continues to heat up due to the emission of greenhouse gases, it will become increasingly difficult to forecast El Niño events. In ...
New research mining data from a catalog of more than 1.8 million southern California earthquakes found that nearly three-fourths of the time, foreshocks signalled a quake's readiness to strike from days to weeks before the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2019
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Fresh water isn't unlimited. Rainfall isn't predictable. And plants aren't always thirsty.
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2019
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When a new, more aggressive strain of the pathogen that causes sudden oak death turned up in Oregon, scientists and stakeholders banded together to try to protect susceptible trees and the region's valuable timber industry.
Ecology
May 20, 2019
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In the future, weather forecasts that provide storm warnings and help us plan our daily lives could come up to five days sooner before reaching the limits of numerical weather prediction, scientists said.
Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2019
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