 Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans July 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface ... | |
Viruses are hidden drivers of ocean's nutrient cycle 10 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Scientists on Wednesday said they had discovered deep-sea viruses to be an unexpectedly potent driver of the so-called carbon cycle that sustains oceanic life and helps dampen global warming. | |
 Study Improves Ability to Predict Aerosols' Effect on Cloud Cover August 14, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a novel theoretical approach, researchers from NASA and other institutions have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles from ... | |
 Killer storm Fay powers into hurricane mode for Florida landfall (Update) August 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Florida battened down Monday as Tropical Storm Fay packed on more power on its way to becoming a full-blown hurricane, after claiming as many as 40 lives in the Caribbean. | |
Patagonian glacier yields clues for improved understanding of global climate change August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Although ice cores obtained from Antarctica have now provided more than 800 000 years’ worth of climate records, analysis of them alone is insufficient for understanding the history of climatic interactions between the diverse ... | |
 RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea August 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Bremerhaven, August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest Passage for the ... | |
 Southern Ocean seals dive deep for climate data August 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Elephant seals are helping scientists overcome a critical blind-spot in their ability to detect change in Southern Ocean circulation and sea ice production and its influence on global climate. | |
Timing is everything: How vulnerable to flooding is New York City? July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by scientists at Stony Brook University ... | |
 Fay Comes Ashore in Florida August 19, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's CloudSat and Aqua satellites are just two of NASA's fleet keeping eyes on Tropical Storm Fay. NASA is using these data to see cloud height and cloud temperatures which give hints at ... | |
Numerical simulations of nutrient transport changes in Honghu Lake Basin August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Nutrients transported from catchments are one of the most important sources for lake eutrophication. The Honghu Lake Basin, located at the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, was chosen as the study area, the numerical simulations ... | |
Strong quake rattles New Zealand, minor damage reported August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked the east coast of New Zealand's North Island late Monday, scientists said. | |
 Research supports suggestions that global warming will do little to change hurricane activity August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science ... | |
Fay leaves behind lots of water for Fla. lake 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Tropical Storm Fay brought some good news to the state's parched Everglades and its liquid heart, Lake Okeechobee - lots and lots of water. | |
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