News by Subject Atmospheric Science

Tropical Cyclone Alcide continued to linger just northeast of the Island nation of Madagascar in the Southern Indian Ocean when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured an image of the storm.

A study by scientist Dirk Scherler of the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and two colleagues from Switzerland shows a possibility to detect the extent of debris on mountain glaciers globally and automatically via satellite monitoring. The scientists used the cloud computing platform Google Earth Engine for their study.

Scientists from the CNR (National Research Council) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice have carried out the first scientific research on the ripple effects linking atmospheric emissions, sea acidification, and coastal erosion. The Mediterranean case study: a possible 31 percent decrease in sediment by 2100. The results have been published inClimatic Change

Holocene temperature in the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed with chironomid subfossils

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and analyzed the rainfall occurring in pre-season Tropical Cyclone Alcide.

NASA's Terra satellite provided a visible image of a more organized Tropical Cyclone Alcide in the Southern Indian Ocean after it reached hurricane-force.

A new study reveals process of an extreme spring cold spell, which happens over North China. Continuous negative temperature anomalies can have disastrous effects on the wheat yield, inducing yield losses of up to 20% or more.