News by Subject Atmospheric Science

Public Release: 18-Mar-2019

NASA sees Savannah lose its tropical eye

Tropical Cyclone Savannah weakened and "lost" its eye as high clouds filtered over it. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured a visible image of the tropical storm that revealed high clouds had moved over its eye.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 18-Mar-2019

NASA finds heavy rainfall potential in new Tropical Cyclone Trevor

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropical Cyclone Trevor formed in the Coral Sea of the Southwestern Pacific Ocean on March 18. NASA's Terra satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures in the storm which gave an indication of the storm's strength. Trevor has already triggered warnings in Queensland, Australia.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 18-Mar-2019

Uncertain projections help to reveal the truth about future climate change

University of Exeter

A team of four scientists from the US and the UK explain how differing climate model projections can be used collectively to reduce uncertainties in future climate change, in a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, European Research Council, European Union, NERC CEH National Capability Fund, and others

Public Release: 18-Mar-2019

NASA-NOAA Satellite catches last burst of energy in Tropical Depression 03W

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropical Depression 03W has dissipated in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, but not without one last show of strength on infrared satellite imagery.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 18-Mar-2019

Climate change negatively affects waterbirds in the American West

Oregon State University

New research shows that recent climate change is having profound effects on wetlands across the American West - affecting birds that use these wetlands for breeding, migration and wintering.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Public Release: 15-Mar-2019

NASA sees development of Tropical Depression 03W near Yap

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite revealed 03W that formed near the island of Yap in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 15-Mar-2019

Satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Savannah moving away from Indonesia

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropical Cyclone Savannah continued to move in southerly direction in the Southern Indian Ocean, and move away from Indonesia. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of the storm. Savannah is no threat to land areas.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 15-Mar-2019

NASA tracks Tropical Cyclone Idai over Mozambique

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed Tropical Cyclone continued to move in a westerly direction after making landfall in Mozambique.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 14-Mar-2019

Sources and sinks

University of California - Santa Barbara

For the entire history of our species, humans have lived on a planet capped by a chunk of ice at each pole. But Earth has been ice-free for about 75 percent of the time since complex life first appeared. This variation in background climate, between partly glaciated and ice-free, has puzzled geologists for decades.

Journal: Science

Public Release: 14-Mar-2019

Using Thoreau, scientists measure the impact of climate change on wildflowers

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

A new study is using observations made by Henry David Thoreau -- 19th-century American naturalist, social reformer, and philosopher -- to explore the effects of climate change on tree leaf-out and, as a result, the emergence of spring wildflowers.

Journal: Ecology Letters

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