MERIS/AATSR Workshop looks at twin sensors with many uses
...otential to better differentiate between pixels of cloud and cold ocean, which currently reduces SST covera...atmospheric products: AATSR returns information on cloud properties including aerosol size and optical thickness and depth while MERIS also returns informati...Air quality in West going south
... to air quality--temperature, solar radiation and cloud cover, and two that control the rate at which pol... in glaring contrast. The model predicts increased cloud cover, which will in turn deflect the sun's rays back toward space, offsetting warming in the air ne...AGU Fall Meeting - media advisory 4
...hop: CloudSat and CALIPSO, two satellites to study cloud cover Premiere: Film on the cryosphere, with discussion of issues presented 2. Field trip update The planned itinerary of our 4 December field trip, which is pegged to the upcoming centennial of the San Francisco earthquake, remains as stated in...Nutrient pollution causes a long-term effect on Chesapeake Bay ecosystem
...xcess nutrients can cause large algae blooms which cloud the water. When the algae bloom dies it sinks to the bottom and decays through bacterial processes that rapidly deplete dissolved oxygen. Significant increases in the organic content of 200 year-old sediment suggest stimulation of algae blooms durin...New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions
...ans, reptiles, and conifers are monkey-faced bats, cloud rats, golden moles, poison frogs, exotic parrots and hummingbirds, a hamster and a dormouse, a penguin, crocodiles, iguanas, monkeys, and a rhinoceros. Among the most intriguingly-named are: the Bloody Bay poison frog, the volcano rabbit, the Ruo Riv...ASU geologists suggest Mars features are result of meteorite strikes, not of evaporated lakes
...around the base you get a turbulent ground-hugging cloud of debris that goes out and makes a sedimentary deposit. You get deposits that can go up to almost 100 kilometers from big volcanoes. A big [meteorite] impact can provide deposits over tens of thousands of square kilometers. "Mars is cratered from o...Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions
...t NatureServe who took part in the study. "If this cloud has any silver lining, that's it." The new theory ...d in the 1980s and 1990s. In the famed Costa Rican cloud forests, for example, the Monteverde harlequin frog disappeared in the late 1980s, as did the golden...Global warming drives epidemic disease wiping out amphibian populations
...emely sensitive to climate change, such as dry and cloud forest environments," says Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azof... frequency at Monteverde by raising the heights of cloud formation which may promote the survival, growth and reproduction of the fungi. After analyzing the......ual suspect, at least to a climatologist, would be cloud cover. But in the most comprehensive study to date...ue of Geophysical Research Letters, has found that cloud cover has been decreasing for the past 50 years. Eliminating clouds from the dimming equation now le...NJIT solar physicists report paradox: Less sunlight, but temps rise
...ly paradoxical result is due to an increase in the cloud cover coupled with a peculiar re-arrangement of th...stration funded the research. "Recently analyzed cloud data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) confirm the trend in reflect...Declining snowpack cools off CO2 emissions from winter soils, says U. of Colorado study
...iew this as a small amount of good news in a large cloud of bad news," said Monson, chief author of a paper appearing in the Feb. 9 issue of Nature. "While winter CO2 emissions from forest soils have slowed, the lack of winter moisture is stressing the trees during the spring and summer and inhibiting the...Astronomer announces shortlist of stellar candidates for habitable worlds
...." Stars and planets form out of the same parental cloud of dust and gas. If the star doesn't have enough iron in its atmosphere, it is likely the parent material did not contain enough heavy metals for planets to form. Turnbull's candidate stars had to have at least 50 per cent of the iron content of the...New test of snow's thickness may 'bear' results key to polar climate studies, wildlife habitat
...pth, including precipitation, oceanic water vapor, cloud water, near-surface wind speed, sea surface temperature, soil moisture, and sea ice. This year's Arctic experiment will be the second Alaskan Arctic field campaign to confirm measurements made by AMSR-E. "Over the last several decades, we've observ...From climate dynamics to educational research...
...h. Many processes in atmospheric research, such as cloud formation and photochemical processes, are still not thoroughly understood. This is primarily because the relevant mechanisms take place on scales of time and space that cannot be measured simultaneously. Due to the combination of its great range (8,...Biodesign Institute participates in first-of-its-kind 'coyote' disaster preparedness drill
... the Salt River; a "dirty bomb" radiation/chemical cloud moving over the city; 10,000 plus casualties and a State of Emergency declared. During one scenario, an explosive and bioterror threat was discovered within the sprawling, General Dynamics site. All GD employees were evacuated and Scottsdale police...Pollutant haze heats the Arctic
...ears of measurements from the two sites to measure cloud "emissivity" how much clouds act like a blanket ... was true is that the pollution particles made the cloud droplets more numerous, but consequently smaller. Even if the amount of water is the same in the clo...Study outlines eruption at undersea volcano
...ll to the seafloor apparently killed by the toxic cloud above the volcano. The study outlined in the Nature article was part of the 2004 Submarine Ring of Fire program, supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and ...New research reveals unexpected post-mating gene expression in model lab insect
That cloud of tiny flies hovering around spoiled fruit isn't just a nuisance. In fact, what science calls Drosophila melanogaster is more and more the key to intricate genetic studies that shed light on numerous biological processes, especially reproduction. ...Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
...s often fall at lower elevations. "If you have a cloud coming in and dropping out water, as it climbs the mountain its preference is to first drop the heavy water that's rich in deuterium," Chamberlain said. "As you go up in elevation, the raindrops become lighter and lighter. Therefore, the rainwater be...... gravity takes over, causing them to fall from the cloud in the form of rain. One of the controversies su...his alter the whole water cycle, but the increased cloud cover reflects more of the sun's radiation back into space, creating a local cooling effect on Earth...