Earth - Weather Topics
How Dry is the Tropical Free Troposphere?
1997 — April 6, 2011
Spooky Hurricane Science
2008 — April 6, 2011
To improve hurricane forecasting, NASA engineers are spending time in a spooky room where 'no one can hear you scream.'
NASA Works to Improve Short-term Weather Forecasts
2008 — April 6, 2011
NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting.
Electric Ice
2006 — Sept. 20, 2011
Imagine looking inside a million clouds. That's what NASA researchers have done using the TRMM satellite to explore the strange connection between Lightningand ice.
Electric Hurricanes
2006 — April 6, 2011
Three of the most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning.
After Three Strikes, Is La Nina Out?
2001 — April 6, 2011
La Nina-like conditions that have persisted in the Pacific Ocean for three years might finally subside this Fall.
Giant Atmospheric Waves Sighted Over Iowa
2007 — April 6, 2011
Last week, cameras in Iowa captured a giant atmospheric wave passing over Des Moines--see the movie in today's story. Atmospheric scientists believe these waves, called undular bores, may be more common and important than previously thought.
Noxious Lightning
2007 — April 6, 2011
Lightningis more than just heat and light: it's a chemical factory that produces a natural pollutant called "NOx" that can affect both local air quality and global climate. NASA scientists are developing new ways to monitor LightningNOx from Earth orbit.
Modeling Climate at Warp Speed
2002 — April 6, 2011
Two new NASA technologies have squeezed 10 times more power out of some supercomputers. Climate scientists are putting the extra number-crunching muscle to good use.
Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
2010 — April 6, 2011
There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate.