Hurricanes & Typhoons

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Dynamic NASA-Built Weather Sensors Enlisted to Track Tropical Cyclones

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Known as COWVR and TEMPEST, the duo is demonstrating that smaller, less expensive science instruments can play an important role…

Article1 year ago

Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger? We Asked a NASA Scientist

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Are hurricanes getting stronger? Although we’ll never see a Category 6 hurricane, data does show that more hurricanes are becoming…

Article2 years ago

Effects

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Takeaways Earth Will Continue to Warm and the Effects Will Be Profound Global climate change is not a future problem.…

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NASA to Launch 6 Small Satellites to Monitor, Study Tropical Cyclones

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NASA is launching the first two of six small satellites no earlier than June 12 that will study the formation…

Article2 years ago

A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate

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We've broken down everything you need to know about hurricanes, how scientists are using global climate models to predict storm…

Article2 years ago
NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of a storm off the coast of North Carolina as it strengthened into Tropical Storm Bill on June 14, 2021.

Practice Makes Preparedness: NASA Participates in North Carolina Hurricane Exercise

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In the face of a changing climate, preparedness takes practice! A NASA Disasters team participated in a North Carolina hurricane…

Article2 years ago