NASA Shows Current Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined
A major source of water for San Francisco and California’s Central Valley is the Tuolumne River Basin in California’s Sierra Nevada. New data from NASA…
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New Research Examines the Intersection of Weather and Climate
A new study probes the global interactions between weather and climate, revealing the seasonal “fingerprints” of Arctic sea ice, El Nino, and other climate phenomena….
MIT Study Predicts Frequency of Heavy Precipitation with Global Warming
Researchers from MIT reveal that extreme precipitation events should become more frequent as the Earth’s climate warms over this century. On December 11, 2014, a…
AIM Spacecraft Observes Early Noctilucent Ice Clouds Over Antarctica
Data from NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent,…
El Niño Continues to Grow, Set to Bear Down on U.S.
The latest satellite image from the U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 mission shows that the current strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean…
2015 El Niño Appears Likely to Equal the Event of 1997-98
NASA scientists continue to monitor and study this year’s El Niño, which appears likely to equal the event of 1997-98 – the strongest El Niño…
“Grey Swan” Cyclones Will Become More Frequent and Intense
A newly published study from MIT and Princeton University reveals that “grey swan” cyclones will become more frequent and intense over the next century. “Grey…
How Rain Droplets Attract Aerosols Out of the Atmosphere
Atmospheric chemists from MIT test how effective rain is at cleaning the atmosphere, revealing the most accurate values of coagulation to date. As a raindrop…
NOAA: July 2015 The Warmest Month Ever Recorded
A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals that July 2015 had the all-time highest monthly temperature in the 1880–2015 record, at…
California Valley Land Continues to Sink
California farmers have been forced to pump large amounts of groundwater in response to the historic drought, causing the land to sink and putting nearby…
New Timescale Firmly Implicates Volcanic Eruptions as the Dominant Drivers of Past Climate Variability
A newly published study resolves the inconsistencies in the timing of atmospheric volcanic aerosol loading determined from ice cores and subsequent cooling from climate proxies…
Study Shows Carbon Emissions Could Increase Risk of Megadroughts
A new study from NASA reveals that droughts in the U.S. Southwest and Central Plains during the last half of this century could be drier…
Fermi Helps Study Gamma-ray Thunderstorms
A short video details how scientists merged data on high-energy bursts seen on Earth by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with data from ground-based radar…
Possibility of El Niño Event in 2014 is Fading
Climatologists believe the latest Kelvin waves are the “last hurrah” for a much-hoped-for El Niño event in 2014. Prospects have been fading for an El…
Research Shows Human Contribution to Glacier Mass Loss Has Steadily Increased
By using computer simulations of the climate, researchers have found evidence for anthropogenic glacier mass loss in recent decades. In a paper published in the…
New NASA/NOAA Animations Reveal Water Vapor Over Oceans
Scientists have used observations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites to create two new types of animations that indicate where…
New ScienceCast Video Examines the Evidence That an El Niño is Developing
A new four minute long ScienceCast video examines the evidence that an El Niño is developing in the Pacific. Every ten days, the NASA/French Space…
AIM Monitors Electric-Blue Noctilucent Clouds over Antarctica
New data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft show a vast bank of noctilucent clouds blanketing Antarctica. Data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are…