Atmospheric

Greenhouse Gases- Blame Ancient Rome Too

The Greenland ice sheet has a tale to tell about ancient greenhouse gas emissions too. Researchers have determined how much methane originates from natural sources and how much is due to human activity, from Roman times to the present. Methane is an undere ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2012 - 1:04pm

Liquids And Jellies: Atmospheric Particles Resist Chemical Aging, Form Clouds

Secondary organic materials  (SOM) in the atmosphere form two distinct types, liquids and jellies, and these airborne particles have begun to react with gases in the atmosphere. In the last 20 years' research and climate modeling, these SOM particles ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2012 - 4:33pm

CO2 Indoors Marked For Concern Also

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory may have discovered why so little that makes sense results from political meetings- moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2) can significantly impair people's decision-making ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2012 - 4:07pm

Wind Shear Fights Tropical Storm Maria

Tropical Storm Maria is moving away from Japan and strong wind shear is pushing its rainfall east of the storm's center, with no areas of heavy rain remaining in the tropical cyclone.  The low-level center of the storm is now exposed and a wind shear ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2012 - 5:43pm

Climate Change Feeds Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy, 2012: Massive and dangerous Hurricane Sandy has grown to record size as it barrels northeastwards along the North Carolina coast...- Jeff Masters, Weather Underground, Oct. 28 2012. Science paper, 2010: Fewer but fiercer and more-destructi ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Oct 29 2012 - 1:41pm

Gooier CO2 Could Make Fracking More Efficient And Help Solve Climate Change Too

University of Pittsburgh professor Eric Beckman and colleague Bob Enick have been intent on solving a decades-old mystery- how to increase the viscosity of liquid CO2 so it can better extract oil from its hiding spots inside the pores of underground sands ...

Article - Brita Belli - Nov 6 2012 - 2:08pm

Kerosene From Lamps Of A Billion People A Big Source Of Black Carbon

Kerosene is the the primary source of light for more than a billion people in developing nations and it is churning out black carbon previously overlooked in greenhouse gas estimates, says a new study.  Results from field and lab tests found that 7 to 9 p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2012 - 6:55pm

CO2 Emissions And The 2-Degree Target: Rich Country Mitigation Alone Not Working

Global carbon dioxide emission reductions that would be needed to limit global warming to 2°C aren't happening, according to new figures produced by the Global Carbon Project (GCP). Global CO2 emissions have increased by 58% since 1990, they estimate ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2012 - 11:30am

Super-Typhoon Bopha In The Philippines

Two NASA satellites,  Terra and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), gathered data as a Super Typhoon passed over Bopha on Dec. 2nd, gathering valuable data for forecasters. Since then, Bopha's maximum sustained winds fluctuated up and dow ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2012 - 9:50am

Typhoon Bopha Philippines Rainfall Totals- Seen From Space

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was able to estimate rainfall rates  of Typhoon Bopha over the Philippines, where severe flooding killed several hundred people. Bopha is now a tropical storm in the South China Sea but high ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2012 - 12:06am