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Model for Predicting Coastal Storm Damage in the North Sea

July 7, 2016 — A system for predicting storm damage by waves in northern areas of the North Sea has been developed by mathematicians. The north-east Scottish coast was found to be more exposed to swell arriving ... read more

Danger from Extreme Storms, High Seas to Rise, Warn Australian Researchers

June 8, 2016 — Storms that battered Australia's east coast are a harbinger of things to come and a stark reminder of the need for a national effort to monitor the growing threat from climate change, coastal ... read more

Storm Fingerprints Show Past and Future

June 7, 2016 — Researchers are using "fingerprints" left by strong storms on the ocean floor to better understand storms that have already happened and to model and predict how future storms will ... read more

Scientists Explain the Art of Creating Digital Hurricanes

May 25, 2016 — A team of scientists spends its days incorporating millions of atmospheric observations, sophisticated graphic tools and lines of computer code to create computer models simulating the weather and ... read more

Early Use of 'Hurricane Hunter' Data Improves Hurricane Intensity Predictions

May 25, 2016 — Data collected via airplane when a hurricane is developing can improve hurricane intensity predictions by up to 15 percent, according to researchers who have been working to put the new technique ... read more

Will More Snow Over Antarctica Offset Rising Seas? Don't Count on It

May 19, 2016 — Heavier snow over Antarctica was supposed to be one of the few brakes on sea-level rise in a warming world. But that prediction is not reliable, says a new study of Antarctic snowfall over the past ... read more

In Cities, Flooding and Rainfall Extremes to Rise as Climate Changes

May 9, 2016 — Cities face harsher, more concentrated rainfall as climate change not only intensifies storms, but draws them into narrower bands of more intense downpours, Australian engineers have determined. The ... read more

Large-Scale Data Study of Super Storm Sandy Utility Damage Shows 'Small' Failures, Big Impact

May 9, 2016 — A new study shows the extent of the challenge faced by the upstate New York distribution grid during Super Storm Sandy in October 2012, and suggests what might be done to make the system more ... read more

Scientist Will Use Satellite Data to Study Lightning That Sizzles

May 6, 2016 — Researchers want to learn more about long-stroke lightning that makes things ... read more

Size Matters: NASA Measures Raindrop Sizes from Space to Understand Storms

Mar. 31, 2016 — For the first time, scientists have three-dimensional snapshots of raindrops and snowflakes around the world from ... read more

Storm Surges Projections in Europe

Mar. 30, 2016 — Coastal flooding is often caused by extreme events, such as storm surges, which in some areas may be amplified by climate change. A number of studies have evaluated the dynamics of future extreme ... read more

GOES-R Satellite Could Provide Better Data for Hurricane Prediction

Mar. 24, 2016 — The launch of the GOES-R geostationary satellite in Oct. 2016 could herald a new era for predicting hurricanes, according to researchers. The wealth of information from this new satellite, at time ... read more

Predicting Severe Hail Storms

Mar. 23, 2016 — Researchers used the Stampede supercomputer to gain a better understanding of the conditions that cause severe hail to form, and to produce hail forecasts with far greater accuracy than those ... read more

Climate Variations Analyzed Five Million Years Back in Time

Mar. 16, 2016 — When we talk about climate change today, we have to recognize the natural variations to be able to distinguish them from the human-induced changes. Researchers have analyzed the natural climate ... read more

Hydrocarbon Storage, Fracking and Lightning Risk

Mar. 14, 2016 — Fires caused by lightning strikes on hydrocarbon storage plants are a century-old, yet to be addressed, problem, according to new research. In the era of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, this is ... read more

Science Can Now Link Climate Change With Some Extreme Weather Events

Mar. 11, 2016 — Extreme weather events like floods, heat waves and droughts can devastate communities and populations worldwide. Recent scientific advances have enabled researchers to confidently say that the ... read more

Why Hurricane Irene Fizzled as It Neared New Jersey in 2011

Mar. 8, 2016 — A dynamic process that cools the coastal ocean and can weaken hurricanes was discovered as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New Jersey, according to a new study. The study's findings could help ... read more

Citizen Scientists Help NASA Researchers Understand Auroras

Mar. 7, 2016 — Aurorasaurus is a citizen science project that tracks auroras through the project's website, mobile apps and ... read more

New York Harbor's Oyster Beds Once Protected Against Severe Storm and Extreme Wave Damage

Mar. 7, 2016 — A recent study of past disturbance of the oyster beds in New York Harbor led by geoscientists is the first to link Europeans' overharvesting and disturbance of the ancient shellfish beds to loss ... read more

In a U.S. First, Team Measures Lightning-Produced Ozone With Lidar

Feb. 16, 2016 — Scientists have used Rocket-city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar to measure ozone produced by lightning in the United States. The research could be important to air ... read more
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