Posts for tag "weather"
Smaller Buoys Fill In The Gaps of Coastal Hurricane Monitoring Networks
As hurricane frequency and severity continue to increase, real-time monitoring along the coast has become more and more important to disaster mitigation and developing forecasting models. In response to this, coastal observation networks across the United States...
- Posted October 20, 2025
From Paddles to Phytoplankton: Studying Vermont’s Wildest Lakes
For six months of the year, Rachel Cray, a third-year PhD student at the Vermont Limnology Laboratory at the University of Vermont, lives between a microscope and her laptop, running data. For the other six months, she...
- Posted July 7, 2025
Safeguarding Communities with Real-Time Flood Monitoring in the City of Hazelwood
The City of Hazelwood is a suburb in St. Louis County, Missouri, home to around 25,500 people. Recently, the community has suffered increased flash flooding following severe storms, prompting the need for the installation of a flood...
- Posted April 7, 2025
Atlantic Ocean Overturning Circulation Weakening with Warming
Researchers reveal that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weaker than it’s been in 1,600 years—and why.
- Posted June 7, 2018
Weather Extremes Shaking Up Fouling Communities in Urban Estuaries
The extreme weather caused by climate change means disruptions in fouling communities in urban estuaries, and new threats from invasive species.
- Posted January 15, 2018
HELIX Climate Modeling Project Yields Good News, Bad News for Future of Global Climate
High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX) project undertaken by 50 scientists in 13 countries gives some insight into mitigating global climate change.
- Posted January 10, 2018
NCAR Model Gives U. of Texas Researchers Advanced Tool for Predicting La Niña Drought Impact
Researchers used NCAR model simulations incorporating sea surface, ocean current and other data to improve La Niña multi-year drought impact predictions.
- Posted December 14, 2017
Working With the Community, Not In Spite of it: The Water Institute of the Gulf
The Water Institute of the Gulf is using new approaches to harness the power of community knowledge in service to scientific goals.
- Posted December 6, 2017
All-In-One Weather Station: G2-MET
NexSens G2-MET weather station features real-time weather measurements in a fully integrated and easy to install package.
- Posted March 3, 2017
Predicting Wildfire Movement With Multiparameter Weather Sensors
A network of multiparameter weather sensors in California helps keep the Sunrise Powerlink clean energy line safe from California wildfires.
- Posted September 9, 2016
Transition To La Niña Seems Likely
With El Niño waning, a question on the mind of a few meteorologists is whether La Niña will take its place. According to a release from Washington State University, the data indicate that La Niña is probably...
- Posted May 5, 2016
Citizen Scientists Can Help Deep Hail Project
If you live in Colorado and use Twitter, Facebook or even plain email, researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder would like your help with the Deep Hail Project. The effort is looking to gauge the...
- Posted April 29, 2016
Southern Ocean Clouds Need More Attention In Climate Models
Scientists at U. of Washington study the workings of Southern Ocean clouds to improve the long-term reliability of climate models.
- Posted April 22, 2016
North American Climate Model More Precise With Improvements
According to a release from Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have succeeded in significantly improving the resolution of a North American climate model, meaning higher accuracy for future climate forecasts. Instead of dividing North America into square patches...
- Posted March 11, 2016
Weather Bike Dissects Urban Heat Island Effect
A researcher at the University at Buffalo uses a bicycle-mounted weather station to study Cleveland’s urban heat island effect.
- Posted March 4, 2016
Dissecting Amazon Rainforest Cloud Formation
A Penn State University study looks at how lessening Amazon Rainforest cloud formation could be a bad thing for larger climatic conditions.
- Posted February 10, 2016
Climate Change Expected To Affect Monsoons Gradually
Monsoons are massive air circulations that may or may not contain rain depending on the season. Although it has long been acknowledged that climate change is likely to affect monsoons, influencing rainfall patterns over large swaths of...
- Posted February 8, 2016
Clouds Affect El Niño More Than Previously Realized
While it is widely acknowledged that El Niño/Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, affects weather, a Phys.org post suggests that while ENSO’s effects have been incorporated into many climate models, it is possible that a factor influencing ENSO has...
- Posted January 19, 2016
RainWise Weather Stations, Telemetry And Accessories
A roundup of RainWise weather stations, telemetry options and accessories.
- Posted January 18, 2016
Radiosondes Improve Weather Forecasts For Arctic Northern Sea Route
The Arctic’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) may become more attractive for transport in the future as sea ice continues to decline due to global warming effects. However, sea ice loss also can cause severe weather changes, meaning...
- Posted January 18, 2016
