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New Normals: Sea Ice Index to Change to a 30-year Base Period in July

Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center

NOAA@NSIDC plans to change the baseline climatological period for the Sea Ice Index and the Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis (ASINA) from 22 years (1979-2000, inclusive) to 30 years (1981-2010, inclusive) this July. A 30-year period typically define ...
Full article at: National Snow & Ice Data Center More like this 1 day ago, 1:34pm CDT

This is what Antarctica looks like without ice

Source: The Week

Bedmap2, as it's called, was created by culling together millions of measurements from satellite imagery, aircraft using radio echo sound, and cartographic data, to create the most accurate map of the hidden contin ...
Full article at: The Week More like this Jun 6 2013, 12:38pm CDT

Acting NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan gives keynote address at Capitol Hill Oceans Week

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Welcome everyone! What a great turn out! Over 700 registrants. What a great turn out. Believe it or not, this is my first time at CHOW. It didn’t exist when I served as NOAA’s Chief Scientist in the early ‘90s, much though we n ...
Full article at: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration More like this Jun 6 2013, 11:32am CDT

NASA sees heavy rainfall in tropical storm Andrea

Source: PhysOrg.com

NASA's TRMM satellite flew directly above tropical storm Andrea on June 5 at 22:34 UTC (6:34 p.m. EDT) just an hour after the National Hurricane Center named the storm. The heaviest rainfall of 124.5 mm per hour (~4.9 inches per hour) w ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com More like this Jun 6 2013, 11:15am CDT

Big Data From Space: Imagery of Rome Delivered in Near Real Time

Source: Space Ref

DMCii and long-term partner Spacemetric, have successfully delivered an image from satellite to end-user in just 11 minutes, as part of a demonstration at the European Space Agency's 'Big Data from Space' confe ...
Full article at: Space Ref More like this Jun 6 2013, 8:54am CDT

NASA spacecraft sees tornado's destructive swath

Source: PhysOrg.com

The Newcastle-Moore EF-5 tornado ripped through central Oklahoma on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and leaving behind more than $2 billion in damage. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTE ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com More like this Jun 6 2013, 7:09am CDT

Mars rover reaching turning point

Source: BBC News

6 June 2013 Last updated at 04:24 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News Immediate target: Point Lake has an appearance reminiscent of Swiss cheese Nasa is finally thinking about getting its Curios ...
Full article at: BBC News More like this Jun 6 2013, 3:24am CDT

Frager's Hardware Store Fire: 93-Year-Old Store In Washington, D.C. Burns (VIDEO)

Source: The Huffington Post

Niger Delta ExxonMobil Spill, Nigeria - May 2010 In Nigeria's Akwa Ibom State, an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on May 1 and spilled over a million gallons of oil, reported the Guardian. The leak continued for seve ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post More like this Jun 5 2013, 11:18pm CDT

Solar-powered phones could listen for illegal loggers

Source: MSNBC

Technology Devin Coldewey NBC News 24 minutes ago Pete Oxford A view of the Amazon Rainforest, which faces similar problems with deforestation. If a tree falls in the (rain) forest, and no one is there to hear it (except illega ...
Full article at: MSNBC More like this Jun 5 2013, 8:25pm CDT

TROPICAL STORM ANDREA FORMS IN GULF OF MEXICO

Source: Surfline

The first tropical storm of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season has formed in the Gulf of Mexico Surfline forecaster Kurt Korte breaks down the latest with Tropical Storm Andrea in the Gulf of Mexico. UPDATE EFFECTIVE: 6PM Wednesd ...
Full article at: Surfline More like this Jun 5 2013, 7:38pm CDT