While 2012 was the ninth warmest year globally, it was the warmest year on record for both the contiguous 48 U.S. states and for the continental U.S. For the U.S., 2012 started with one of the three warmest Januaries in the 34-year record, and saw a record-setting March heat wave.
People with respiratory problems can get an instant up-to-date local report on a key air pollutant through a new free mobile phone app created at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are using a collaboration portal designed to encourage collaborative “open science” by providing scientists with the capability to easily organize, discover, and share data, tools and information.
The pause in the anticipated El Niño Pacific Ocean warming event — seen in the sea surface temperatures in the Pacific during the past two months — is now appearing in the tropical upper air.
Students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have designed a tool that could revolutionize new ways of using electronic devices with just one hand. It’s called a Gauntlet Keyboard, a glove device that functions as a wireless keyboard.
Jason Martin, Brad Chassee and Tony Rainoldi, the founders of ArchPatent and graduates of The University of Alabama in Huntsville, have found an easy, low-cost way to navigate the enormous database of patent information or be confident that you were identifying the most important results.
Can a device formerly used to test nuclear weapons effects find a new life in rocket propulsion research? That is the question in which a graduate student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville seeks an answer.
UAHuntsville students are working to develop micro-UAVs that could provide low-cost surveillance while enhancing the variety of uses for these UAVs. The U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Research and Development Center on Redstone Arsenal provided the original program funding.
Compared to global seasonal norms, May 2012 was the fourth warmest in the 34-year satellite record, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
As daily news of cyber crimes, such as bullying, sextortion and pornography, and other forms of fraud are reported, deciphering good from bad web sites is key to navigating the Internet in today’s fast paced technological society according to communications professor Dr. Pavica Sheldon, at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville).
Spring brought somewhat more seasonal temperatures to the continental U.S., although it was still warmer than seasonal norms in April, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The ticket to Mars and beyond may be a series of nuclear slapshots that use magnetic pulses to slam nuclei into each other inside hockey pucks made of a special, lightweight salt, according to physicists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Compared to seasonal norms, March 2012 was the warmest month on record in the 48 contiguous U.S. states. Temperatures over the U.S. averaged 2.82 C (almost 5.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal in March.
During some winters a significant amount of snow falls on parts of California. During other winters — like this one (so far) — there is much less snow. But more than 130 years of snow data show that over time snowfall in California is neither increasing nor decreasing.
A large band of cooler than normal air girdled the globe from South America across the Pacific and from South America northeast across North Africa, Europe and central Asia during February.
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville scientists use data gathered by NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.
Research by two faculty members from The University of Alabama in Huntsville were published in the prestigious journal Science for their investigation of the unethical practices of some journal publications.
Dr. Jim Simpson and Dr. Yeqing Bao, marketing professors at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, are compiling research that could serve as a road map for how developing countries like China can most effectively market their products in developed markets such as the United States.
It was 25 years ago that Jim Ashburn, then a first year physics graduate student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, created the formula for the world's first "high temperature" superconductor.
2011 was the ninth warmest year (globally averaged) in the 33-year global satellite record despite La Niña Pacific Ocean cooling events at the start and finish of the year.
November 2011 completes 33 years of satellite-based global temperature data. Globally averaged, Earth’s atmosphere has warmed about 0.82° F during the almost one-third of a century that sensors aboard NOAA and NASA satellites have measured the temperature of oxygen molecules in the air.
Temperatures in both hemispheres and the tropics dropped through October as a new La Niña Pacific Ocean cooling event strengthened in the ocean west of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
Sigmatech Corp. has provided a $1 million gift to establish an eminent scholar chair in global understanding at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The addition of a new robotic polisher allows researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will allow the university to create optical devices of greater size and quality than ever before, and that could have major implications to support research for both the public and private sectors.
September 2011 was the fifth warmest September in the past 34 years — fifth warmest globally and in both hemispheres. Last winter’s La Niña Pacific Ocean cooling event has faded and a new one appears to be forming, the tropics continue to be warmer than seasonal norms.
A system that uses data from satellites to predict “pop up” thunderstorms has been incorporated into the weather forecasting software used to plan thousands of airline and commercial airplane flights in the U.S. every day.
Robert A. Altenkirch, president of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been chosen to lead The University of Alabama in Huntsville. The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System voted unanimously for his appointment in a meeting today on the UAHuntsville campus.
A health-information, decision technology company that integrates real time organizational data with research in order to improve quality, patient satisfaction, and financial outcomes of hospitals has been created by faculty members at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Averaged globally, August 2011 was the third warmest August in the past 34 years. The Southern Hemisphere saw its second warmest August in that time, while it was the fourth warmest August in the Northern Hemisphere.
Data from NASA's Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth's atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to "believe."
The mirrors that Dr. James Hadaway and his associates at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will soon test for NASA's next great space observatory look pretty much like he thought they should look 15 years ago.
A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville want to learn more about the physics behind the deadly outbreak of tornadoes earlier this year, as well as the psychology and sociology of storm warnings and what might be done to make warnings more effective.
Preliminary temperatures taken from satellite measurements of the Earth's atmosphere reveal that global temperatures continue to rise.
Pacific cooling fades, temperatures rise
The southeastern U.S. might be uniquely equipped with the right combination of natural resources to meet the nation’s growing demand for farm products, according to a scientist with The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Global temperatures rebounded during April folllowing La Nina lows in March. April's composite temperature was 0.22 degrees F above 30-year average for April. Driven by the La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event, global average temperatures in March 2011 were the coolest March since 1999.
Computer models used to forecast storms don't (yet) know how to take advantage of the additional capabilities that will be available from dual-polarimetric radars. Scientists at UAHuntsville are studying how forecast models can best use the enhanced information to improve storm forecasts.
Driven by the La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event, global average temperatures in March 2011 were the coolest March since 1999, according to Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
After spending the summer working at NASA's Langley Research Center, a graduate student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville is developing techniques that will help instruments aboard satellites more accurately measure both cloud cover and dust in the atmosphere around the globe.
The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated at The University of Alabama in Huntsville using regional climate models and data from NASA satellites.
The La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event continues to pull down temperatures, with the global average temperature falling below seasonal norms for the first time in 18 months and only the second time in almost two and a half years.
Who would have guessed that the perfect place to gather detailed scientific data from a powerful snowstorm would be in Alabama? That turned out to be the case during a snowstorm earlier this month for scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
A strain of bacteria found in soil is being studied for its ability to convert waste from a promising alternative fuel into several useful materials, including another alternative fuel.
The year 2010 finished in a photo finish with 1998 for the warmest year in the 32-year satellite temperature record. 2010 was only 0.013 C cooler than 1998, an amount that is not statistically significant.
A research team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville announced that the GBM telescope has detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth by energetic processes similar to those found in particle accelerators.
November 2010 came in as the third warmest November in the 32-year satellite temperature record, but still warmer than November 1998. From January through November, that leaves 2010 only 0.012 C (0.022° F) cooler than 1998, which was the warmest year in the satellite record.
How warm has 2010 been? So warm that although October was the coolest month so far this year year (compared to seasonal norms), it tied October 2006 as the second warmest October in the 32-year satellite climate record.
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will play a crucial role in determining whether humans will be able to peer at galaxies formed when the universe was taking shape billions of years ago.
A brave little experiment being designed and built at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will endure temperatures approaching 2 million degrees Fahrenheit in an attempt to help scientists explain why the sun’s atmosphere is so hot.
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