Using data from several research satellites, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara.
August 2010 was the second hottest August in the 32-year satellite dataset, with a global temperature that was only 0.01 C cooler than the record set in August 1998. That difference is within the error range, so the two months might as well be tied for the hottest August in 32 years.
Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will team with scientists across the country on what is being described as the premier solar and heliophysics mission of the 21st century.
Change is coming to the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire, and some of the approximately 14,000 people who live there are worried about what that change might bring. How will the largely Roman Catholic population cope with becoming part of Holland, with its liberal Dutch laws and attitudes?
Scientists studying how and why Atlantic hurricanes form will have a better chance of getting the data they need thanks to flight planning software developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Average temperatures for the globe, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres, went up in July despite the continued cooling of the El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event and the apparent transition to a La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event.
Global average temperatures through the first six months of 2010 continue to not set records. June 2010 was the second warmest June in the 32-year satellite temperature record and the first six months of 2010 were also the second warmest on record.
In the race to become the warmest year in the satellite temperature record, 2010 is running a close second to 1998 but might begin to falter as the El Ninåo Pacific Ocean warming event continues to fade.
A new way to use satellite instruments to get reliable surface temperatures over most of the world's land area has been presented by scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event might be fading but temperatures in the Arctic hit record highs in April.
Powered by the most intense El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event since 1997-1998, the first three months of 2010 have all landed among the six warmest months in the satellite temperature record, which starts in December 1978.
The El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event continues to dominate the global temperature keeping it quite warm, although not so in selected locations where many in the U.S. and Europe experienced colder than usual conditions through February.
Dr. Shankar Mahalingam, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Riverside, has been chosen to lead the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
A new fluid model developed by Professor Dastgeer Shaikh from The University of Alabama in Huntsville links turbulence in solar wind to the transfer of energy in space and might help shed light on this mysterious process.
A large El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event exposed the atmosphere to enough extra heat energy to cause the warmest January and the third warmest month overall in 32 years, and the warmest month in almost a decade when compared to seasonal norms.
Dr. Michael Griffin, a professor of aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA Administrator, responds to news reports that President Barack Obama plans to cut funding to NASA's Constellation program.
A new mobile weather radar that is the first of its kind in the Southeast will help scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville study bands of rain and snow that follow some large storm systems.
An El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event kept global temperatures warmer than seasonal norms through December, with temperatures in the tropics a full 0.50 C (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms.
Caron St. John, the associate dean for research, graduate programs & outreach in the College of Business & Behavioral Science at Clemson University, has been chosen to lead the College of Business Administration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Which came first, the warmer temperatures or the clearer skies? Answers to that and similar "chicken or egg" type questions could have a significant impact on our understanding of both the climate system and manmade global warming.
The strong signature of an El Niño Pacific Ocean warming event showed up as the warmest November in 30 years — and not just by a little bit. November 2009 was a full 0.1 C (0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than November 2005, the second warmest November in the 31-year satellite record.
An El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event that caused the second warmest tropical October in 31 years didn't stop the continental U.S. from seeing its second coldest October in that same time.
Researchers and students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville will swap T-shirts and flip flops from studying hurricane Ida for parkas and mukluks to join a multi-university team that is studying blizzards in the upper Midwest.
Scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have developed a three-dimensional simulation model to understand behavior of interplanetary charged particles in space.
A relatively routine El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event shouldn't cause the hottest tropical September in the past 31 years. On top of a record-setting month in the tropics, September 2009 was also the second warmest September on record both globally and in the Northern Hemisphere.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville has created a new interdisciplinary research organization — Center for System Studies —that will address the need for ‘systems thinking’ in industry and the government.
The tropics continued to respond in August to warming caused by the El Niño Pacific Ocean warming event, with the average temperature in the tropics warming. At the same time, non-tropical temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere plunged in August.
One of the world’s leading figures in collaborative public art, University of Alabama in Huntsville Professor Jennifer Marsh, announced a global collaborative project using 8,000 panels to wrap around one of America’s 20th-century icons – the Saturn V Moon Rocket.
The global average temperature jumped 0.41 C from June to July, the largest one-month jump in the 31-year global temperature record. The global average went from normal in June to the second hottest July on record.
The global composite temperature during June 2009 was flat, according to figures from The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Northern Hemisphere experienced a slight increase "” +0.03 C (about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) above 20-year average for June. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere was cooler by the same amount "” -0.03 C (about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) below 20-year average for June.
The global composite temperature during April revealed an increase above the 20-year average for that month. The report is issued monthly as part of an ongoing joint project between The University of Alabama in Huntsville, NOAA and NASA.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Latin American agency to join efforts regarding water resources and environmental management in order to accomplish common sustainable development goals for the Central American region.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) has named Michael Griffin, one of the world's leading aerospace engineers, as an eminent scholar and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
A first-of-its-kind tool that highway planners can use to accurately forecast freight and truck traffic was unveiled this week by researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The global composite temperature increased during March, according to data provided by research scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Data gathered by microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.
Nights are getting hotter among cities in east Africa as growing populations change sensitive local weather patterns, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Large areas of much warmer than normal temperatures over Western Greenland, China and the Northern Pacific Ocean pushed the Northern Hemisphere's average temperature in February to the fifth highest level seen in the 30+ year satellite-based temperature record.
An experiment testing the effects of space radiation on human nerve cells was successfully flown more than 31 kilometers high (about 99,000 feet) and safely returned to Earth by The University of Alabama in Huntsville Space Hardware Club.
A new 3D model linking magnetic fields to the transfer of energy in space might help solve a physics mystery first observed in the solar wind 15 years ago, says a physicist at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Adam Goldstein's first day on the job tending the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was a doozy. He was on duty as a graduate student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville when he witnessed the most powerful gamma-ray event ever detected.
Former Chair of Genetics at Stanford School of Medicine Richard Myers will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team symposium next month at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
As part of an ongoing joint project, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, NOAA and NASA use data gathered by microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.
A unique laboratory at The University of Alabama in Huntsville combines psychology with technology to focus on the interaction between humans and complex systems. Experimentation and research projects include human operator interaction with complex systems.
Dr. John M. Horack, a senior NASA research executive who has been a key scientist in many of the space agency's high-profile programs, has been chosen as the Vice President for Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
In addition to spending $825 billion on an economic stimulus package, President A A finance professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville said President Obama and the new Congress should consider "importing" taxpayers as a quick, low-cost way to boost the economy.
With a global average temperature that was 0.05 C warmer than seasonal norms, 2008 goes into the books as the coolest year since 2000. Global temperatures during 2008 were influenced by a La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event.
A new semantic web search engine developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville is helping scientists who study the environment retrieve the research data they need, and has the potential to help researchers in other fields perform more focused and productive searches.
The first report on data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, which is measuring the size and shape of the sun's "bubble" in space, is scheduled to be presented this weekend at a conference in Hawai'i.
Using only the computing power of 16 Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have solved a mystery about the speed at which vibrating black holes stop vibrating.
Executives with The Boeing Company and academicians at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have taken an important step to fulfill the growing needs of highly-educated professionals in a critical national technology "” modeling and simulation.
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