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Atmospheric Winds News

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Curved barchan dunes and a straight seif dune lie in the north polar region of Mars, where the first significant change to sand dunes was detected in 2008.

Unearthly Dunes

Slow-moving landforms in Alaska decipher the frigid surface of Mars.

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Dec. 28, 2020

Wind speeds at a height of 80 meters (262 feet), or approximately the hub height of a turbine, indicate a viable wind resource in the study area.

The Power of a Brazilian Wind

Researchers discover that coastal winds could help change Brazil's energy portfolio.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Heavy winds and stormy seas cause the cargo ship Rena to run aground on October 5, 2011, spilling its cargo and eventually sinking.

Heavy Weather, High Seas

Can dangerous sea states be predicted?

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Hurricane Katrina's eyewall swirls in a photograph by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) P-3 hurricane hunter pilot on August 28, 2005, a day before the powerful storm slammed into the United States Gulf Coast.

Data More Powerful than Hurricanes

New ways of looking at data help storm forecasters and emergency managers solve challenges and prevent hurricane losses.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

The NSCAT image above shows Typhoon Violet near Japan in 1996.

Reckoning with Winds

NSCAT wind vectors and SSM/I precipitable water color images reveal the physics in action for typhoons.

Feature Article

July 28, 2020

This photograph shows the smoke plume from the World Trade Center collapse drifting over New York City and New Jersey on the morning of September 11, 2001.

Following the World Trade Center Plume

Remote sensing helps track the drift of harmful pollutants following the World Trade Center collapse.

Feature Article

July 22, 2020

The image above shows part of an ISCCP single global snap-shot of clouds.

"But the winds... but the spaces"

Explaining the intraseasonal oscillation blowing eastward along the equator.

Feature Article

July 21, 2020

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