News articles tagged with 'cloud'
Scientists reach beyond the clouds with mobile phone app to explore the outer atmosphere
— 30 Mar 2011 17:01 | EnvironmentEngineering scientists at the University of Southampton have reached above the clouds in a first-of-its-kind experiment to develop new technologies that probe the stratosphere using…
Cassini spacecraft observes seasonal rains on Titan
— 18 Mar 2011 14:24 | AstronomyAs spring continues to unfold on Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
NC State and IBM researchers discover new way to patch holes in the 'cloud'
— 30 Nov 2010 21:52 | TechnologyResearchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have invented a way to update computer systems packaged in virtual machines in a computer 'cloud' - even when those programs…
GOES-13 satellite sees cold front stalking remnant low of Tomas
— 9 Nov 2010 12:34 | EnvironmentThe GOES-13 satellite is watching a flurry of activity in the Atlantic Ocean today as a cold front approaches the remnants of Hurricane Tomas and threatens to swallow it in the next…
NASA satellite data confirm a stronger Tropical Storm Tomas, hurricane warnings up
— 5 Nov 2010 13:57 | EnvironmentNASA's infrared satellite imagery has confirmed that Tomas is intensifying as convection is strengthening and cloud tops within the system are getting colder…
Rain or shine, Sandia researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output
— 28 Sep 2010 13:21 | TechnologySandia National Laboratories researchers have developed a new system to monitor how clouds affect large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. By observing cloud shape, size and…
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Matthew grow quickly, warnings up in Central America
— 25 Sep 2010 12:35 | EnvironmentAn instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite noticed increasing colder cloud top temperatures of tropical depression 15 in the south-central Caribbean just before it strengthened into Tropical…
NASA's CloudSat satellite sees a powerful heat engine in Typhoon Malakas
— 25 Sep 2010 12:32 | EnvironmentTowering thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are two things that NASA's CloudSat satellite saw as it passed over Typhoon Malakas, and those two factors confirm a strong storm. NASA's CloudSat…
GOES-13 Satellite sees Lisa a tropical storm, for now
— 25 Sep 2010 12:29 | EnvironmentThe GOES-13 satellite has been keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Lisa and watched her birth, graduation to depression then tropical storm and back to depression. Now, Lisa has grown…