News articles tagged with 'forecast'
Pakistan floods last summer could have been predicted
— 1 Feb 2011 20:00 | EnvironmentFive days before intense monsoonal deluges unleashed vast floods across Pakistan last July, computer models at a European weather-forecasting centre were giving clear indications that…
Satellites give an eagle eye on thunderstorms
— 16 Dec 2010 16:34 | EnvironmentIt's one of the more frustrating parts of summer. You check the weather forecast, see nothing dramatic, and go hiking or biking. Then, four hours later, a thunderstorm appears out of…
Researchers find mathematical patterns to forecast earthquakes
— 2 Dec 2010 19:52 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) and the Universidad de Sevilla (US) have found patterns of behaviour that occur before an earthquake on the Iberian peninsula.…
Fire forecast technology could help rescue teams save lives
— 30 Nov 2010 21:45 | TechnologyFires in homes and offices could be tackled more efficiently using technology that predicts how a blaze will spread…
Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner and thinner?
— 22 Oct 2010 19:10 | EnvironmentThe extent of the sea ice in the Arctic will reach its annual minimum in September. Forecasts indicate that it will not be as low as in 2007, the year of the smallest area covered by…
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…
Report issued today examines improving long-term climate forecasts
— 9 Sep 2010 10:39 | EnvironmentOperational forecasting centres produce climate predictions that provide input for important decisions regarding water management, agriculture, and energy. 'Assessment of Intraseasonal…
New method successfully predicted how oil from Deepwater Horizon spill would spread
— 3 Sep 2010 11:52 | EnvironmentPrompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several…
Warnings up for Tropical Depression 5 in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
— 12 Aug 2010 07:21 | EnvironmentOne of the two systems that forecasters have been closely watching in the Atlantic Ocean Basin became the fifth tropical depression at 7:30 p.m. EDT on August 10 in the northeastern…