California’s battle flames
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
The seven thousand firefighters engaged in a struggle against a series of fires announce progress. Wednesday evening, but it was still about 700 homes, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California. About 600 square kilometers of forest and vegetation have already been destroyed. (more…)
The aurora borealis reveal their secrets through Themis
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
After its launch in February 2007, the group of five satellites in the constellation THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) began a careful study of the Earth’s magnetosphere. This cocoon invisible around the Earth is constantly struck days later by an intense flux of particles ejected by the Sun, the solar wind. (more…)
The streets of clouds over Scandinavia
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
Located at the northern tip of Norway – the most northern European countries – is the aptly named North Cape, which is deemed as a privileged site for observing the aurora borealis. The only land located between North Cape and the North Pole are the Svalbard islands (in the upper left corner). Called in French Spitsbergen, Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe. It has been established by one of the tracking stations of the ESA, (more…)
Bill Gates wants to attack the cyclones
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
In January 2008, Bill Gates had announced qu it was going to take his retirement. It was necessary to understand by there qu it N would have more any function other than that of consultant and of official president of company qu he had founded in 1975, Microsoft. It was made thing since June 27 of the same year, dates to which it was to be devoted entirely with his wife to foundation qu they created in 2000, the Foundation Bill-and-Melinda-Spoil (Bill & Melinda (more…)
Clouds of our atmosphere manufactured… by the cosmic rays
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
By striking the water molecules suspended in the air, the cosmic rays would support the condensation of the water drops and thus the formation of the clouds. The assumption, already put forth, has just received a pretty confirmation thanks to the weather files. Side effect: the solar storms drain the atmosphere… What becomes the powerful cosmic rays, this flood of particles at relativistic speeds, composed with the nine tenth of protons, (more…)
Fires in Greece
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
The Envisat satellite, of Esa, captured the images D thick clouds of smoke coming from forest fires devastating the Greek peninsula and threatening Athens. More than 2.000 firemen and soldiers fight to contain the flames of L the most devastating fire of Greece since 2007. With L time, forest fires mortals had devastated the country killing more than 70 people.These forest fires started late in the evening of Friday in the village of Grammatikos to approximately 40 kilometers in the North-East of Athens. They burned at least 15.000 hectares of ground and constrained of the (more…)
Reversed flashes, which climb towards the sky
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
Curious phenomenon, known recently and badly explained, the ascending flashes leave the top of the clouds of storm in direction of the ionosphere. By chance, an American team could photograph one of them and measure the electric charge of it. Usually, at the time of a storm, the flashes streak the sky between the base of the large clouds of storm, the cumulonimbus, and the ground. Thus the men saw them until the twentieth century. But it of different, is sometimes raised much of it, which is born with the top from these large clouds and slips by to the top, until reaching the (more…)
120 countries gathered for a global crisis
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
Today, one billion people short of water. In 2030, the shortage will affect half of humanity. On this finding has started in Istanbul on Fifth Global Forum on Water. For one week, 30,000 people from around the world, including 15,000 researchers and policy makers, 180 ministers and 25 heads of state will discuss a critical issue for decades to come. The Fifth Global Forum on Water, held every three years by the World Council of Water (World Water Council), has just opened in Istanbul, Turkey, ending March 22. The Secretary-General United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said that water scarcity “may fuel wars and conflicts.” (more…)
Earth seen from space: Aral, ice and salt
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
This image taken by Envisat shows the Aral Sea taken by the ice, which straddles the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. In fact the sea, it is rather a large salt lake. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea has shrunk steadily over the past five decades. In the 1960s, Soviet planners diverted the waters of the two main rivers feeding the sea – the Amu Darya (visible to the south) and the Syr Darya (northeast) – to irrigate cotton plantations the region. (more…)
warming are grossly under-estimated
Posted on 14. Dec, 2009 by admin in Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Featured
The integration of economic factors influencing the ongoing climate warming shows that without a rapid and massive, the situation may be at least twice as bad as expected. A new study spearheaded by a research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), headed by Professor Ronald Prinn, incorporates for the first time a wide range of data and economic forecasts from the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Exchange, which coordinates the capabilities of two research centers at MIT: the Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). (more…)