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The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off the A-Train's Track
After 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track."
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GOES-10 Deactivated, GOES-12 Jumps In
On December 2, NOAA officially deactivated its GOES-10 satellite after 12 years of service. By May 2010, the GOES-12 satellite will replace GOES-10, which was covering South America, and GOES-13 will take GOES-12's place over the eastern U.S.
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NASA Marks the Joint Typhoon Warning Center's 50th Anniversary
This year, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) turns 50 years old, and NASA is proud to be one of their partners in tropical cyclone forecasting and research.
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Jason-1: Eight Years and Counting! →
December 7, 2009, marks the eighth anniversary of the Jason-1 launch.
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NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review
NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission on Dec. 2.
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NASA' s TRMM Satellite Measured Philippines' Extreme Tropical Cyclone Rainfall In 2009
Tropical cyclones passing over or near the northern Philippines caused many severe floods, landslides and numerous lost lives during the 2009 western north Pacific typhoon season.
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GOES-14 (O) Moving into On-Orbit Storage Around the Earth
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite named GOES-14, is being placed in on-orbit storage this month to await its call to duty.
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NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite
NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna.
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NASA's Hurricane Page is All "a-Twitter"
In 2005, NASA created the NASA Hurricane and Tropical Cyclone Web page that covers NASA research on tropical cyclones around the world every day. Now, NASA's Hurricane page has a companion "Twitter" page.
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El Niño Pumping Up, Warm Kelvin Wave Surges Toward South America →
Recent sea-level height data from the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite indicates that El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence.
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New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images.
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GOES Offers Real-Time Hurricane Alley Movies
Thanks to NASA's GOES Project, individuals can now access real-time satellite data from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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NASA Satellites Catalog the Deadly History of Tropical Storm Parma
NASA satellites cataloged the deadly history of Tropical Storm Parma, during its long life (Sept 28-Oct 14, 2009) in the Western Pacific, where it caused flooding, destruction and death in the Philippines and China.
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Floundering El Niños Make for Fickle Forecasts
Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niña to her warmer sibling, El Niño.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Ketsana's Record Flooding in Northern Philippines
The latest tropical system to the hit the Philippines, Tropical Storm Ketsana (known locally as "Tropical Storm Ondoy"), has resulted in record flooding in the capital of Manila on the island of Luzon in the northern Philippines.
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Flooding Rains in U.S. Southeast Like Those of a Tropical Storm
So far at least 9 people are dead and others are missing across the southeastern United States as a result of severe flooding brought about by several days worth of heavy showers and thundershowers.
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Three NASA Satellites Get Awesome Views of Super-Typhoon Choi-Wan
NASA's Aqua, CloudSat and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) captured stunning satellite images and different views of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan this week.
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Tropical Cyclone 03B Has Incredible Staying Power Over India
A low that developed in the Bay of Bengal from the monsoon season last week and was briefly classified as a tropical cyclone, named TC 03B, made an inland trek into India and is still going.
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The Strongest Tropical Cyclones of the Last Decade →
This collection of images features the strongest tropical cyclones from all oceans in the past decade.
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NASA Releases GOES-14 Satellite Video of Hurricane Bill
NASA has released a video of Hurricane Bill today from the GOES-14 satellite. The video was put together from a series of still frames taken by the satellite using both infrared and visible imagery and provides different views of Hurricane Bill on August 20.
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NASA's A-Train of Satellites "On Track" With Hurricane Research
NASA has several satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track. They're called the "A-Train" and one of the things they study is tropical cyclones.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season Springs to Life
After a rather slow start, the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season has seen a sudden surge in activity with the rapid emergence of three named storms.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Typhoon Morakot's Massive Flooding in Taiwan
Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan on August 7 and later China on August 10, 2009, bringing an enormous amount of rain that caused massive flooding, devastating mudslides, and loss of life.
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El Niño Conditions Set in Across Pacific Ocean During Hurricane Season →
In July 2009, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center reported that ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific had shifted into El Niño—anomalously warm—conditions.
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First Image from GOES-14
GOES-14 shows first image.
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El Niño Approaches During the Hurricane Season →
Using Jason-2 altimetry data, NASA scientists are closely monitoring the recent Pacific El Niño warming.
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GOES-O Satellite Reaches Orbit and Renamed GOES-14
GOES-O became GOES-14 once it reached its geosynchronous orbit on July 8, 2009.
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Atlantic Ocean Temperatures at End of June 2009
The first month of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season drew to a close without so much as a tropical storm, but that isn’t unusual.
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Five Things About Hurricanes
JPL scientist Bjorn Lambrigtsen, who goes on hurricane watch every June, lists five thoughts about hurricane research.
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NASA Debuts the 2008 Hurricane Season in On-line Video
See the tracks of 2008 storms from Arthur to Paloma from birth to death.
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QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up.
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JPL Wind Watcher Blows Into its Second Decade
Since its launch a decade ago, QuikScat has advanced Earth science research and helped improve environmental predictions using measurements of global radar backscatter from Earth's ocean, land and ice surfaces.
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Follow Ocean Trends From With NASA’s 'Sea Level Viewer'
Internet users can access ocean heat data by using the Sea Level Viewer, an interactive visualization tool developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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NASA AND NOAA’S GOES-O Satellite Ready For Launch
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Forecasters: Cooler Sea Might Dampen Hurricane Season
Summer soon begins in the Northern Hemisphere and, on June 1st, the Atlantic hurricane season kicks off. What can we expect?
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Experiment May Help Forecast Deadly Cyclones
NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop.
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Hispaniola Was a Tropical Cyclone Target Five Times in 2008
In 2008, residents of Hispaniola experienced one of their worst hurricane seasons in recent memory after being pummeled by five tropical cyclones.
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NASA Satellite Sees Flooding in Queensland, Australia
Several low pressure systems and tropical cyclones have caused significant flooding in the Queensland region of Australia so far this year.
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Student Explores Link Between Hurricanes and Sea Surface Height
Plymouth State University student John Sears spent 10 weeks at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center studying the link between sea surface height and tropical storm strength.
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Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Cyclone
A "pre-existing condition" stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma.
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Always Something Brewing Year 'Round on NASA's Hurricane Web Page
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones develop in various places around the world all year 'round, and NASA's Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone Web page covers them.
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NASA Satellites Capture Sea Surface Heights Around the World
NASA satellites Jason-1, Topex/Poseidon, and OSTM/Jason-2 all collect data about sea surface heights around the world. Higher seas indicate warmer waters (that power storms) while lower seas indicate cooler waters (such as those in La Nina events in the eastern Pacific).
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La Niña Returns, NASA Watches Sea Surface Indicators
La Niña conditions are likely to continue in the Northern Hemisphere during the spring of 2009.
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Landsat Sees Louisiana Wetland and Barrier Island Loss from Hurricane Gustav
NASA‘s Landsat 5 satellite, which is operated by the USGS, captured revealing images of the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav.
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NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.