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2011 Hurricane Season and NASA Research: An Interview with Scott Braun →
Earth Observatory caught up recently with Scott A. Braun, a research meteorologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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On the Hunt for the Birth of a Hurricane →
The AIRS spaceborne instrument is helping in the campaign to understand some of Earth's most powerful storms.
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La Niña's Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo
The Pacific Ocean is currently in between its periodic El Niño and La Niña climate patterns. And that generally means headaches for weather and climate forecasters.
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NASA Chat: Striking Up a Conversation About Lightning
Click to Join the NASA Lightning Expert Chat live on Thursday, June 23 from 7-8 p.m. EDT
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Dr. William Patzert and Sea Level Rise →
Dr. William Patzert of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. talks about sea level rise on April 6, 2011 at the Central Basin Muncipal Water District April Caucus.
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Climate Change, Sea Levels and Barrier Islands
What do a changing climate and rising sea levels mean for thousands of small islands that hug the coasts of the world's landmasses?
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GOES-13 Movie Shows Tornadic Storms Move Through Massachusetts
Animated GOES-13 satellite images show bubbling, severe thunderstorms that generated three tornadoes in Massachusetts June 1.
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Tornado Challenges Satellite Damage Track Detection Techniques
The Short-term Prediction Research and Transition, or SPoRT, team has used satellite data from the North Alabama region to identify tornado damage from the April 27th super storm outbreak.
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Animation of Pacific Ocean Sea Surface Heights Showing El Nino and La Nina Events 1993 to 2011
This animation depicts year-to-year variability in sea surface height, and chronicles two decades of El Nino and La Nina events.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Estimates Australia's Cyclone Season Rainfall
Australia has been hit with a number of cyclones this season, and some of them left behind a legacy of extraordinary amounts of rainfall.
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NASA's Aqua Satellite Tracking 2 Southern Hemisphere Systems for Tropical Development
Two tropical low pressure systems caught the infrared eye of NASA's Aqua satellite today and they're being watched for possible development into tropical cyclones.
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NASA Satellites Eyeing 4 Tropical Systems Around the World For Possible Development
There are four low pressure areas in the tropics today that NASA satellites are all keeping an eye on for possible development.
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Just 5 questions for a NASA Climate Scientist: A La Nina like no other? →
Dr. Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory answers 5 questions about the current La Niña.
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NASA Satellites Capture a Stronger La Nina
New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010.
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Under Pressure: Stormy Weather Sensor for Hurricane Forecasting
It’s hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don’t have a way to measure sea-level air pressure during hurricanes. NASA researchers, however, are working on a system that will improve forecasting of severe ocean weather by doing just that.
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GOES Satellites Looking Back at 2010
A year in review -- looking at the GOES project and how it looks at our world.
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GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England
A powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the low's center off the Massachusetts coast and saw the snowfall left behind.
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GOES Satellites See Holiday Weather Conditions
Travelers over the long holiday weekend can count on one Christmas present: great satellite imagery to aid their journeys.
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Pineapple Express (Pacific Ocean)
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-11 captured an image of the famous "Pineapple Express" at 1800 UTC (1 p.m. EST) on December, 19, 2010.
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JASON-2 Satellite Data Captures La Nina In Force →
The blue area on the Jason-2 image on 11/17/10 is the cooler than normal water associated with La Nina in the Pacific Ocean.