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Super Typhoon Bavi

#Atmosphere #AtmosphericPhenomena #Atmosphericscience #EarthScience #Hydrology #Hyperwall #Location #Naturalhazards

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Super Typhoon Bavi

#Atmosphere #AtmosphericPhenomena #Atmosphericscience #EarthScience #Hydrology #Hyperwall #Location #Naturalhazards

⏩ 1 new picture and 1 new video from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+SVS+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1

Targeted marine cloud brightening is a short-term geoengineering intervention designed to weaken the extreme weather impacts of "super" El Niño events by increasing the reflectivity of oceanic cloud cover.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #Meteorology #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/as07092601.html

Targeted marine cloud brightening is a short-term geoengineering intervention designed to weaken the extreme weather impacts of "super" El Niño events by increasing the reflectivity of oceanic cloud cover.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #Meteorology #Oceanography #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/as07092601.html

Satellites Reveal Earth Has a Surprising Symmetry In The Way It Reflects light And It Might Be Tied To The El Nino Cycle

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/25/satellites-reveal-earth-has-a-surprising-symmetry-in-the-way-it-reflects-light-and-it-might-be-tied-to-the-el-nino-cycle/

Satellites Reveal Earth Has a Surprising Symmetry In The Way It Reflects light And It Might Be Tied To The El Nino Cycle

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/25/satellites-reveal-earth-has-a-surprising-symmetry-in-the-way-it-reflects-light-and-it-might-be-tied-to-the-el-nino-cycle/

Long-term sea-surface temperature changes in the Atlantic Ocean are primarily driven by human emissions, whereas temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean are largely governed by natural, internal ocean variability.
#Meteorology #Climatology #AtmosphericScience #Oceanography #EarthScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/as06172601.html

Long-term sea-surface temperature changes in the Atlantic Ocean are primarily driven by human emissions, whereas temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean are largely governed by natural, internal ocean variability.
#Meteorology #Climatology #AtmosphericScience #Oceanography #EarthScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/as06172601.html

Atmospheric chemistry is a specialized branch of atmospheric science focused on the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of other planets.
#AtmosphericChemistry #AtmosphericScience #Chemistry #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/cat05242601.html

Atmospheric chemistry is a specialized branch of atmospheric science focused on the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere and the atmospheres of other planets.
#AtmosphericChemistry #AtmosphericScience #Chemistry #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/cat05242601.html

Coastal regions face severe, accelerated risks from relative sea-level rise, a phenomenon driven by the dual impact of climate-driven ocean expansion and localized land sinking (subsidence).
#Geodesy #Geodynamics #Hydrology #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/es05182601.html

Coastal regions face severe, accelerated risks from relative sea-level rise, a phenomenon driven by the dual impact of climate-driven ocean expansion and localized land sinking (subsidence).
#Geodesy #Geodynamics #Hydrology #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/es05182601.html

Coastal regions face severe, accelerated risks from relative sea-level rise, a phenomenon driven by the dual impact of climate-driven ocean expansion and localized land sinking (subsidence).
#Geodesy #Geodynamics #Hydrology #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/es05182601.html

Coastal regions face severe, accelerated risks from relative sea-level rise, a phenomenon driven by the dual impact of climate-driven ocean expansion and localized land sinking (subsidence).
#Geodesy #Geodynamics #Hydrology #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/es05182601.html

Coastal regions face severe, accelerated risks from relative sea-level rise, a phenomenon driven by the dual impact of climate-driven ocean expansion and localized land sinking (subsidence).
#Geodesy #Geodynamics #Hydrology #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/es05182601.html

Coal plants persist as a large barrier to the global solar energy transition

Three-step framework for PV generation and losses A three-step framework was developed to estimate facility-level PV energy generation…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #atmosphericscience #Climate-changemitigation #coal #environmentalimpact #Photovoltaics #Science #SustainableDevelopment
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/649295/

Geoengineering, also referred to as climate engineering, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climatic system with the primary goal of mitigating the adverse effects of anthropogenic global warming.
#Geoengineering #AtmosphericScience #EarthScience #Chemistry #Engineering #Biogeochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/cat05172601.html

Geoengineering, also referred to as climate engineering, is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climatic system with the primary goal of mitigating the adverse effects of anthropogenic global warming.
#Geoengineering #AtmosphericScience #EarthScience #Chemistry #Engineering #Biogeochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/cat05172601.html

Evaluative governance is a systemic framework that integrates objective scientific data with social values to determine acceptable climate limits and drive actionable policy.
#Environmental #MarineBiology #Ecology #AtmosphericScience #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/env05122601.html

Evaluative governance is a systemic framework that integrates objective scientific data with social values to determine acceptable climate limits and drive actionable policy.
#Environmental #MarineBiology #Ecology #AtmosphericScience #SocialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/env05122601.html

A #Venusian atmospheric hydraulic jump is an abrupt slowing and deepening of a fast-moving atmospheric fluid, which creates a massive 6,000-kilometer-wide wave front in the planet's cloud layer. It forces sulfuric acid vapor upward, condensing it into a distinctly visible, planetary-scale line of cloud.
#PlanetaryScience #AtmosphericScience #Meteorology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ps05102601.html

A #Venusian atmospheric hydraulic jump is an abrupt slowing and deepening of a fast-moving atmospheric fluid, which creates a massive 6,000-kilometer-wide wave front in the planet's cloud layer. It forces sulfuric acid vapor upward, condensing it into a distinctly visible, planetary-scale line of cloud.
#PlanetaryScience #AtmosphericScience #Meteorology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ps05102601.html

Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html

Recent research demonstrates that while moderate ambient temperature increases can benefit bumble bees by expanding optimal foraging hours, extreme heat events severely threaten colony survival, particularly for populations utilizing above-ground nests.
#Entomology #Ecology #BehavioralScience #AtmosphericScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/ent05062601.html

Rising global temperatures and shifting climate patterns are projected to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into previously unaffected regions of South America over the next two to four decades, significantly increasing the risk of zoonotic spillover to new human populations.
#Veterinary #Epidemiology #Virology #AtmosphericScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/epi05042601.html

Rising global temperatures and shifting climate patterns are projected to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into previously unaffected regions of South America over the next two to four decades, significantly increasing the risk of zoonotic spillover to new human populations.
#Veterinary #Epidemiology #Virology #AtmosphericScience #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/epi05042601.html

Recreating Atmospheres

In planetary atmospheres, energy and vorticity can cascade from large scales to smaller ones, but the mechanics of this transfer remain somewhat elusive. In a recent experiment, researchers built a lab-scale representation of an atmosphere using a meter-scale rotating annular tank. The outer bottom edge of the tank gets heated–representing the sun’s warming at the equator–while a pipe in the center of the tank gets cooled near the tank surface, which mimics the chilling effect of the poles. Researchers filled the tank with a water-glycerol mixture and recorded how their artificial atmosphere responded at different rotation rates.

The results show an energy spectrum that’s consistent with atmospheric observations–with a steep drop at large length scales and a flatter one at smaller scales. But interestingly, they also found that the cascade was temperature-dependent in ways that current models don’t predict. Untangling that effect could help us understand not only our atmosphere but those of other planets. (Image credit: tank – H. Scolan, animation – S. Ding et al.; research credit: S. Ding et al.; via APS)

Recreating Atmospheres

In planetary atmospheres, energy and vorticity can cascade from large scales to smaller ones, but the mechanics of this transfer remain somewhat elusive. In a recent experiment, researchers built a lab-scale representation of an atmosphere using a meter-scale rotating annular tank. The outer bottom edge of the tank gets heated–representing the sun’s warming at the equator–while a pipe in the center of the tank gets cooled near the tank surface, which mimics the chilling effect of the poles. Researchers filled the tank with a water-glycerol mixture and recorded how their artificial atmosphere responded at different rotation rates.

The results show an energy spectrum that’s consistent with atmospheric observations–with a steep drop at large length scales and a flatter one at smaller scales. But interestingly, they also found that the cascade was temperature-dependent in ways that current models don’t predict. Untangling that effect could help us understand not only our atmosphere but those of other planets. (Image credit: tank – H. Scolan, animation – S. Ding et al.; research credit: S. Ding et al.; via APS)

Experimental exposure to elevated CO2 demonstrates that understory trees in the Amazon initially increase their carbon uptake and growth, though this long-term capacity is ultimately constrained by soil nutrient availability.
#TerrestrialEcology #Biogeochemistry #AtmosphericScience #EnvironmentalGeoscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/eco04282601.html

Experimental exposure to elevated CO2 demonstrates that understory trees in the Amazon initially increase their carbon uptake and growth, though this long-term capacity is ultimately constrained by soil nutrient availability.
#TerrestrialEcology #Biogeochemistry #AtmosphericScience #EnvironmentalGeoscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/eco04282601.html

Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses

#Atmosphere #Atmosphericscience #Bacteria/archaea #BiologicalClassification #Cleanroom #Clouds #Cyanobacteria(bluegreenAlgae) #EarthScience

⏩ 2 new pictures and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=10&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260423125546

Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses

#Atmosphere #Atmosphericscience #Bacteria/archaea #BiologicalClassification #Cleanroom #Clouds #Cyanobacteria(bluegreenAlgae) #EarthScience

⏩ 2 new pictures and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=10&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260423125546

Powerful Typhoon Sinlaku strikes the Northern Marianas 🌑🚀🧑‍🚀

#Artemis #Atmosphere #AtmosphericPhenomena #Atmosphericscience #EarthScience #Hydrology #Location #Moon

⏩ 1 new picture and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=5&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260417125647

Powerful Typhoon Sinlaku strikes the Northern Marianas 🌑🚀🧑‍🚀

#Artemis #Atmosphere #AtmosphericPhenomena #Atmosphericscience #EarthScience #Hydrology #Location #Moon

⏩ 1 new picture and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=5&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260417125647

Persistent emissions of ozone-depleting feedstock chemicals, which are currently permitted as industrial raw materials, are projected to delay the complete recovery of the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer by approximately seven years.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04162602.html

Persistent emissions of ozone-depleting feedstock chemicals, which are currently permitted as industrial raw materials, are projected to delay the complete recovery of the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer by approximately seven years.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04162602.html

Corona discharges are miniature pulses of electricity that occur at the highest tips of tree leaves during thunderstorms, generating a faint glow in both the visible and ultraviolet (UV) spectrums.
#Meteorology #AtmosphericScience #AtmosphericChemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04162601.html

Corona discharges are miniature pulses of electricity that occur at the highest tips of tree leaves during thunderstorms, generating a faint glow in both the visible and ultraviolet (UV) spectrums.
#Meteorology #AtmosphericScience #AtmosphericChemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04162601.html

Rapid ocean warming is causing North Atlantic tropical cyclones to move slower and produce significantly more intense, longer-lasting rainfall.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04102601.html

Rapid ocean warming is causing North Atlantic tropical cyclones to move slower and produce significantly more intense, longer-lasting rainfall.
#AtmosphericScience #Climatology #ClimateChange #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/as04102601.html

Aerobiology is the scientific study of airborne biological particles, focusing on their emission, transport, and deposition in the atmosphere, as well as their interactions with the environment and human health.
#Aerobiology #Biology #Meteorology #AtmosphericScience #PublicHealth
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/cat04062601.html

Aerobiology is the scientific study of airborne biological particles, focusing on their emission, transport, and deposition in the atmosphere, as well as their interactions with the environment and human health.
#Aerobiology #Biology #Meteorology #AtmosphericScience #PublicHealth
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/cat04062601.html

The Amazon Rainforest is undeniably a vital ecosystem, essential for maintaining terrestrial biodiversity, producing regional rainfall, and housing uncounted species. However, the grandiose title of "Lungs of the Earth" rests securely and unequivocally beneath the waves.
#WhatIs #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Biochemistry #AtmosphericScience #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/wi04012601.html

The Amazon Rainforest is undeniably a vital ecosystem, essential for maintaining terrestrial biodiversity, producing regional rainfall, and housing uncounted species. However, the grandiose title of "Lungs of the Earth" rests securely and unequivocally beneath the waves.
#WhatIs #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Biochemistry #AtmosphericScience #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/wi04012601.html

Explaining the Swirl of Wildfire Smoke

In recent years, smoke from powerful wildfires has raised questions among atmospheric scientists by always swirling in the same direction. The confounding structures were observed in the stratosphere, where smoke injected at around 15 kilometers in altitude absorbed sunlight and rose further, up to about 35 kilometers of altitude. The rising column of fluid would stretch, causing any residual rotation to get stronger and form vortices.

None of this was a surprise. What was surprising is that all of the observed vortices were anticyclones, when theory–at least for a heat-driven vortex from a stationary heating source–called for a cyclone-anticyclone pair.

Researchers looked at how a self-heating (and, therefore, moving) source would rotate. They concluded that this, too, would create a pair of vortices–one cyclonic and one anticyclonic–but the anticyclone would be stronger than the cyclone that trailed behind it. By further considering the vertical shear the vortex pair would encounter, the researchers found that the trailing cyclone could get stripped away, leaving behind only the anticyclone–matching our wildfire observations. (Image credit: J. Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory; research credit: K. Shah and P. Haynes 1, 2; via APS)

Explaining the Swirl of Wildfire Smoke

In recent years, smoke from powerful wildfires has raised questions among atmospheric scientists by always swirling in the same direction. The confounding structures were observed in the stratosphere, where smoke injected at around 15 kilometers in altitude absorbed sunlight and rose further, up to about 35 kilometers of altitude. The rising column of fluid would stretch, causing any residual rotation to get stronger and form vortices.

None of this was a surprise. What was surprising is that all of the observed vortices were anticyclones, when theory–at least for a heat-driven vortex from a stationary heating source–called for a cyclone-anticyclone pair.

Researchers looked at how a self-heating (and, therefore, moving) source would rotate. They concluded that this, too, would create a pair of vortices–one cyclonic and one anticyclonic–but the anticyclone would be stronger than the cyclone that trailed behind it. By further considering the vertical shear the vortex pair would encounter, the researchers found that the trailing cyclone could get stripped away, leaving behind only the anticyclone–matching our wildfire observations. (Image credit: J. Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory; research credit: K. Shah and P. Haynes 1, 2; via APS)

Explaining the Swirl of Wildfire Smoke

In recent years, smoke from powerful wildfires has raised questions among atmospheric scientists by always swirling in the same direction. The confounding structures were observed in the stratosphere, where smoke injected at around 15 kilometers in altitude absorbed sunlight and rose further, up to about 35 kilometers of altitude. The rising column of fluid would stretch, causing any residual rotation to get stronger and form vortices.

None of this was a surprise. What was surprising is that all of the observed vortices were anticyclones, when theory–at least for a heat-driven vortex from a stationary heating source–called for a cyclone-anticyclone pair.

Researchers looked at how a self-heating (and, therefore, moving) source would rotate. They concluded that this, too, would create a pair of vortices–one cyclonic and one anticyclonic–but the anticyclone would be stronger than the cyclone that trailed behind it. By further considering the vertical shear the vortex pair would encounter, the researchers found that the trailing cyclone could get stripped away, leaving behind only the anticyclone–matching our wildfire observations. (Image credit: J. Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory; research credit: K. Shah and P. Haynes 1, 2; via APS)

Explaining the Swirl of Wildfire Smoke

In recent years, smoke from powerful wildfires has raised questions among atmospheric scientists by always swirling in the same direction. The confounding structures were observed in the stratosphere, where smoke injected at around 15 kilometers in altitude absorbed sunlight and rose further, up to about 35 kilometers of altitude. The rising column of fluid would stretch, causing any residual rotation to get stronger and form vortices.

None of this was a surprise. What was surprising is that all of the observed vortices were anticyclones, when theory–at least for a heat-driven vortex from a stationary heating source–called for a cyclone-anticyclone pair.

Researchers looked at how a self-heating (and, therefore, moving) source would rotate. They concluded that this, too, would create a pair of vortices–one cyclonic and one anticyclonic–but the anticyclone would be stronger than the cyclone that trailed behind it. By further considering the vertical shear the vortex pair would encounter, the researchers found that the trailing cyclone could get stripped away, leaving behind only the anticyclone–matching our wildfire observations. (Image credit: J. Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory; research credit: K. Shah and P. Haynes 1, 2; via APS)

Explaining the Swirl of Wildfire Smoke

In recent years, smoke from powerful wildfires has raised questions among atmospheric scientists by always swirling in the same direction. The confounding structures were observed in the stratosphere, where smoke injected at around 15 kilometers in altitude absorbed sunlight and rose further, up to about 35 kilometers of altitude. The rising column of fluid would stretch, causing any residual rotation to get stronger and form vortices.

None of this was a surprise. What was surprising is that all of the observed vortices were anticyclones, when theory–at least for a heat-driven vortex from a stationary heating source–called for a cyclone-anticyclone pair.

Researchers looked at how a self-heating (and, therefore, moving) source would rotate. They concluded that this, too, would create a pair of vortices–one cyclonic and one anticyclonic–but the anticyclone would be stronger than the cyclone that trailed behind it. By further considering the vertical shear the vortex pair would encounter, the researchers found that the trailing cyclone could get stripped away, leaving behind only the anticyclone–matching our wildfire observations. (Image credit: J. Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory; research credit: K. Shah and P. Haynes 1, 2; via APS)

🧊 Since 2020, the total ice mass in #Antarctica has stopped decreasing. How?

Researchers from the UG & KNMI found that a sharp increase in snowfall is mainly due to ‘atmospheric rivers’ transporting extra moist air to the ice sheet.🌨️

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/2026/more-ice-in-antarctica-due-to-increased-snowfall

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #environmental #research #atmospheric #science #meteorology #atmosphericscience #oceanography #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen @knmi