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Polar Vortex Enters Northern U.S. The polar vortex is a whirling and persistent large area of low pressure, found typically over both North and South poles. The northern polar vortex was pushing southward over western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota on Monday, Jan.
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Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) are expecting G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm conditions to occur on Earth Jan. 9 and 10. The source of this pulse to the geomagnetic field is an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a burst of charged particles
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LAGO ENRIQUILLO, Dominican Republic — Steadily, mysteriously, like in an especially slow science fiction movie, the largest lake in the Caribbean has been rising and rising, devouring tens of thousands of acres of farmland, ranches and whatever else stands in its way.
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By Carolyn Gramling, via Washingtom Post While 2012 was a rough year around the globe, it wasn’t because of the Planet X/Mayan calendar doomsday reasons people feared. Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United
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In the hot and humid last days of August, a group of NOAA-CREST students cruised the Chesapeake Bay to analyze water and air quality. Undergraduate students Lena Lai and Kaveh Bastani, graduate students Robert Foster, Amir Ibrahim, Carlos Carrizo and Ahmed el
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Dr. Z. Johnny Luo, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and NOAA CREST Institute at The City College of New York, is one of 12 lead scientists on a NASA airborne mission to study how convective clouds
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Hansong Tang, an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering and member of CREST at City College, was selected for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions. Dr. Tang and Master’s student, Hang Li, will spend the
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