After being away for four days, I’m finally returning home, uncertain about the condition of my house after Hurricane Ida ravaged my hometown. The aftermath…
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The (ocean) physics of The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001
The following is a guest post by Dr. Clark Richards, a physical oceanographer at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Canada. It was originally…
View More The (ocean) physics of The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001What actually happened in the sea during the solar eclipse!
Last week, we wrote a teaser on what would happen in the sea during the eclipse. But now the results are in and YES! CALAMITY…
View More What actually happened in the sea during the solar eclipse!Can you hear me, Major Tom?
“Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do” -Space…
View More Can you hear me, Major Tom?Big wave story is big
I imagine somewhere there is a cold-war era control room in a deep bunker where an alarm bell starts ringing every time a giant ocean wave…
View More Big wave story is bigThe Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science Edition
On the first day of Christmas NASA Earth Science gave to me: advance warning of Hurricane Activity. On the second day of Christmas NASA…
View More The Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science EditionWherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.
What did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary…
View More Wherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.Are the ocean and atmosphere finally cooperating and is El Niño really here? Probably.
El Niño has been playing with my heart for a whole year now*. It’s coming. It’s not coming. It’s gonna be huge. It’s not coming…
View More Are the ocean and atmosphere finally cooperating and is El Niño really here? Probably.The predictions of this model kills my love of models.
Few things give me greater joy than a model. No not those waifs that strut the fashion runways but mathematical models. Sure my pulse…
View More The predictions of this model kills my love of models.Tracking the cold wake of a super typhoon
I’ve been absolutely fascinated by 2 things recently: amazing images of typhoons and animated gifs. In regards to the former, check out this amazing 3D movie…
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