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Storm threat: Thursday update

Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) - Feb 16, 2012
Atmospheric physics aside, we point to a couple of cultural clues. For one thing, the National Weather Service now includes a 40 percent chance of rain and snow in the wording for its Saturday night-Sunday forecasts. For another, the American Weather ...

China's farming calendar 'out of step' with global warming

Reuters AlertNet - Feb 20, 2012
But Qian Cheng, a meteorologist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the study's principal investigator, told SciDev.Net the research "only provides a reference for farming from the perspective of ...

Climate scientists not cowed by relentless climate change deniers

PhysicsToday.org - Feb 1, 2012
Now climate scientists—in atmospheric physics and chemistry, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, among other disciplines—have begun to fight back. “I think the community is finding a voice,” says Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore ...

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ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS ● Dr. Frank Mulligan NUIM ● FOP 2010

Dr. Frank Mulligan, Dept. of Experimental Physics, NUIM, talks about atmospheric physics. FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS TEACHERS' CONFERENCE 2010 Date: 25th September 2010 Venue: Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Maynooth Camera: Marek Bogacki Produced by DOCUMENTAVI 2010

 

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Storm rolls in over Tucson on the Fourth of July 2011

This time-lapse video of clouds above the Catalina Mountains was captured from atop the Physics-Atmospheric Sciences Building on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. The storm produced 0.44" of rain at Tucson International Airport on July 4, 2011. Check out the University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Physics' daily cloud movies here — bit.ly

 

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Space shuttle Abort-to-Orbit during launch of Challenger on mission STS-51F

STS-51F was the 50th US manned spaceflight. Primary payload was Spacelab-2. Despite an abort to orbit, which required mission replanning, the mission was declared a success. A special part of the modular Spacelab system, the igloo, located at head of a three-pallet train, provided on-site support to instruments mounted on pallets. The main mission objective was to verify performance of Spacelab systems, determine the interface capability of the orbiter, and measure the environment created by the spacecraft. Experiments covered life sciences, plasma physics, astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, solar physics, atmospheric physics and technology research. A launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) coolant valve caused shutdown of all three main engines. Launch took place at 29 July 1985, 17:00 EDT, after a delay of one hour, 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink. Three minutes and 31 seconds into the ascent, one of two high pressure fuel turbopump turbine discharge temperature sensors for the center engine failed. Two minutes and 12 seconds later, the second sensor failed, causing the shutdown of the center engine. To date, this has been the only in-flight main engine failure of the shuttle program. Approximately 8 minutes into the flight, one of the same temperature sensors in the right engine failed and the ...

 

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TEDxUIUC - Donald Wuebbles - The Science of Climate Change

Don Wuebbles talks about the hard scientific truth behind climate change. Donald J. Wuebbles is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois. He was the first Director of the School of Earth, Society, and Environment at Illinois, and was Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences for many years. Dr. Wuebbles is an expert in numerical modeling of atmospheric physics and chemistry. He has authored over 400 scientific articles, relating mostly to atmospheric chemistry and climate issues. He received the 2005 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award from the US EPA, has been honored by being selected a Fellow of two major professional science societies, and shares in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. www.atmos.illinois.edu This talk was recorded at TEDxUIUC 2011 (02/19/11), which was organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by a group of students led by Cristian Mitreanu. www.tedxuiuc.com About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self ...

 

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Storm rolls in over the Catalina Mountains in Tucson

This time-lapse video of clouds above the Catalina Mountains was captured from atop the Physics-Atmospheric Sciences Building on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson between 1 pm and 2 pm on Aug. 18, 2011. Check out the University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Physics' daily cloud movies here — bit.ly