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Posts tagged ‘Atmospheric Administration’

Heartbeat of the earth (video)

June 26, 2012

the surface temperature of the sea

An astonishing animation created by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (GFDL), showing how the surface temperature of the sea varies across the world throughout the year.

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Massive tornado outbreak in the U.S. (video)

April 19, 2012

Massive tornado outbreak in the U.S.

On Saturday April 14, 2012 a single supercell thunderstorm produced numerous tornadoes across northern Oklahoma into southern Kansas.

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US, Russia to begin seal survey

April 13, 2012

US - NOAA, Russia to begin seal survey

Researchers from the NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Russia will begin the largest-ever survey of ice seals in the Bering Sea off Alaska’s west coast.

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NEEMO missions

October 25, 2011

NEEMONEEMO

NEEMO – the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations project – sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live in the Aquarius undersea research station for up to three weeks at a time. For NASA, Aquarius provides a convincing analog to space exploration, and NEEMO crewmembers experience some of the same tasks and challenges underwater as they would in space.

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