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Computer-Based Weather Forecasts Turn In Good Showing
May 22, 1998 — Can a computer program win a weather forecasting contest? Not yet, but a Penn State statistical weather forecasting program did beat the consensus forecast in the 1996-97 National Collegiate Weather ... > full story -
Duke Study Suggests Earthquakes Launched Ice-Age Iceberg Flotillas
May 19, 1998 — A Duke University geological study proposes a novel cause for the massive and puzzling swarms of icebergs believed to have separated, or "calved," from the Canadian ice sheet to roam the ... > full story -
New Tool To Enhance Weather Forecasters' Skills In Satellite Meteorology
May 13, 1998 — Four African meteorologists spent the past nine months at UCAR building a multimedia CD-ROM demonstrating best use of satellite data for improving weather forecasts in the tropics. Better forecasts, ... > full story -
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Interplanetary Dust May Cause Climate Change, Gradual Extinction
May 11, 1998 — Space dust in the earth's atmosphere and changes in the planet's orbit may have started the gradual extinction of dinosaurs and other life thousands of years before a massive asteroid ... > full story -
Help From The Sky When Lost At Sea
May 11, 1998 — If you're lost at sea, help may come from above -- from the NOAA-K Weather Satellite. The NOAA satellite launch is planned for May 13. The weather satellite will carry search and rescue ... > full story -
Global Seismic Network Now Extends To The Deep Oceans -- Ocean Drilling Program's New Technology To Open Exploration Of Earth's Interiors
May 4, 1998 — Scientists with the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) are now installing one of many planned Geophysical Ocean Bottom Observatories (GOBO), in which a permanent seismograph station will be established on ... > full story -
Extreme Droughts Played Major Role In Tragedies At Jamestown, "Lost Colony"
April 28, 1998 — The worst droughts of the past 800 years likely played a major role in the mysterious disappearance of Roanoke Island's "Lost Colony" and in the "starving time" endured by ... > full story -
Scientists Find Further Global Warming Evidence In Temperature Reconstruction Study
April 23, 1998 — National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded climatologists at the University of Massachusetts (U. Mass.) at Amherst have reconstructed global temperature over the past 600 years and determined that ... > full story -
MIT Researcher Finds Evidence Of Ancient Climate Swings
April 20, 1998 — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has discovered that for at least the last 1.5 million years, the Earth has undergone rapid and dramatic climate changes similar to those observed in ... > full story -
New Satellite Images Show Chunk Of Broken Antarctic Ice Shelf
April 17, 1998 — Recent satellite images collected by the University of Colorado at Boulder-based National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate a section of a large ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula has broken away. ... > full story -
New Sunspot Cycle To Be Bigger Than Average, NASA Scientists Predict
April 15, 1998 — The current sunspot cycle will be above average but no record setter, according to scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight ... > full story -
Arctic Ozone Hole, Responding To Greenhouse Gases, Will Worsen Through 2020, Columbia Team Finds
April 9, 1998 — An ozone hole in the Arctic is expected to grow larger as a result of greenhouse gas accumulation and should worsen through the year 2020 before recovering, according to a new study by a team of ... > full story
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