Tag: Precipitation

Toshihisa Matsui was the Goddard Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar speaker on March 13, 2013 with a seminar entitled “Observed and Simulated High-Resolution Summertime Diurnal Rainfall Rates Over the Conterminous U.S.”…

By: Robert Adler

With increasing observation and modelling capacity, scientists are now able to produce relevant information on flood disasters more rapidly and with sufficient accuracy and precision for a variety of humanitarian response tasks.  Several research groups across the world have set-up pre-operational or operational monitoring systems as an outcome of their research.

Since floods are complex phenomena that affect societies in many different ways, there is not one system that can completely meet

In tonight's presidential debate, republican candidate Mitt Romney has room to attack and to fail on the issue of climate change against President Barack Obama.

So far, both candidates have kept their positions on the climate and our nation's effect on global warming rather silent during the election season. However, as the first national debate kicks off tonight, republican strategists are predicting Romney may take the stance that the Earth is warming due to human activity and deny his links