The program is operated by the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and includes a multi-university collaboration. Texas A&M meteorology students will help NOAA collect important atmospheric sciences data, which includes studying the origins of rotation in tornadoes. (College of Geosciences) For the next six months, when severe weather strikes at universities across the Southeast United States, meteorology students will be helping NOAA collect important atmospheric…
On July 16, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image of a river of Saharan dust streaming out over the Mediterranean Sea and northeastward to Italy. (NASA) By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications The bad news: Dust from the Sahara Desert…
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications It doesn’t take a hurricane to cause problems from a storm, and many residents along the Gulf Coast may be about to find that out the hard way. Tropical Storm Cindy, formed just a few days ago, is expected…