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Offshore turbines in the wind farm Nordsee Ost (North Sea East) near Helgoland, Germany.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Offshore Wind Turbines Can’t Yet Withstand Category 5 Hurricanes

by E. Underwood 8 August 201720 July 2022

A new study suggests that more robust turbine design is needed to weather high winds.

Researchers unravel how turbulence in storms can generate lightning
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Storm Turbulence Can Spark Lightning

by Mark Zastrow 6 July 201716 September 2022

The turbulent pockets of air inside storms can help to build up static electricity in the atmosphere, according to a new study.

Researchers examine images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover to see how Martian sand dunes form.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Curiosity Spies Shifting Sands on Mars

by Mark Zastrow 29 June 201728 July 2022

Images from the rover’s pioneering encounter with sand dunes on Mars constrain wind speeds required to move sand in the thin Martian atmosphere.

Researchers untangle how changes in wind direction influence tropical storms
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Shifting Winds Turn Tropical Storms into Hurricanes

by E. Underwood 27 June 201710 December 2022

Researchers present a novel method for analyzing how wind shear affects tropical cyclone strength and structure.

Researchers model waves to understand how wind drives mixing in lake waters
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Does Wind Push Water?

by E. Underwood 22 June 20174 February 2022

A new 3-D model shows how wind affects hydrodynamic mixing in a northern Italian lake.

Tethered lifting system, turbine, and flux tower taken during fieldwork for project with a broad aim of measuring wind energy over Europe.
Posted inScience Updates

Monitoring Wind in Portugal’s Mountains Down to Microscales

by H. J. S. Fernando, J. K. Lundquist and S. Oncley 31 May 20177 October 2021

Researchers are now gathered for the Perdigão field campaign, an effort to study wind flow physics at scales down to tens of meters. The effort should help engineers harness wind energy in Europe.

Clouds from a dust storm in Mars's atmosphere..
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mars's Atmosphere Matches Earth's Turbulent Nature

by Mark Zastrow 9 November 201616 September 2022

Mars is even more like Earth than we thought, according to a statistical analysis of the planet's swirling atmosphere.

The stratosphere, seen here as the blue region above the red-orange troposphere, sports a mysterious wind anomaly in its quasi-biennial oscillation, scientists say.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern

by Sarah Stanley 2 September 201629 March 2022

For the first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in the equatorial stratosphere.

A thermal infrared image of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption shows cooler temperatures at the top of the ash cloud.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Volcanic Eruptions Stir an Already Complex Atmosphere

by L. Crane 25 July 201617 November 2022

A study of Earth's atmospheric response to major volcanic eruptions seeks to reconcile contradictions between observations and climate models.

A cargo ship cruises past a Danish offshore wind farm.
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Interior Approves Wind Farm Leasing Offshore from New York City

by Randy Showstack 8 June 201612 January 2022

The proposed wind farm, which commercial fishermen oppose, could produce at least 70 megawatts of energy annually, enough to power a quarter of a million homes.

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