Press Releases & Feature Stories Archive - Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory

Tracking Smoke From Fires to Improve Air Quality Forecasting

07.22.2019

NASA and NOAA kicked off a months-long airborne investigation into the life cycles of smoke from fires in the United States for improved forecasting and for better understanding their impact on weather and climate.

Barbara (Eastern Pacific Ocean)

07.01.2019

Tropical Storm Barbara formed on Sunday, June 30 in the Eastern Pacific Ocean over 800 miles from the coast of western Mexico.

NASA Scientist to Discuss “Hurricane Hunting NASA Style” at Library of Congress Lecture

06.06.2019

The public is invited to a free lecture called ‘Hurricane Hunting NASA Style on June 13

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

04.29.2019

On May 1, 1959, the Beltsville Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was renamed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert H. Goddard, widely considered the father of modern rocketry. Thus began a 60-year boom in science and technological innovation.

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Social Media, Public Events

04.18.2019

This Earth Day, April 22, NASA invites you to celebrate our beautiful home planet by participating in a global social media event and local events around the country.

Picture Earth for Earth Day 2019

04.12.2019

For Earth Day 2019, NASA invites you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth social media event.

NASA Sees El Niño Conditions Prevail in the Central Pacific Ocean

04.11.2019

An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an El Niño affect the atmosphere, resulting in distinctive changes in the rainfall pattern across the Pacific Basin. These changes show up as anomalies or deviations in NASA’s analysis

NASA Invites Media to 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.15.2019

Media are invited to the 57th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium on March 20-21.

On its 5th Anniversary, GPM Still Right as Rain

02.27.2019

Five years ago, on Feb. 27, 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint satellite project by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), lifted off aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket.

New NASA Book Shares Beauty of Earth from Space

02.20.2019

NASA’s new 168-page book “Earth,” a collection of dramatic images captured by Earth-observing satellites, is available now in hardcover and ebook, and online with interactive features.

Ian Adams Looks at Clouds From Both Sides

12.18.2018

Ian Adams looks at clouds from both sides.

Kenanga (Southern Indian Ocean)

12.17.2018

NASA’s GPM core observatory satellite and NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured rainfall and temperature data on Tropical Cyclone Kenanga.

NASA's IMERG Measures Heavy Rainfall in California Wildfire Areas

12.04.2018

Heavy precipitation recently fell in areas of California that were recently devastated by deadly wildfires such as the Camp Fire and the Woolsey fire.

Owen (Southern Pacific Ocean)

12.03.2018

Tropical Cyclone Owen formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean’s Coral Sea southwest of the Solomon Islands when the GPM core observatory satellite passed above and analyzed its rainfall.

Man-yi (Northwestern Pacific Ocean )

11.20.2018

Tropical depression Man-yi formed in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA captured an image of the storm.

33W (Northwestern Pacific Ocean)

11.19.2018

The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite is providing data on rain rates within Tropical Cyclone 33W as it moves over the Philippines on Nov. 19.

Italy's Extreme Rainfall Examined by NASA's IMERG

11.05.2018

Last week a strong low-pressure system moving through southern Europe battered, drenched and flooded Italy.

NASA Brings its Science and Supercomputing Advances to SC18

11.05.2018

From designing rocket launch pad components and safer rotorcraft to improving flood and drought forecasts to modeling the formation of planetary disks, NASA will highlight supercomputing advances at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 12 to 15 in Dallas.