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Low-Level Volcanic Activity Impacts Clouds
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Published January 31, 2008
It is not difficult to imagine that a gigantic volcanic eruption spewing thick clouds of ash and gas high into the atmosphere would change the weather. But these satellite images show that a small, steady, simmering eruption also affects the atmosphere.
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Cyclone Gene
Published January 30, 2008
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Heavy Snow in China
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Dust Storm off Western Sahara
Published January 29, 2008
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Dust storm in northern Texas
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Unusually Intense Rain Floods Southern Africa
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Heavier-than-normal rainfall in January 2008 brought flooding to parts of southern Africa. The hardest hit areas included Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique.
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Intense Seasonal Floods in Southern Africa
Published January 28, 2008
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Port of Suez, Egypt
The Port of Suez is located in Egypt along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Suez. The port and city mark the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, which runs north-south through Egypt from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez.
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Retreat of the Tasman Glacier
Published January 27, 2008
NIWA scientists stated that this glacier had retreated by 5 kilometers (about 3 miles) over the previous three decades. They also stated that New Zealand glaciers on the whole had lost 5.8 cubic kilometers (roughly 1.4 cubic miles) over the same time period.
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Ship Tracks off British Columbia
Published January 26, 2008
They may look like airplane contrails, but the streaky clouds shown in this photo-like image formed around the exhaust left in the wake of ships traveling along the northwest coast of North America.
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Published January 25, 2008
Saharan dust hovered over the Atlantic for several days in mid-January 2008. This image shows two different areas of dust plume activity. Immediately off the coasts of Western Sahara and Mauritania, a series of tan dust plumes blow in predominantly straight lines toward the northwest. Farther west, a large, diffuse plume of dust hangs over the Atlantic Ocean
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Global Temperature Anomalies: 2007
Published January 24, 2008
Despite that a moderately strong La Niña event put a chill on the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the Sun was near a low in its 11-year cycle of variability, global average surface temperature in 2007 was still tied for the second warmest year in the instrumental record.
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