And I Realized That There’s A Big Difference Between Deciding To Leave And Knowing Where To Go.

And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything (via wordsnquotes)

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9 years ago

So remember, if you feel really broken, take a hot shower and reflect. Reflect on anything and everything you need to reflect on.talk to yourself. No, it’s not dumb. Talk to yourself and remind yourself that right now is temporary and you will get through this. Things will get better. Believe. You went with your gut once, it didn’t fail you, right? So why not? Just trust your gut once again, it won’t let you down. It’ll never let you down. Go jump into some pixie dust! Never stop believing.

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9 years ago

Seeing El Niño…From Space

First, What is El Niño?

This irregularly occurring weather phenomenon is created through an abnormality in wind and ocean circulation. When it originates in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. El Niño has wide-reaching effects. In a global context, it affects rainfall, ocean productivity, atmospheric gases and winds across continents. At a local level, it influences water supplies, fishing industries and food sources.

What About This Year’s El Niño

This winter, weather patterns may be fairly different than what is typical — all because of unusually warm ocean water in the east equatorial Pacific, aka El Niño. California is expected to get more rain while Australia is expected to get less. Since this El Niño began last summer, the Pacific Ocean has already experienced an increase in tropical storms and a decrease in phytoplankton.

How Do We See El Niño?

Here are some of El Niño’s key impacts and how we study them from space:

Rainfall: 

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El Niño often spurs a change in rainfall patterns that can lead to major flooding, landslides and droughts across the globe.

How We Study It: Our Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM), tracks precipitation worldwide and creates global precipitation maps updated every half-hour using data from a host of satellites. Scientists can then use the data to study changes in rain and snow patterns. This gives us a better understanding of Earth’s climate and weather systems.

Hurricanes:

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El Niño also influences the formation of tropical storms. El Niño events are associated with fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic, but more hurricanes and typhoons in the Pacific.

How We Study It: We have a suite of instruments in space that can study various aspects of storms, such as rainfall activity, cloud heights, surface wind speed and ocean heat.

Ocean Ecology:

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While El Niño affects land, it also impacts the marine food web, which can be seen in the color of the ocean. The hue of the water is influenced by the presence of tiny plants, sediments and colored dissolved organic material. During El Niño conditions, upwelling is suppressed and the deep, nutrient-rich waters aren’t able to reach the surface, causing less phytoplankton productivity. With less food, the fish population declines, severely affecting fishing industries.

How We Study It: Our satellites measure the color of the ocean to derive surface chlorophyll, a pigment in phytoplankton, and observe lower total chlorophyll amounts during El Niño events in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Ozone:

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El Niño also influences ozone — a compound that plays an important role in the Earth system and human health. When El Niño occurs, there is a substantial change in the major east-west tropical circulation, causing a significant redistribution of atmospheric gases like ozone.

How We Study It: Our Aura satellite is used to measure ozone concentrations in the upper layer of the atmosphere. With more than a decade of Aura data, researchers are able to separate the response of ozone concentrations to an El Niño from its response to change sin human activity, such as manmade fires.

Fires:

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El Niño conditions shift patters of rainfall and fire across the tropics. During El Niño years, the number and intensity of fires increases, especially under drought conditions in regions accustomed to wet weather. These fires not only damage lands, but also emit greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.

How We Study It: Our MODIS instruments on Aqua and Terra satellites provide a global picture of fire activity. MODIS was specifically designed to observe fires, allowing scientists to discern flaming from smoldering burns.

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9 years ago

I hope you find someone that mindlessly strokes your legs and massages your back and plays with your hair and I hope that you feel like You’re home when you look at them.

(via itcuddles)

9 years ago

The 20 Most Stunning and Impressive Astronomy Photographs from 2015

The 20 Most Stunning And Impressive Astronomy Photographs From 2015

Astrophotography is an art and scientific method, which is continuously evolving. The technique is specifically used to capture and record images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky. The first image of our galaxy was taken into 1840. In 2015, there has been a stunning series of images, which redefined the meaning of beauty in our universe.

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9 years ago
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