Earth and atmospheric sciences

Hurricane Ivan pounds the Gulf of Mexico in 2004.

Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming

July 31, 2005

Using the new Earth System Modeling Framework, researchers coupled an atmosphere model and an ocean model that had not interacted before. This image depicts the sea surface temperature after five iterations of the simulation. The collaborators on this field test are MIT and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Scientists give boost to climate change predictions

July 28, 2005

Freshman Lissa Riley, who traveled to the Galapagos Islands as part of MIT's Terrascope program, works on a knot displayed in the lobby of Building 13 as a metaphor for the complexity of pleasing all of the stakeholders in the Galapagos, from residents to tourists and from the government to the ecosystem.

Freshmen exhibit Galapagos lessons

May 17, 2005

New fault found in Himalayas

May 11, 2005

Geologists' find is evolutionary

April 13, 2005

A model of the way the tsunami may have contaminated coastal wells: tsunami waves brought seawater to inland areas where it pooled for several days, before migrating back toward the coast with groundwater flow.

Letters from Sri Lanka

February 18, 2005

Tsunami's impact on well water a concern for MIT

February 14, 2005

Meteorologist thrills to the hazards of blizzards

February 2, 2005

Tropical seesaw: A flooded Amazon means drought in the Congo

January 31, 2005

Predicting the next blizzard

January 25, 2005

Symposium examines evolution of Earth system

March 17, 2004

The class does some climbing at California's Fossil Falls, the remains of a waterfall carved by the Owens River thousands of years ago. Students found obsidian chips and places in the rock where women once ground grain at a Native American settlement on the river bank.

Students dig rock and road on IAP trip

February 4, 2004

Students scale the heights on rock-and-road trip

January 30, 2004

The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Satellite to gather new data on climate

January 14, 2004

This image from Jan. 10 shows the observed temperature (violet is the coldest) and storm circulation (white lines) in the lower troposphere. At this time of year, the coldest air is normally a solid block close to the North Pole, but last Saturday, the cold pool was split into two pieces by warmer air over Alaska with the coldest air displaced southward.

California casts the big chill