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Pacific Winds Tied to Warming Slowdown, Dry West
2015-04-13 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: To understand why the West has been so dry since the turn of the century, cast your eye further west -- to the natural waxing and waning of Pacific Ocean winds. Strong trade winds have been forcing heat into ocean depths, contributing to a temporary slowdown in land surface warming over the past 15 to 20 years that some have called a warming hiatus, pause or false pause. New research published in the Journal of Climate has gone further -- implicating those winds in stubborn droughts afflicting...
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NASA Covers Super Typhoon Maysak's Rainfall, Winds, Clouds, Eye
2015-04-02 04:41:21| rfglobalnet Home Page
NASA's fleet of satellites and instruments in space have covered Super Typhoon Maysak's rainfall, winds, clouds and an astronaut about the International Space Station captured a close-up photo of the storm's eye.
Power Climber Wind's IBEX Becomes Suzlon's Climb Assist of Choice
2015-03-12 11:31:11| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
SEATTLE Power Climber Wind, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, has completed the installation of over 700 IBEX Climb Assist Systems in Suzlon wind turbines, the fifth largest wind turbine OEM. Following extensive testing and qualification, Suzlon Wind Energy Corp. has selected the IBEX system as its climb assist of...
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Abertis acquires Wind's Italian tower asset for EUR 693 mln
2015-03-02 08:26:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Spanish infrastructure company Abertis has announced the acquisition of 90 percent of the shares of the mobile tower unit of Italian operator Wind for EUR 693 million. The Italian subsidiary of Russia's Vimpelcom will retain a ten percent stake in Galata, the unit it set up last month consisting of 7,377 towers plus employees and related contracts. Wind confirmed that the transaction is expected to close within the first quarter of 2015, and that proceeds from the sale will used by the operator to further reduce its debts. In addition, Wind will enter into a 15-year tower services agreement with Galata for the provision of a broad range of services on the mobile tower sites as well as on sites subsequently built by Galata hosting Wind equipment. Abertis outbid rival offers from Mediaset-controlled EI Towers, Italian investment fund F2i and American Tower to secure Wind's tower asset.
Quirky Winds Fuel Brazil's Devastating Drought, Amazon's Flooding
2015-02-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: In So Paulo, Brazil, which is suffering its worst drought in almost a century, Maria de Fátima dos Santos has lived for days at a time with no water, relying on what she had carefully hoarded in bottles. But in the Bolivian Amazon, about 1,800 miles (2,897 kilometers) away, Nicolás Cartagena recalls the day almost a year ago when floodwaters rose to the thatched rooftops of Indian communities, destroying crops and washing away homes. The drought in South America's biggest city and the flooding...
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