Sentences with phrase «climatology project»

Abbreviations AMO — Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation CO2 — Carbon Dioxide ENSO — El Niño Southern Oscillation GCR — Galactic Cosmic Ray IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IR — Infra - Red radiation ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ITO — Into The Ocean [Band of Wavelengths approx 200nm to 1000nm] PDO — Pacific Decadal Oscillation RF — Radiative Forcing SORCE — Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment SST — Sea Surface Temperature SW — Short Wave Wm - 2 or W / m2 — Watts per square metre WUWT — wattsupwiththat.com

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) values (Huffman et al. 2009) are considered most reliable for precipitation (Trenberth et al. 2007b), while results from CloudSat (e.g., Stephens and Haynes 2007) may help improve on these, with prospects mainly for increases in precipitation owing to undersampling low warm clouds.

Two systematic calibrations have been compiled for the visible radiances measured by the series of AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAA operational polar weather satellites: one by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, anchored on NASA ER - 2 under - flights in the 1980s and early 1990s and covering the period 1981 - 2009, and one by the PATMOS - x project, anchored on comparisons to the MODIS instruments on the AQUA and TERRA satellites in the 2000s and covering the period 1979 - 2010 (this result also includes calibration for the near - IR channels).

Data on how many and how thick clouds were, and cloud top pressure and temperature, came from NASA's International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP).

The version - 2 global precipitation climatology project (GPCP) monthly precipitation analysis (1979 - present).

In a recent article entitled «Can the Earth's Albedo and Surface Temperatures Increase Together,» that appeared in EOS, Enric Palle and co-authors use recently released cloud data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) to explain how it is possible for the Earth to be warming even as it's albedo is increasing.

The most notable satellite - based cloud dataset is the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)(Rossow & Schiffer 1991).

Using cloud cover data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and neutron monitors, they report that total cloud cover over the mid-latitude oceans exhibits a positive correlation with GCRs.

Earlier satellite data (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP - FD NASA) shows a substantial step increase in cloud at the turn of the century.

Bishop, J.K.B., W.B. Rossow, and E.G. Dutton, 1997: Surface solar irradiance from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project 1983 - 1991.

GHCN was a historical climatology project of the 1990's.

The changes in both satellite derived and measured surface insolation data are also in line with changes in global cloudiness provided by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), which show an increase until the late 1980s and a decrease thereafter, on the order of 5 % from the late 1980s to 2002.

The primary product of the Global Aerosol Climatology Project (GACP) is a continuous record of the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) over the oceans.

Arctic Climatology Project.

To see if that was the case, Tselioudis and his colleagues analyzed the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data set, which combines cloud data from operational weather satellites, including those run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to provide a 30 - year record of detailed cloud observations.

Palle and Laken 2013 combined two different sources of satellite — the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS ¬)-- ¬ data to provide a record of cloud cover.

With this final correction, the ERBS Nonscanner - observed decadal changes in tropical mean LW, SW, and net radiation between the 1980s and the 1990s now stand at 0.7, -2.1, and 1.4 W m ^ 2, respectively, which are similar to the observed decadal changes in the High - Resolution Infrared Radiometer Sounder (HIRS) Pathfinder OLR and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) version FD record but disagree with the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder ERB record.

Marsh, Nigel, Galactic cosmic ray and El Niño — Southern Oscillation trends in International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project D2 low - cloud properties, J. Geophysical Research, V. 108, No.

Also used are version 15.0 of the 0.25 ° resolution E-OBS dataset for Europe (available up to December 2016), the 2.5 ° resolution Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) dataset as was available up to March 2017 (with interim data from September 2016) when downloaded in May 2017, and the 0.25 ° resolution NASA TMPA / 3B43 dataset for the 50 ° N to 50 ° S band that covered from 1998 to December 2016 when downloaded.

Data source: The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP).

The program also involves the application of satellite simulator software (COSP simulator package) that creates model output compatible with the retrievals of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) as well as CloudSat, CALIPSO, MODIS, and other satellite instruments.

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP - FD)-- NASA — 2014.

Adapted from Climate4You, http://www.climate4you.com/, data from International Cloud Climatology Project 36.

Consistency between EECRA upper - level cloud cover anomalies and those from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) during 1984 — 1997 suggests the surface - observed trends are real.

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The operational data - collection phase of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) began in July 1983 as an element of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP).

In this case, check out the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, ISCCP.

Using monthly - averaged global satellite records from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP [5]-RRB- and the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) in conjunction with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) extended and reconstructed SST (ERSST) dataset [7] we have examined the reliability of long - term cloud measurements.

«The global mean latent heat flux is required to exceed 80 W m — 2 to close the surface energy balance in Figure 2.11, and comes close to the 85 W m — 2 considered as upper limit by Trenberth and Fasullo (2012b) in view of current uncertainties in precipitation retrieval in the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP, Adler et al., 2012)(the latent heat flux corresponds to the energy equivalent of evaporation, which globally equals precipitation; thus its magnitude may be constrained by global precipitation estimates).

Other studies analyzing satellite data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) such as Chang and Coakley (2007) and Eitzen et al. (2008) have indicated that cloud optical depth of low marine clouds might be expected to decrease with increasing temperature.

Data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations, and the National Weather Service reveal another, more fundamental impediment: November skies suddenly turn cloudy.

To check that result, they extended their analysis back to 1980, using data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project for the earlier years.

The UC San Diego study analyzed age - adjusted incidence rates of leukemia in 172 countries from GLOBOCAN, an international agency for research on cancer that is part of the World Health Organization, comparing that information with cloud cover data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project.

Not exact matches

Steffen, Konrad Konrad Steffen is Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Professor of Climatology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, and the Chair of the World Climate Research Programme's Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project.

Table 3 RGGI 30 % Emission Reduction Temperature Savings compares the projected temperature savings to the temperature climatology of Syracuse, NY.

Other initiatives include the CARPATCLIM project, which produces a high - resolution gridded climatology for the Carpathian region, and the production of information that governments can use to prepare documents for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or for impact studies.

Since than much more work was done (Vukcevic), snippets of which are all over the internet, some of it is condensed in the latest article published Sep 2012 (copies forwarded to Dr. J. Curry - Gtec, Dr. L. Svalgaard — Stanford, Dr. R.J.Brown — Duke Univ., S.Mosher (BEST project) and T. Brown — climatology historian.

Since than much more work was done (Vukcevic), snippets of which are all over the internet, some of it is condensed in the latest article published Sep 2012 (copies forwarded to Dr. J.C. Curry - Gtec, Dr. Leif Svalgaard — Stanford, Dr. R.J.Brown — Duke Univ., Steven Mosher (BEST project) and T. Brown — climatology historian.

If there is one thing that the climatology community are not like it is the scientists who worked on the Manhattan project.

To believe that Mann is right, you have to believe that the developer of the first satellite global temperature record, and the winner of the International Meetings on Statistical Climatology achievement award, and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, and the co-editor of Forecast Verification: A Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science, and the co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, and a member of the UN Secretary - General's High Level Group on Sustainable Energy, and the Professor of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute of Berlin Free University, and the Professor of Climate and Culture at King's College, London, and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and the former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, and the director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, and three professors at the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, and the scientist at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term «global warming», and dozens more are all wrong, every single one of them.

The daily min / max differentials would be very large... ============ end quote ============ Are there any projects planned or in the pipeline to do basic climatology studies on Mars?

The relative percentage of different station siting ratings in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network stations that have been rated by the Surface Stations project.

The results of the volunteer - run Surface Stations project have revealed that about 70 % of the stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network are poorly or badly sited.

Until a systematic assessment like the Surface Stations project is carried out for the Global Historical Climatology Network, we can't know for sure.

A recent voluntary project, called the Surface Stations project, led by the meteorologist and blogger, Anthony Watts, has found that about 70 % of the weather stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network are currently sited in locations with artificial heating sources less than 10 metres from the thermometer, e.g., buildings, concrete surfaces, air conditioning units.

We will introduce and familiarize users with the development of a repository for station - based climate data in the province, the production of high resolution maps of temperature and precipitation climatology, and additional projects describing extreme precipitation and regional climate anomalies.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

In the paper «Fall et al, 2011», results from the «Surface Stations Project», surveying the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) were presented, using a siting classification system developed by Michel Leroy for Meteofrance in 1999 — the same system employed by NOAA to develop the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) in 2002.

Werner, A.T. and T.Q. Murdock, 2008: Summary Report: Changes in Past Hydro - climatology and Projected Future Change for the City of Whitehorse, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report, 23 pp.

«That is the Holy Grail of climatology,» said Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the ESSC, a former NASA scientist and Christy's partner in the satellite thermometer project for more than 20 years.