Sentences with phrase «earth system data»

Designed for use in the high school classroom, this curriculum uses Earth system data, models, and resources from five NASA missions (Aqua, Aura, ICESat, Landsat, and Terra) to engage students in a systems approach to climate change.

In addition to historical records and ground observations, the researchers will use newly available Earth System Data Records from NASA — satellite images of the Amazon and its tributaries over the complete high - and low - water cycles.

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The newly discovered exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth's solar system, were found after researchers applied the same AI techniques that help computers recognize images like cats in photos to data gathered from the Kepler space telescope.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

In Non-Faith Based belief systems, the belief is based on experiences, information, facts, and data (ie, not faith) I believe that rain falls down to the earth because I've seen it happen every time it rains.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

The Hydrology and Earth System Sciences study highlights the need to carefully interpret dripwater cave data, and to also look into changes in its trace metals, as opposed to only δ18O, when analysing it.

Some astronomers are questioning the existence of what might be the most Earth - like planet yet found outside the solar system, based on a reexamination of archival data.

A paper about the work was published in the journal Earth System Science Data.

The following Berkeley Lab researchers also contributed to the study: Benjamin Bowen, a member of Northen's lab in EGSB and at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, helped analyze metabolomics data; Ulas Karaoz in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) analyzed metagenomics data; and Joel Swenson, a former postdoctoral researcher in Biosciences» Biological Systems and Engineering Division, helped conduct correlation and statistical analyses.

Answers to that question and others may come once additional data has been collected from two Earth Observing System (EOS) spacecraft, which should extend this continuous SeaWiFS record.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

Disbursing the U.S. government's sprawling Earth data stockpile is the aim of the federal Global Change Data and Information Sysdata stockpile is the aim of the federal Global Change Data and Information SysData and Information System.

Fresh geological data extracted from the Great Barrier Reef suggest that Earth's largest coral system is remarkably youthful.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satellites.

NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long - term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing.

«The highly accurate and precise data from Glory, in combination with observations from the rest of the A-Train, will enable researchers to improve our understanding of the Earth system by improving our ability predict future climate,» she said.

A system called OPALS will test whether lasers can be used to carry data from space to Earth.

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

An Earth - based early alert system, based on particle data, might give less warning but be significantly more accurate.

Researchers are using satellite data to accurately map the movement of the earth before a landslide in a bid to develop a life - saving early warning system.

The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.

The study, conducted by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego, uses data from the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, instrument.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.

They then looked at another source of data: that of the Clouds» and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite instruments which measure fluxes of reflected and emitted radiation from Earth to space, to help scientists understand how the climate varies over time.

The satellite systems that would be sold abroad would also have a drastically reduced ability to transmit data back to Earth, say company executives.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

A new integrated computational climate model developed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions marks the first successful attempt to bridge Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

But the data don't yet conclusively show HAT - P - 26b developed differently than the ice giants in Earth's solar system, he says.

The agency develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long - term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

The findings, which have just been published in three separate scientific journals — Earth System Science Data, Environmental Research Letters and Nature Climate Change — will also be presented today at the U.N. climate conference in Bonn, Germany.

Writing today (Feb. 23, 2014) in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin - Madison geoscience Professor John Valley reveals data that confirm the Earth's crust first formed at least 4.4 billion years ago, just 160 million years after the formation of our solar system.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

A cross-cutting strength of ESSC scientists is the application of remote sensing data, both space and ground - based, to the myriad of questions related to the Earth System.

Co-author Dr Gavin Foster, a Reader in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, who is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), explains: «Geological data showed that sea level would likely rise by nine metres or more as the climate system adjusts to today's greenhouse effect.

Because elements of this system are poorly understood and poorly represented in global climate models, collecting real - time, complementary data from a variety of areas will go a long way toward improving scientists ability to use these models for making accurate predictions about Earths climate.

B612 will use data from the space telescope and observatories on Earth to identify potential threats in our neck of the solar system, hopefully decades before those threats become imminent.

Along with the article in Nature Climate Change, detailed data were made available simultaneously in the journal Earth System Science Ddata were made available simultaneously in the journal Earth System Science DataData.

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.

Hosted as part of the US Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center (USAP - DCC) by Marine Geoscience Data System at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

Future ocean projections for the year 2100 were compiled from all available data generated by Earth Systems Models as part of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Taylor et al., 2012) as in Mora et al. (2013).

Sponsor: This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Earth System Modeling program, and used data from the ARM Climate Research Facility.

Dr. Carlson is currently serving as Chief Editor for Earth System Science Data, a journal he founded with Dr. Han Pfeiffenberger.»

By combining observational data from OGLE and Hubble, astronomers have been able to work out the nature of the star system, which is located around 8,000 light - years away, to great precision The star system consists of two red dwarfs orbiting one another only 7 million miles apart (as a comparison, this is only 14 times the Earth - moon distance).