Sentences with phrase «earth system technology»

Emmanuel Boss (email: [email protected]-RRB-, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono; and Lorraine A. Remer, Joint Center for Earth System Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore

Dr Marco Tedesco, of NASA's Joint Centre for Earth Systems Technology, said melted and refrozen snow absorbed up to four times more energy from the sun than dry snow, creating a feedback loop that could accelerate melting.

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Earlier this year, the company unveiled Prospector X, a tiny robotic spacecraft that'll sit in low Earth orbit testing technologies for future asteroid prospecting missions, including water - powered propulsion and optical navigation systems.

«The Unify Earth ® platform was built to be optimized for all business and organizational models providing seamless systems integration in a manner that ideally accelerates the efficiency, efficacy and performance for both novel and legacy platforms,» explained Chief Technology Officer Scott Searle.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's oceans through the end of the 21st century.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

Climate engineering, an application of geoengineering, is the deliberate and large - scale intervention in Earth's climatic system with the aim of reducing global warmingClimate engineering has two categories of technologies - carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management.

The company has also been working on getting its transformative technologies into more immediate markets on Earth through the deployment of Ceres, an orbiting infrared and hyperspectral sensor system that aims to provide information to the oil, gas, and agriculture industries to better manage the natural resources on this planet.

«For the first time, space weather forecasters now have models and tools for predicting how a CME is released from the sun, accelerated out into the solar wind, and ultimately ends up colliding with Earth's magnetosphere creating the geomagnetic storms that impact so many technologies and systems,» says Rodney Viereck of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Environment Center.

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.

Geologist Hiroko Sugioka, then a chief scientist at the Japan Agency for Marine — Earth Science Technology (JAMSTEC), realized that a mobile system stationed near fault lines or smoldering volcanoes could be simpler and cheaper than a permanent observatory.

What role does it play in spewing large streams of charged particles, known as coronal mass ejections, which strike Earth's atmosphere and can disrupt GPS systems and other sensitive technologies?

These concepts includes matter, forces and interactions, energy, and waves in the physical sciences; structures, ecosystems, heredity, and evolution in the life sciences; Earth's place in the universe, earth system, and Earth and human activity in the Earth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineeEarth's place in the universe, earth system, and Earth and human activity in the Earth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineeearth system, and Earth and human activity in the Earth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineeEarth and human activity in the Earth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineeEarth and space sciences; and engineering design and its links to technology and society in engineering.

They will also use seismic and electromagnetic methods to determine the existence of a giant magma buildup, and in collaboration with the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology will carry out a large - scale underground survey, attempting to capture high - resolution visualizations of the magma system within the Earth's crust (at a depth of approximately 30 km).

«The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real - time detection system within MyShake,» said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.

The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the ocean and its physics, chemistry, and biology, which may result in breakthrough in earth system science.

The goal of the project is to develop an earth system model (ESM) that has not been possible because of limitations in current computing technologies.

The European Space Agency (ESA) w3 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, to develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

The use of renewable energy technologies, such as photovoltaic and wind power, is expected to result in an increased demand for both bulk metals (e.g., iron, copper) and specialty metals (e.g., rare earths) when compared to today's largely fossil - based systems [4], [5].

This month, a privately funded project called Breakthrough Initiatives announced that it is partnering with the European Southern Observatory to use similar vortex technology to find and image a putative Earth - like planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system.

In addition to planetary science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).

Achieving the interstellar journey in many ways must build upon, promote and establish fundamental research, technology development, societal systems and capacities that facilitate ready access to our inner solar system and which will leave an indelible mark upon life on earth.

The hearing before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee took place as a new presidential administration is taking shape and many space program advocates worry that decisions might be made that will disrupt the progress NASA has made since 2010 in building systems to take humans beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

Test and Evaluation of Biological Standoff Detection Systems — Abbreviated Version Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies (2008, 42 pp.; ISBN 0 -309-11443-8; available from NAP).

Thanks to recent breakthroughs, the technology now exists to capture a direct image of an Earth - like planet outside our Solar System.

The European Space Agency (ESA) w2 is Europe's gateway to space, organising programmes to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to co-operate in the human exploration of space, develop satellite - based technologies and services, and to promote European industries.

The consortium was founded by BoldlyGo Institute, Mission Centaur, the SETI Institute, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell and will be steered by a Science & Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) composed of experts immersed in the excitement and challenge of taking a picture of an Earth - like planet in another star system.

This technology would also benefit asteroid colonies as well, as it would enable settlements within the inner solar system to become less dependent upon Earth (or even Mars) for resources.

We encourage contributions on current and prospective observation technologies for GHGs, modeling studies to quantify budgets and / or uncertainties in GHG flux estimates, and evaluation and benchmarking of GHG estimates from Earth System Models using contemporary observations.

Long - term risks can arise from purely social causes (e.g., those associated with political or economic institutions, violence, and technology), but often arise from the interaction of humans with the Earth system (e.g., climate change; ozone depletion; resource depletion; pandemics; flood and seismic risk in areas subject to increasing development).

Set 20 years after the original, this sequel sees the nations of Earth use the alien technology to develop an advanced defense system for the planet.

Premise: Twenty years after the War of 1996, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system and the main defense force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon.

The Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference will be jointly hosted by the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU - IAS), the International Environmental Governance Architecture Research Group and the Tokyo Institute of Technology on behalf of the Earth System Governance Project.

Geocaching takes student groups through an Earth science adventure with the help of Global Positioning System receivers, and during a career panel, experts present via videoconferencing to share the use of technology in their daily work.

For example, having students tap into the various aspects of spatial intelligence with contemporary technology tools such as Google Earth or geographic information systems (GIS) enables them to explore spatial ways of thinking and learning for deeper understandings beyond curricular boundaries.

Radio: Audi MMI Navigation Plus w / MMI System - inc: Audi connect (subscription required) w / Google Earth navigation, 8 - inch central display screen, control knob and buttons in center console, Operates climate control, central locking, instrument cluster, vehicle diagnostics, cellular phone, navigation, CD and radio functions, Also includes 2 USB ports w / AMI functionality (no AMI cable), Bluetooth streaming audio, Bluetooth wireless technology preparation for mobile phone, HD Radio Technology, MMI touch and Jukebox, SD card slots w / 64 GB capacity (dual slots), SiriusXM Satellite Radio (subscription required), INRIX XD online traffic and voice control system (controls cellular phone, CD, radio and navigation), speech - to - text, Audi Sound System, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channel ampSystem - inc: Audi connect (subscription required) w / Google Earth navigation, 8 - inch central display screen, control knob and buttons in center console, Operates climate control, central locking, instrument cluster, vehicle diagnostics, cellular phone, navigation, CD and radio functions, Also includes 2 USB ports w / AMI functionality (no AMI cable), Bluetooth streaming audio, Bluetooth wireless technology preparation for mobile phone, HD Radio Technology, MMI touch and Jukebox, SD card slots w / 64 GB capacity (dual slots), SiriusXM Satellite Radio (subscription required), INRIX XD online traffic and voice control system (controls cellular phone, CD, radio and navigation), speech - to - text, Audi Sound System, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channeltechnology preparation for mobile phone, HD Radio Technology, MMI touch and Jukebox, SD card slots w / 64 GB capacity (dual slots), SiriusXM Satellite Radio (subscription required), INRIX XD online traffic and voice control system (controls cellular phone, CD, radio and navigation), speech - to - text, Audi Sound System, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channelTechnology, MMI touch and Jukebox, SD card slots w / 64 GB capacity (dual slots), SiriusXM Satellite Radio (subscription required), INRIX XD online traffic and voice control system (controls cellular phone, CD, radio and navigation), speech - to - text, Audi Sound System, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channel ampsystem (controls cellular phone, CD, radio and navigation), speech - to - text, Audi Sound System, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channel ampSystem, 10 speakers including front center speaker and subwoofer in the rear, 180 watts and a 6 - channel amplifier

Under the umbrella of Honda's Earth Dreams Technology program, the new Fit Hybrid will be the first to employ Honda's Intelligent Dual Clutch Drive system, or i - DCD.

The 2014 Accord PHEV is powered by an all - new «Honda Earth Dreams technology» two - motor hybrid system.

This new hybrid system will be the latest addition to the Earth Dreams Technology series of next - generation powertrain technology (replacing the current IMA hybrid system), and was previewed by Honda Technology series of next - generation powertrain technology (replacing the current IMA hybrid system), and was previewed by Honda technology (replacing the current IMA hybrid system), and was previewed by Honda Motor Co..

The performance hybrid system, one of Honda's new «Earth Dreams» technologies (earlier post), utilizes a front - mounted 30 kW + electric motor, located within the 7 - speed dual clutch transmission, and a novel dual electric motor drive unit (independent 20 kW + units on each side) with a bilateral torque adjustable control system to instantly generate negative or positive torque to the rear wheels during cornering.

The 2015 CR - V offers a new direct - injected Earth Dreams Technology i - VTEC engine and new continuously variable transmission (CVT); a new suite of «Honda Sensing» safety and driver assistance systems (DAS); significantly enhanced exterior and interior styling; as well a long list of new standard and available features and a new premium Touring trim.

Honda's 2013 Accord, the 9th generation of the model, which is due to go on sale this fall, will feature three all - new powertrains, including the first US application of both a 2.4 - liter direct - injected engine and two - motor plug - in hybrid system (earlier post) from Honda's suite of next - generation Earth Dreams powertrain technologies.

Red - lining at 7,000 rpm, the engine — part of Honda's next - generation Earth Dreams Technology series — features an advanced new turbocharging system which incorporates Honda's legendary Variable Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) technology to boost low - end torque while delivering sustained accTechnology series — features an advanced new turbocharging system which incorporates Honda's legendary Variable Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) technology to boost low - end torque while delivering sustained acctechnology to boost low - end torque while delivering sustained acceleration.

Technology upgrades include an MMI Navigation Plus option package that installs a larger 7 - inch infotainment screen, a navigation system with Google Earth imagery, Audi Connect subscription services including real - time traffic and weather reports, and a 3G Wi - Fi connection.

And this leadership is only going to grow as we accelerate the deployment of new Earth Dreams Technology engines, transmissions and electric drive systems.

The Accord Hybrid's two - motor hybrid system, part of an expanding lineup of Honda Earth Dreams Technology ™ powertrains, seamlessly blends electric - only, hybrid and engine drive modes along with powerful regenerative braking to provide responsive and efficient performance in a wide range of driving situations.

The base V6 engine, which shares the Acura TL's new Earth Dreams powertrain technology, is combined with a front - wheel - drive transmission and a four - wheel steering system.

The Prestige adds an LED Lighting package (including LED headlights and LED ambient interior lighting), power - folding exterior mirrors with driver - side auto - dimming, automatic high beams, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, a 14 - speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system and a Technology package (including an expanded Virtual Cockpit instrument cluster, mobile 4G LTE connectivity with Wi - Fi hot - spot capability, mobile app integration, an upgraded MMI system with an improved display and a touch - sensitive controller, voice controls, a navigation system with Google Earth imagery and lane departure warning).

All Harman Kardon systems in the 2013 SRT Viper lineup include high - performance, high - efficiency GreenEdge technology loudspeakers that are extremely light and include rare earth magnets.