Sentences with phrase «noaa polar orbiting»
From 1979 to 2005 the microwave sounding units (MSUs) and since 1998 the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units on NOAA polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen.
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Satellite data from the HIRS instruments on the NOAA polar orbiting satellites tend («sort of», only in the tropics, and only for part of the time) to support the climate model story.
Not exact matches
The language notes that NOAA's mission for polar orbiting weather satellites «continues on a tenuous path.»
In April 2011, five days before a powerful storm system tore through six southern states, NOAA's current polar - orbiting satellites provided data that, when fed into models, prompted the NOAA Storm Prediction Center to forecast «a potentially historic tornado outbreak.»
She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.