Sentences with phrase «noaa satellite»

(Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of Hurricane Ivan taken at 4:15 p.m. ET on Sept. 15, 2004, just hours before making landfall on the USA Gulf Coast.

(Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of Hurricane Ivan taken Sept. 15, 2004, at 11:15 a.m. EDT before slamming into the USA Gulf Coast.

(Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of sea surface temperature anomalies as of Aug. 7, 2006.

Their findings are based on NOAA satellite data and surface measurements, combined using a special ice sheet computer model.

NOAA also says that Arctic sea ice was «below normal for the 11th consecutive April» while «based on NOAA satellite observations, snow cover extent was the fourth - lowest on record» since... Read more

He also presented evidence that much of the discrepancy was due to observational uncertainty, resulting from stratospheric cooling contaminating satellite measurements of tropospheric temperature (a point that's been noted by the NOAA satellite analysis team since at least 2004; see: «Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite - inferred tropospheric temperature trends»).

NOAA scientists have a long history of scientific leadership in studies of Antarctic ozone, and NOAA satellite data will be important as new instrumentation (such as OMPS on NPOESS) becomes a cornerstone of the ozone monitoring system.

Looking above Earth's surface at certain layers of the atmosphere, several different analyses examined NOAA satellite - based data records for the lower and middle troposphere and the lower stratosphere.

NOAA satellites are observing the planet 24 hours a day, seven days a week to support the weather forecasts and warnings that save lives.

From August through October, NOAA satellites detected elevated sea surface temperatures spanning much of the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean basin from Belize to Jamaica, Honduras and Venezuela.

Cloud information was provided by ivisible and infrared images from two NOAA satellites — GOES - 7 and GOES - 8.

The case for substantial cloud impact on temperature and climate, both in the short and long terms, is growing as Dr. Spencer continues his research of data being gathered by NOAA satellites.

The EUMETSAT METOP - A satellite and NOAA satellites NOAA - 18 and NOAA - 19 are currently used.

All through this long, hot summer I've been peering down at Earth through the sensors of humanity's eyes in the sky: MODIS, with its the 36 frequency bands, flying aboard NASA's «Terra» and «Aqua,» or the AMSU microwave sensors aboard NOAA satellites.

Not exact matches

Here's an image of Florida from May 11, 2017, courtesy of NOAA and NASA's Suomi satellite, which can spot nighttime city lights from 512 miles above Earth.

The photos come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) new GOES - 16 satellite, which according to the NOAA, «provide a full image of Earth every 15 minutes and one of the continental U.S. every five minutes.»

A satellite image shows Hurricane Irma as it approaches Puerto Rico National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / EPA

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

NOAA's flagship weather satellites, the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, would receive full funding for FY 2018.

NOAA says the gap will begin in late 2016 and last from 12 to 18 months, depending on how long it takes to complete quality - control checks on a new satellite

Shelby signaled potential increased spending for NOAA's satellite programs used to prepare weather prediction models and advance weather forecasting capabilities.

NOAA's two major satellite programs relating to weather forecasting — the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system — would be allotted $ 775.8 million and $ 518 million respectively, as requested.

With help from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, the program, dubbed COSMIC, launched six satellites in April 2006.

But NOAA budgets were tight, and what he needed was a new breed of smaller satellites and a cheap way to launch them.

Solar outbursts have effects on everything from satellites to the electrical grid here on Earth and predicting such storms is a continuing effort for NASA, NOAA and other government and scientific groups.

They used images from NOAA's Cloud - Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite to track the dust, and confirmed it was traveling all the way to California.

Since the 1970s, NASA and NOAA have used a variety of instruments, including satellites and balloons, to measure the ozone layer.

NOAA's GOES - East satellite data was made into an animation that showed the development of the unusual storm.

Aquarius must compete with other NOAA programs for a slice of the agency's annual budget of about $ 5.1 billion, most of it devoted to weather and satellite studies.

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch uses satellite observations of sea surface temperatures and modeling to monitor and forecast when water temperatures rise enough to cause bleaching.

IRMA INCOMING Hurricane Irma passed by Cuba on September 8, 2017, as a Category 4 storm (seen in this geocolor image captured by NOAA's GOES - 16 satellite) before making landfall in the Florida Keys on September 10, 2017.

The result is «a nearly 100 percent chance» of a gap in weather and climate data used by NOAA and the military, Glackin said, because the JPSS - 1 satellite won't be ready to replace its predecessor, the NPP satellite that launched last month, before it stops functioning.

NOAA believes the data gap will begin in late 2016 and last anywhere from 12 to 18 months, depending on how long it takes the agency to complete quality - control checks on the data transmitted from JPSS - 1 once the satellite reaches orbit.

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.

Meanwhile, Zinser said, the agency must work to prevent another potential data gap that could occur if the NPP satellite hasn't finished in - orbit quality control checks before its predecessor, known as NOAA - 19, reaches the end of its design life in March 2013.

According to the atlas, which was produced by analyzing tens of thousands of high - resolution images of nighttime lights on Earth from the NOAA — NASA Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite, roughly one in three humans on Earth can not see the Milky Way when they look up into the night sky.

NOAA's ambitious plans for new satellites are consuming more of the agency's budget, prompting questions from lawmakers

That will allow NOAA to begin work on areas it neglected in 2011, including work on the ground system for the NPP satellite and building the body for the program's next satellite.

Zinser and NOAA agree that it could take up to 18 months to finish the checks on NPP, which launched in October, which would mean the satellite wouldn't be fully operational until the very end of NOAA - 19's design life.

Data from the Visible - Infrared Imager / Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the NASA / NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness, and is sending extraordinary images back to Earth giving us a clearer picture of vegetation around the world.

NOAA, in cooperation with NASA, used satellite data from April 2012 to April 2013 to generate a stunning series of animations and images depicting the annual cycle of green vegetation on Earth.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

NOAA manages the GOES program, establishes requirements, provides all funding and distributes environmental satellite data for the United States.

The NASA / NOAA GOES Project has now created two new types of animations based on satellite data that indicate where water vapor is moving over the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans.

«This administration clearly has an anti-science agenda, and within that it has a very energized anti-climate-science agenda that's very visible in the cuts that are being prioritized,» she said, adding, «Climate science requires these satellites; not just NOAA scientists but scientists around the world depend on the data that NOAA generates.»

She said NOAA's satellites provide information for storm warnings, extreme weather preparation, sea - level - rise predictions and basic weather forecasting essential to the agriculture, real estate and energy industries.

NASA Goddard procures and manages the design, development and launch of the satellites for NOAA on a cost reimbursable basis.

NOAA's satellites are the backbone of its life - saving weather forecasts.

William Rose and his colleagues at Michigan Technological University in Houghton examined the Rabaul cloud using a radiometer on the US NOAA - 12 satellite.

The SEISS sensors have been collecting data continuously since January 8, 2017, with an amplitude, energy and time resolution that is greater than earlier generations of NOAA's geostationary satellites.