Sentences with phrase «noaa weather satellites»

• $ 966 billion million for NOAA weather satellites, which are important early warning tools to help save lives and money, and includes funding to restore critical climate sensors that were deleted from our next generation polar satellites because of cost overruns.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The language notes that NOAA's mission for polar orbiting weather satellites «continues on a tenuous path.»

For years, concern about NOAA's troubled polar satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve weather data.

NOAA's weather satellites supply more than 90 percent of the data that go into daily and long - range forecasts, and they are critical in providing alerts of severe weather potential multiple days in advance.

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.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): The bill provides $ 5.4 billion for NOAA, $ 126 million above 2014, and includes funding to keep several troubled weather satellites on track.

Until now, NOAA has gathered data by building and launching its own expensive weather satellites rather than buying data from private companies.

Plagued by cost overruns on its own satellites, NOAA has been pressured by Congress to explore commercial weather satellites, which included a mandate for the commercial weather pilot in its 2016 appropriations.

SUVI will allow the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to provide early space weather warnings to electric power companies, telecommunication providers and satellite operators.

The military satellites can probably survive well beyond 2012, although they do not provide all the data NOAA needs for its weather - forecasting models.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) budget request reveals a strong focus on planning for and mitigating the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, with money set aside for new weather satellites, climate mitigation planning, and additional grants for coastal resilience studies.

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

The proposal would retain support for NOAA's troubled $ 11.3 billion Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a series of two advanced weather satellites, the first of which is set for launch late this summer, and its $ 11.3 billion line of four new geostationary satellites, the first of which, GOES - 16, launched late last year.

The fate of two further planned polar satellites, JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4, remain uncertain in the proposal, which says NOAA will obtain cost savings in the program by «better reflecting the actual risk of a gap in polar satellite coverage,» along with opening up more opportunities for startup commercial weather satellites to provide data.

The law, meanwhile, maintains full support for NOAA's troubled $ 11.3 billion Joint Polar Satellite System, a series of two advanced weather satellites, the first of which is set for launch late this summer, and its $ 11.3 billion line of four new geostationary satellites, the first of which, GOES - 16, launched late last year.

As the agency that needs the data to produce weather forecasts, NOAA presumably would remain in control of the requirements, while NASA would have to fight the budget battles to pay for satellites to meet them, a difficult position to be in.

Worth a collective $ 22 billion in estimated lifecycle costs, the satellite programs are vital to NOAA's mission of providing weather forecast data to scientists on the ground.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Powered aloft by its lone RD - 180 rocket engine and four Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ60A solid rocket boosters, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 launched the GOES - S weather satellite into orbit on behalf of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

On February 17, 2012, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on President Obama's FY2013 budget request for research and development, including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which operates the nation's civil weather satellites.

The House Approrpriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) held a hearing on June 21, 2012 on financial misconduct at the National Weather Service, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that uses data from the nation's weather satellites.

Both the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) satellite (analyzed by the University of Alabama in Huntsville by John Christy and Roy Spencer) and weather balloon data (trends reported by a number of researchers, notably Jim Angell at NOAA) have failed to show significant warming since the satellite record began in late 1978, even though the surface record has been rising at its fastest pace (~ 0.15 C / decade) since instrumental records began.

NPP serves as a bridge mission from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) of satellites to the next - generation Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program that will also collect weather and climate data.

With a likely gap in critical weather satellite coverage beginning in 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has not developed sufficient contingency measures to ensure that weather forecasts remain as reliable as they are today, according to three new federally commissioned reports and lawmakers at a House subcommittee hearing.

NOAA, though, has usually relied on NASA for support developing and operating missions, including those funded by NOAA itself, such as traditional weather satellites.

These include the primary surface temperature thermometer records (NASA GISS, NOAA, and HadCRUT); satellite measurements of the lower troposphere temperature processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH); and 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data, buoy and ship measurements, and meteorological weather modeling.

NOAA scientists looked at satellite - based records for the lower and middle troposphere, which is the layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs, as well as the stratosphere, which is the layer above it.

[Translate] Defunding NOAA's satellites will also hurt weather forecasts, jeopardizing public safety, experts warn.

I have found the work at Surfacestations.org to be extremely illuminating when you look at the exact conditions of a weather station versus what Nasa / Noaa does with outdated satellite information.

NOAA meteorologists» knowledge of local weather, replacing the NOAA - 19 satellite.

To answer this question I looked at more than just the traditional Hadley, NASA and NOAA datasets, but also the measurements of the lower troposphere processed by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and the University of Alabama - Huntsville (UAH) as well as the 5 major reanalysis datasets which incorporate station data, aircraft data, satellite data, radiosonde data and meteorological weather modeling.

The NOAA surface record, on the other hand, are what is known as composite records, which takes temperature information from a variety of sources — surface weather stations, satellites, ocean buoys and more — and combines them.

Last month, for instance, NASA partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to launch the GOES - R satellite, which will map hurricanes, blizzards, and other severe weather in far more detail than previously available.

Jeff Foust of SpaceNews explains: «[NOAA] has usually relied on NASA for support developing and operating missions, including those funded by NOAA itself, such as traditional weather satellites.

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).

The two satellites — part of the so - called GOES - R series — are a much needed upgrade to NOAA's old weather satellites, which sport 1990s hardware.