Sentences with phrase «satellite microwave radiometers»
CMIS represented the state of the art in satellite microwave radiometers and was intended to continue, with a higher degree of accuracy and resolution, the time series of many fundamental climate variables, including SST and wind, sea ice and snow coverage, soil moisture, and atmospheric moisture (vapor, clouds, and rain).
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RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.
In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.
The first such map was created in 1992, based on data gathered by the Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR), an instrument on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which NASA launched in 1989.
The satellite data come from the European Remote Sensing satellite scatterometers (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometers (NSCAT and Seawinds onboard ADEOS - 1 and QuikScat respectively), and several defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) radiometers (Special Sensor Microwave / Imager [SSM / I] F10 - F15).
This image shows the minimum extent for 2009 as observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR - E), a Japanese sensor flying on NASA's Aqua satellite.
These were based on U.S. Navy, Canadian and Danish aerial reconnaissance data and from retrievals from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR), passive microwave, and other satellite instruments
Roy W. Spencer is a well known AGW «Denier» a PHD, U.S., Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) on NASA's Aqua satellite, holder of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, published in Nature (one of the most prestigious science journals in the world), yet some of his most basic scientific ideas are clearly ridiculous.
Motivated primarily by Mitchum's conclusion, Keihm et al., 2000 (Abstract; Google Scholar access) actively tried to come up with something that could cause a «drift» in the satellites, and eventually decided that a temporary problem in the «TOPEX Microwave Radiometer path delay measurements», which stopped in December 1996 could do that.
Microwave radars of the European Remote - Sensing Satellites (ERS), radiometers of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the dual - frequency altimeter TOPEX - POSEIDON have shown their ability to improve the description and location of storms, especially in the case of tropical cyclones for which very few traditional observations exist.
The top image, made from sea ice observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, shows sea ice extent on September 19, 2010.
Since 1979, scientists have relied on a variety of satellite sensors, including the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), the Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — Earth Observing System (AMSR - E), and (most recently) the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS).
The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E), a high - resolution passive microwave Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the state of Arctic sea ice on September 10 in this image released September Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E), a high - resolution passive microwave Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the state of Arctic sea ice on September 10 in this image released September microwave Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite shows the state of Arctic sea ice on September 10 in this image released September 16, 2008.
This figure is an overlay of a lightning stroke map from WWLLN (black circles) and 91 - gigahertz brightness temperatures provided by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS) radiometer on the low - orbit satellite DMSP F - 18.
Currently a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he also «serves as the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS... flying on NASA's Aqua satellite.»
The primary sources of the post-1972 data are the hemispheric fields of sea - ice concentration from (1) the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC), whose weekly grids (derived primarily from satellite data) span the period 1972 - 1994, and (2) the satellite passive - microwave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and othermicrowave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and otherMicrowave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and otherMicrowave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and others, 1999).
The 2012 map was compiled from observations by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR - 2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st — Water («Shizuku») satellite, which is operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR - 2 sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st - Water (GCOM - W1) satellite.
The microwave radiometers on the Nimbus - 7 satellite pick up these differences.
The 1984 image was made from observations by the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus - 7 satellite.
Note: The Sea Ice Index input data comes from the passive microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002 to 2011.
To monitor Arctic sea ice, NSIDC primarily has used the NASA Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the NASA Aqua satellite and the Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) instrument on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite.
Useful satellite data concerning sea ice began in late 1978 with the launch of NASA's Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) satellite.
The animation was made with measurements taken by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — EOS (AMSR - E) on NASA's Aqua satellite between March 7 and September 9.
Temperature sounding microwave radiometers flown on polar - orbiting weather satellites provide a long - term, global - scale record of upper - atmosphere temperatures, beginning in late 1978 and continuing to the present.
For example, the NASA Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) could fill in some missing data because it has a smaller pole hole than other satellites.