Sentences with phrase «based radar observations»

Homeyer's research is the first concept of its kind to take ground - based radar observations of storms and link them to satellite observations of trace gases to better understand the characteristics of storms and how they modify the atmospheric composition.

Astronomers studied Toutatis, Geographos and Castalia using Earth - based radar observations during close approaches to the Earth.

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French credited modern technology with making the detailed cloud - seeding observations possible, citing the use of ground - based radar as well as radar on UW's King Air research aircraft and multiple flights over the mountains near Boise.

EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.

The find, based on new radar observations, adds to a deluge of evidence that the moon's lakes are indeed filled with liquid, rather than dried mud.

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

Subtle dynamical motions measured by Earth - based radar, the observed parameters of its gravity field, and observations of the magnetic field indicate that Mercury's core is at least partially liquid with an active core dynamo.

In 1965, Pettengill and Dyce determined Mercury's period of rotation to be 59 + - 5 days based upon radar observations.