Sentences with phrase «by weather satellites»

The very first finding in the original news release for the ISPM (and the original version of ISPM overview) contains the following statement: «Data collected by weather satellites since 1979 continue to exhibit little evidence of atmospheric warming, with estimated trends ranging from nearly zero to the low end of past IPCC forecasts.»

The overview (and amended news release) now read: «Data collected by weather satellites since 1979 continue to exhibit some evidence of lower atmospheric warming, with estimated trends ranging near the low end of past IPCC forecasts.»

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering proposals to share L band spectrum in or near bands currently used by weather satellites, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and aircraft navigation systems.

The study examined a 28 - year time series (1982 - 2009), which was composed of measurements taken by weather satellites passing over the polar region.

And the daily snapshots it sends back are every bit as interesting as those recorded by the weather satellites orbiting Earth.

Not exact matches

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

Using satellites, ground - based instruments, and ozone - measuring weather balloons, they showed that since 2000, the September hole shrunk by 4 million square kilometers — an area bigger than India.

While weather stations typically measure air temperatures just above the surface, satellites record the thermal energy emitted by soil, rock, pavement, grass, trees and other features of the landscape.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

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.

Whether they started as planetary twins or as wayward rocks captured by a planet's gravity, these natural satellites can be as geologically active, weather - beaten or just plain weird as any planet.

They analyzed ozone measurements taken from weather balloons and satellites, as well as satellite measurements of sulfur dioxide emitted by volcanoes, which can also enhance ozone depletion.

The ionosphere is both shaped by waves from the atmosphere below and uniquely responsive to the changing conditions in space, conveying such space weather into observable, Earth - effective phenomena — creating the aurora, disrupting communications signals, and sometimes causing satellite problems.

An earlier study based on maps of the Antarctic ice produced by American weather satellites, by Joe Jacka and colleagues at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania, showed a similar decline in Antarctic sea ice.

A new Columbia Engineering study, led by Pierre Gentine, associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, analyzes global satellite observations and shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent.

The data comes from space - weather sensors developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory on board the nation's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

While the ongoing research uses ground - based lightning detection networks, the UAH team is also working on being able to use lightning counts reported by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper aboard the GOES - R geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2016.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

In the world's poorest places, the movements and prosperity of people can be traced by the appearance of electric lights, which is recorded by US weather satellites.

WEATHER forecasts in the southern hemisphere have improved by up to 10 per cent as a result of the detailed information about winds provided by the European Space Agency's ERS - 1 satellite.

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

To run these weather track models, scientists start by gathering information about the atmosphere from various sources, including ships, balloons and satellites.

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

This phenomenon may have important implications for space weather and may play an important role in the acceleration and scattering of electrons and ions by these waves that can cause problems ranging from minor anomalies to the complete failure of critical satellites.

U.S. satellite data since 1979 has revealed that the troposphere — the weather - bearing layer of our atmosphere that extends more than seven miles up — warmed the most, by roughly 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, in the middle latitudes.

The STS - 111 aircraft, which is still in prototype, is in essence a worm - like weather balloon that undulates through the Earth's lower atmosphere, guided by satellite or ground communications or programmed to operate autonomously.

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.

By poring over NASA's satellite imagery, quantum processors could take a machine learning approach to uncover new patterns in how weather moves across the world over the course of weeks, months, or even years, he says.

The insight from weather modification's old guard — that tiny changes can engender profound atmospheric shifts — has been embraced by more recent, cutting - edge investigators, those conceiving weather - changing satellites and using physics theories to invent a climate of choice.

A new study shows that images of a meteor's streak through the atmosphere taken by Earth - gazing probes, including weather satellites, can pin down the object's orbit, enabling scientists to check and see whether another planet - threatening object is traveling in the same trajectory.

For their paper, published in Applied Geography, researchers at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Battelle Memorial Institute studied air temperature data from weather stations, land surface temperatures measured by satellites and socioeconomic data.

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 image was captured by a European weather satellite.

The work will be performed in the context of a new NERC - funded consortium led by the British Antarctic Survey (Rad - Sat) whose goal is to model the acceleration, transport and loss of radiation belt electrons to protect satellites from space weather.

Unlike Earth or Mars, Pluto has no satellites or ground stations, so the types of data that are used by normal weather and climate people (air pressure, temperature, atmospheric composition, etc.) are not available for Pluto.

However the temperature signal is a splice of weather balloon data (RATPAC - A) to the end of 1979 followed by satellite data (UAH TLT) since 1980.

This warming trend is obscured by substituting the weather balloon data with satellite data after 1980.

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).

It also appears dramatically in data being collected by NASA satellites and other weather - monitoring instruments used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

By the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining with weather station datBy the 1980's, weather satellites could measure rainfall and cloud cover all over the planet and infer things like air pressure by combining with weather station datby combining with weather station data.

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That girl - narrated backstory at the beginning sounds like it would have made a more interesting piece of thorny geopolitical sci - fi than the CGI glop we get instead: How do 18 countries, led by the U.S. and China, come together to battle horrible climate change effects by installing a galactic safety net of thousands of satellites with the ability to balance extreme weather conditions around the world?

Debris includes rocket boosters ~ old communication and weather satellites and even tools dropped by astronauts while outside the International Space Station.

The new TL goes a step further by adding weather info - including radar weather maps, forecasts, and alerts - supplied by XM satellite radio.

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Inspired by the natural universe and science, she painted expressive compositions drawn from satellite imagery and weather systems.

«The White House is requesting $ 47 million in fiscal year 2012 to convert a climate satellite grounded by politics into an observatory to monitor space weather and warn of solar storms.»

At face value, the satellite data is supported by weather balloon data, covers a much larger area of the globe than the surface - based data, and, as you pointed out, is free from the urban heat island effect and other potential flaws of surface measurements.