Sentences with phrase «detailed atmospheric measurements»
Not exact matches
The most detailed measurements currently available of atmospheric methane concentrations come from a sensor aboard the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 5P spacecraft, which launched in October 2017 (ref.
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On Antarctica's Ross Island, a short drive from the US McMurdo research station, high - tech radar antennas and other atmospheric instruments gaze skyward, gathering detailed measurements of West Antarctic clouds.
The ARM data will provide more detailed measurements of both aerosols and clouds to assist the research team in quantifying the impacts of aerosols on precipitation under a variety of atmospheric and pollution conditions.
Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.
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Detailed measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have been taken continuously for more than 50 years.
The ability to hindcast the detailed changes in atmospheric composition over the past decade, particularly the variability of tropospheric O3 and CO, is limited by the availability of measurements and their integration with models and emissions data.
In conclusion, the present atmospheric measurement network, current information on air - sea fluxes and current understanding of vertical atmospheric transport are not sufficient to allow full use of the potential of inverse modelling techniques to infer geographically detailed source - sink distributions of anthropogenic CO2.