Sentences with phrase «for weather satellites»

that's why I said oldest some bible stories tens if not hundreds of thousands of years old.I can tell you about hurricanes that struck here years before I was born because of older families telling what happened.thank God or who ever you want for weather satellites I do.

Not exact matches

Spire Global raised $ 70 million to put small satellites into orbit for weather forecasting and ship tracking.

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

President Barack Obama has proposed $ 380 million for the new weather satellites.

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.

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.

Working has greatly slowed down my progress as well: I'm currently working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of a team trying to predict snowfall rates from satellite and weather forecast model data.

Shelby signaled potential increased spending for NOAA's satellite programs used to prepare weather prediction models and advance weather forecasting capabilities.

From rock - carved maps of Idaho's Snake River, to hand - drawn and painted Ptolemaic world maps predating the discovery of the Americas, to Landsat satellite images of the Great Wall of China, this colorfully illustrated history shows how maps for cities, subways, weather, and even «moral statistics,» such as crime and poverty have helped people navigate Earth — and conquer large parts of it too.

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.

Rather than searching for weird weather or enemy missiles, some satellites are helping researchers to track — and predict — the spread of deadly diseases.

And whether it's the private communications satellite that carries your phone calls or a government satellite that tracks the weather, we all end up footing the bill for that replacement one way or another.

Atmospheric scientists are analyzing data from weather balloons and satellites for clues to how the ozone will fare when sunlight — a third factor in ozone loss — returns to the Arctic.

NASA spends only $ 1.2 million a year operating the satellite's Earth - facing instruments, as DSCOVR's primary costs, for its sun - facing space weather instruments, lie with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• EXTREME WEATHER New radar and satellite technologies will allow forecasters to build better computer models for extreme weather events, such as tornadoes and hurrWEATHER New radar and satellite technologies will allow forecasters to build better computer models for extreme weather events, such as tornadoes and hurrweather events, such as tornadoes and hurricanes.

Commercial satellite services — communication, navigation, and weather forecasts — generated more than $ 56 billion for the United States in 2004 alone.

For the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC with its ground stations and modern weather satellites provide reliable global data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapFor the first time, the researchers have proved that both the worldwide measurement network NDACC with its ground stations and modern weather satellites provide reliable global data for the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapfor the isotope composition of tropospheric water vapor.

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.

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

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

CubeSats are ideally poised for studying space storms in the lower areas of the atmosphere, which are too high for weather balloons and too low for larger satellites to survive.

• $ 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.

Polar satellites are uniquely important for weather prediction.

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.

Other countries should be worried, too: even if their militaries are not as dependent on satellites, they make use of them for positioning, weather forecasts and communications.

Tools for forecasting extreme weather have advanced in recent decades, but researchers and engineers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to enhance radars, satellites and supercomputers to further lengthen warning times for tornadoes and thunderstorms and to better determine hurricane intensity and forecast floods.

«Space - weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades,» said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager.

Without more detailed satellite observations, extending the range of accurate weather forecasts — especially for such extreme events as hurricanes — would be severely restricted.

Apart from ground stations, weather forecasts are heavily dependent on weather satellites for information to start or «initialize» the numerical weather prediction models that are the foundation of modern weather prediction.

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.

«Historically, such weather conditions slow down the summer ice loss, but we still got down to essentially a tie for second lowest in the satellite record.»

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.

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.

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.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future climate change.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a plan that would shift $ 1.6 billion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to NASA for the space agency to build and manage four weather satellite programs.

The world has changed radically since the era of the Hindenburg; today's satellite weather forecasts, GPS - tracking, radar, computer - controlled avionics and in - flight management systems have paved the way for this new wave of hybrid airships.

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.

The budget asks for $ 2 billion to push forward with the next generation of weather satellites, including $ 380 million to begin to develop a Polar Follow - On satellite program, designed to fill the data gap between the current Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite with NASA and the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), of which the first satellite is scheduled to launch in early 2017.

For my research in climate science, I use a satellite to measure physical and optical properties of clouds with the view to further improve weather and climate models.

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 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.

You have satellite phones and things like that, but still, for example, in this arctic expedition, it was several field seasons under very tough conditions, high winds, cold, polar bear territory, you know, brutal weather, difficult logistics and the expense, high expense these days; but they stuck with it and they hit pay dirt.

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.

The sun's «weather» is of interest to solar physicists because it can create adverse conditions for space travelers, communications satellites and even electrical systems on Earth.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

My main problem with that study is that the weather models don't use any forcings at all — no changes in ozone, CO2, volcanos, aerosols, solar etc. — and so while some of the effects of the forcings might be captured (since the weather models assimilate satellite data etc.), there is no reason to think that they get all of the signal — particularly for near surface effects (tropospheric ozone for instance).