Sentences with phrase «ground measurement stations»

Not exact matches

O'Keefe said the flood in the village shows the limits of flash flood forecasting, which relies on Doppler radar; rainfall measurements from ground stations, like the New York State Mesonet, a network of more than 120 weather stations across the state; and reports from ground observers.

In addition to these measurements several ground stations of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receive data from GPS, Galileo and GLONASS.

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 vapor.

Once microgravity was achieved, the system started measurements automatically and was controlled from the ground station via a low - bandwidth radio link.

The campaign is supported by ground - based measurements at various stations, analysis of satellite data, and model calculations.

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.

Measurements at a ground station in Barrow, in the north of Alaska, show a drop of as much as 50 per cent since 1982 in the «Arctic haze», a cloud of pollutants that forms over the Arctic each spring.

I have personally checked 24 of the USHCN stations in the western U.S. and after seeing the gross quality control problems with the current ground - based measurements, have far greater confidence in the RSS and UAH data.

Measurements of greenhouse gases taken by aircraft and ground stations like these were used in the new study of methane estimates.

Unlike the ground weather station measurements, these sample the entire world evenly, and sample at several heights in the air.

So either get some decent ground stations — and place them to remove the urban / rural heating problem (which means controlling vegetation for miles around) and / or get some polar orbiting satellites so we have 100 % satellite coverage OR satellites + detailed accurate measurements of part of the global to act as a reference calibration area to improve accuracy of satellites.

The problem is that the NOAA ground station temperature measurements have been adjusted to indicate global warming.

We have ground station measurements that agree with satellite readings.

The Amazing Case of «Back Radiation» - Part One — all about DLR or «back radiation» and the measurements from ground stations around the world.

Mears and others said that the satellite measurements should not be taken seriously because they only infer the temperature from measurements of radio emissions by Oxygen molecules - AND - that these final numbers never match actual temperature measurements made over land and water (ground stations as well as radiosonde).

Then there are the ground station measurements.

While there are few ground - based weather stations in the North Pacific to tally how much rain fell over the ocean, satellites such as those participating in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission can estimate precipitation rates from above.

The milestone measurement was made at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, a ground - based station that has collected CO2 data since 1958.

The average global temperature incorporates measurements taken from locations across land and sea, including 6,300 ground - based weather stations, legions of ocean buoys and research facilities in Antarctica.

Air - quality monitoring stations maintained by the Palo Alto, Calif. - based EPRI, Southern Company and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will support ground - based measurements for the project.