Sentences with phrase «making weather observations»

In 2012 PCIC launched its Data Portal with the BC Station Data Page, making weather observations from more than 6000 stations available to the public.

By Amber Bentley (Aged 11) In just 16 pages, this wonderful book covers the structure of the atmosphere, solar radiation, the water cycle, clouds, fronts, convection, air pressure, air masses, the global atmospheric circulation, making weather observations, forecasting, synoptic charts, hurricanes, regional climate, palaeoclimates and anthropogenic climate change.

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Lessons include some of the following topics: simple machines, air quality, nature of science, making observations, flight, astronomy, exercise, nutrition, rockets, graphing, weather, and lots more.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, and may someday be useful for gauging the habitability of Earth - size planets.

Throughout the night, the team may make long observations of a few astronomical objects, or they may move from target to target, always trying to make the best possible use of the time and weather conditions.

The project may involve the following topics: — Interaction of the solar wind with magnetised and unmagnetised planets — Space weather forecasts — Numerical (HPC) and analytical modelling of MHD wave processes and jets in solar and astrophysical plasma — MHD wave observations and solar magneto - seismology — Application of advanced data analysis to solar system science — Physics of collisionless shocks (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)-- Analysis of multi-point measurements made by space missions, e.g Cluster (ESA), THEMIS (NASA), MMS (NASA)

This company provides weather - related observations and software to governments and other groups to help with decision - making.

The «Cooperative Network» operated by the National Weather Service (or NWS) is a network of several thousand volunteers from across the country that routinely make and report weather observations.

The statistics of the weather make short term climate prediction very difficult — particularly for climate models that are not run with any kind of initialization for observations — this has been said over and over.

Think about what you already know about weather, look at weather forecasts and video your own school weather forecasts; do weather observations and make collages about the seasons; have fun with shadows; make a class weather station that can measure rainfall, wind direction and temperature.

Making observations about the weather and discussing climate are great ways to teach children about science, especially since weather is something children can easily relate to and understand.

The radiative flux predicted by the HIRLAM weather model was compared to observations made in Jokioinen and Sodankylä.

With a bit of care and a few precautions, weather observations can be made quite accurately at school or home.

This is what makes paleoreconstructions possible, and what makes it possible to initialize global numerical weather prediction models with so few observations.)

Ezra describes man - made global warming as «a theory that has been cast into disrepute through not only the misconduct of its high priests but by scientific observation itself: There has been no measurable global warming since 1998, according to satellite weather data.»

Near global observations of other surface «weather» variables, such as precipitation and winds, have been made for about a hundred years.

Using high - powered models and complex statistical analysis of observations, credible scientific statements can now be made about how climate change affect the frequency or intensity of a specific weather event.

In particular, presentations on advances being made in integrating observations from various sources, such as citizen weather observer programs, are welcome.

A few days later, the data are reanalysed using a global weather model that has been applied consistently to observations made from 1979 onwards.

Surface observations made at weather stations and onboard ships, dating back over a century, provide the longest available records of cloud cover changes.

Before the 19th century virtually all weather observations were made by amateurs, providing data that would become essential for tracking long - term changes.

Many site moves of this type took place in the 1990s, due in combination to the Bureau's roll - out of the automatic weather station network and the corporatisation of Australia Post, which made post offices a less viable proposition as observation sites.

US Weather Bureau instructions (Bureau [1938]-RRB- state that the \ condenserintake method is the simpler and shorter means of obtaining the water temperature» and that some observers took ERI measurements \ if the severity of the weather [was] such as to exclude the possibility of making a bucket observation».

The statistics of the weather make short term climate prediction very difficult — particularly for climate models that are not run with any kind of initialization for observations — this has been said over and over.

In a car accident case — especially in cases where an insurance company is disputing liability (or fault)-- lay witnesses can testify about the speeds and directions of vehicles, temperature and weather conditions at the scene, traffic conditions at the scene, lane markings, visibility conditions, observations made at the scene, statements that were made by either the plaintiff or the defendant at the scene, and the presence (or absence) of traffic control devices at the scene, such as traffic lights or stop signs.