Sentences with phrase «measurements from space»

The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project released Version 5.0 of the RGI in 2015 (Arendt et al. 2015).

It also requires the added assumption that long - term changes in solar total radiation can exceed by two and a half times what has been observed in recent measurements from space.

By applying what has been learned about solar radiation changes from the recent measurements from space, we can infer that this gradual build - up in solar activity over several hundred years may have been accompanied by a parallel increase in the radiation received from the Sun.

The climate system receives almost all of its energy from the Sun, and recent measurements from space have revealed that what the Sun delivers on our doorstep varies from day to day and year to year.

A new book from the international GLIMS (Global Land Ice Measurements from Space) initiative, an international collaboration including the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado [continue reading...]

For example, with Étienne Berthier, of the Laboratoire d'Études en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales in Toulouse, I am writing a chapter on the Subantarctic for a book about GLIMS, the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space initiative.

Challenges and recommendations in mapping of glacier parameters from space: results of the 2008 Global Land and Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) workshop, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

In: Global Land Ice Measurements from Space.

This is what the ESRL had to say about satellite - based COs sensing and I quote «Greenhouse gas abundances derived from optical absorption measurements from space can never be calibrated because one can not control the abundance of the gases being estimated, nor can we control potential interfering factors in the optical path.»

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS).

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space.

«Routine measurements from space can provide quasi-synoptic, reproducible data for investigating processes on global scales; they may also be the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface,» the researchers wrote.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

The measurements from space are well correlated to VLF measurements that HAMMA provides.

Bluefield is one of many new companies taking advantage of new «CubeSats,» or tiny satellites that can make inexpensive measurements from space (Climatewire, Jan. 29).

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

The new satellite altimeter systems such as ICESAT and CRYOSAT offer the possibility of ice thickness measurement from space.

This figure is confirmed by Satellite measurement from space.

Not exact matches

Direct asymmetry measurement of temperature and density spatial distributions in inertial confinement fusion plasmas from pinhole space - resolved spectra

These instances seem to raise an issue of whether the datum from which abstraction is made — concrete passage — is not different in kind from the three successive abstractions: space - time, its derivative set of time - systems, and a single member of this derivative set serving in the activity of natural measurement.

After all we take all our measurements of space, for example, of latitude and longitude and the positions of the stars, and of time from an agreed starting - point: the meridian at Greenwich.

Yet the initial measurement of the stadium's length involved distinguishing one portion of space from another, i.e., considering space discontinuous.

The Newtonian cosmology sets forth the potions of absolute space «remaining always similar and immovable in its own nature» and of absolute time «flowing equably of itself and from its own nature,» and the claim that the measurement of lengths in absolute space and of durations in absolute time is independent of any «sensible and external measures» of them (PNP 6 - 8).

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

The gravity from seven of its moons stops Saturn's bright outer ring from spreading out and dispersing into space, according to Cassini spacecraft measurements

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.

Foster says the observations from space validate measurements from the ground.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

Dr. Willis studies sea level rise driven by human - caused global warming, using data measurements taken from space.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

«The wet season has typically 85 to over 95 percent cloudiness from late morning to early afternoon, when NASA satellites make measurements,» said co-author and remote sensing specialist Alexei Lyapustin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

By combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, University of Groningen astronomers have been able to measure the proper motion of 15 stars in the Sculptor Galaxy, the first such measurement of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way.

Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.

They compare those distance measurements with how the light from the supernovae is stretched to longer wavelengths by the expansion of space.

CRaTER's seminal measurements now provide quantified, radiation hazard data from lunar orbit and can be used to calculate radiation dosage from deep space down to airline altitudes.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

Currently, the best measurements of those variables come from a system called very - long - baseline interferometry (VLBI), which uses radio dishes spaced across Earth to stare at quasars — brilliant beacons in the distant universe that occasionally flicker.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

According to recent measurements by a Nobel prizewinning team, space is stretching 9 per cent faster than we think it should be — yanking distant galaxies away from us at a rate that defies easy explanation.

From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle environment of the radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.

A research team led by Romeiser was the first to accurately measure currents from a space shuttle platform between islands off the Dutch coast and the first to make current measurements using the radar on the TerraSAR - X satellite.

They also use measurements of the CMB, this time taken with the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, which collected data from 2009 to 2013 and provided far more precise CMB maps than WMAP.

A combination of airborne measurements and space weather data from satellites may allow the radiation «clouds» to be tracked.

Combining Herschel measurements with earlier results from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Thomas Müller concludes that the surface of Makemake must consist of «hot» and «cold» zones right next to each other.

Now, two orbiting telescopes, the Italian Space Agency's AGILE telescope and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have detected gamma rays emanating from Cygnus X-3, some more than 1000 times more energetic than previous measurements.

Measurements of the space environment round it show that the water flowing out from the comet's nucleus forms a prominent atmosphere which interacts with the constant flow of ionised particles from the sun, the so - called solar wind.

But measurements from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, which weigh ice by measuring its gravitational tug from space, suggest that West Antarctica as a whole is losing ice — together with the Antarctic Peninsula, about 150 cubic kilometers per year as of 2005.

More surprises came from preliminary measurements of Jupiter's gravitational field (that is, the strength and direction of the planet's gravity at different points in space).

By measuring on many locations with micrometer spacing between the measurement points, we can construct a two - dimensional image of the surface's repellency, called a wetting map,» explains Professor Quan Zhou from Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering.