Sentences with phrase «microwave data from»

The Sea Ice Index relies on NASA - developed methods to estimate sea ice conditions using passive - microwave data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS).

Multi-spectral and active microwave data from satellites, plus an effective network of ecological plots, appear capable of monitoring response to climate change.

Christopher A. Shuman Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Specialties: Ice elevation changes and glacier mass losses using altimetry in combination with other remote sensing in the Antarctica Peninsula, the accuracy of early ICESat - 1 data, composite temperature records derived from AWS passive microwave data from SMMR and SSM / I and IR data from AVHRR

(1) In addition to the data of the near - surface temperatures, which are composed of measurements from weather stations and sea surface temperatures, there is also the microwave data from satellites, which can be used to estimate air temperatures in the troposphere in a few kilometers altitude.

A research group led by Masumi Shimojo (Assistant Professor at NAOJ Chile Observatory), including members from Nagoya University, Kyoto University, and Ibaraki University, analyzed the more than 60 years of solar microwave data from these telescopes.

Not exact matches

That's a lofty goal considering that today it is the No. 5 player in refrigerators and automatic washer / dryers, according to market share data from Euromonitor International, and isn't in Euromonitor's top 5 in dishwashers, ovens or microwaves.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

This date is 140 million years later than the previous best estimate of 420 million years post — big bang, which came in 2006 using CMB data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).

For now, the centre is preparing for those scenarios by incorporating data from Japan's AMSR2 microwave sensor into its sea - ice record.

Data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, provide compelling evidence that the cosmos has the full critical density.

The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

Dark matter, the mystery mass that, according to data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, outweighs ordinary atoms by more than five to one: That was Zwicky's.

In recent decades, advances in telescopes and sensing equipment have allowed scientists to detect a vast amount of data hidden in the «white noise» or microwaves (partly responsible for the random black and white dots you see on an un-tuned TV) left over from the moment the universe was created.

Even though the data from the cosmic microwave background shows that dark energy is required, its composition remains unclear.

If the data from different parts of the sky agree with one another, Jones says, then they probably have a common origin in the cosmic microwave background.

The data come from two different microwave sensors, the first aboard the Nimbus 7 satellite, which flew from 1978 to 1987, and the second from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Programme, which has flown since 1987.

The team used data from an Italian satellite that bounces microwave laser pulses off the ground and records the time it takes the light to return.

More evidence came last year, when data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, which analyzes the cosmic radiation left over from the Big Bang, found that dark energy makes up a full 73 percent of everything in the universe.

The map was compiled from data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a NASA orbiting laboratory that was launched June 30, 2001.

Data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), launched in 2001, bolstered a key prediction of inflation, that the universe's structure was seeded by quantum fluctuations in space - time.

Merging X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with microwave (orange) and visible images reveals the jets and radio - emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A's central black hole.

The team calculated the likely temperature profiles for such impacts and searched for them in CMB data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

Satellites collect data from the radiation emitted from the Big Bang, which is called the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB.

Such a comb can form a bridge spanning the huge frequency gap from microwaves to visible light: very precise microwave measurements can, with an optical comb, produce equally exact data about light.

Viewers can see the microwave residue from the big bang «painted» across the sphere of the sky, and — after the data are translated for human ears — hear a version of what the early universe may have sounded like.

The team then examined a data set of passive microwave measurements from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

GTTA are represented by data from satellite microwave sensing units (MSU) for the period 1980 — 2008 and from radiosondes (RATPAC) for 1958 — 2008.

Arctic sea - ice cover is predicted from coming July 1 to November 1, using the data from satellite microwave sensors, AMSR - E (2002/03 -2010 / 11) and AMSR2 (2012/13 -2016 / 17).

Finnish Meteorological Institute has been doing estimates of two essential sea ice parameters — namely, sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT)-- for the Bohai Sea using a combination of a thermodynamic sea ice model and Earth observation (EO) data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and microwave radiometer.

Melt extent from the MAR model compares favourably to microwave data.

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

This hindcast uses two time - varying inputs: 10 - meter wind vectors from the atmospheric model NAVGEM (Navy Global Environmental Model, Hogan et al. 2014) run at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and analyses of ice concentrations (also produced at FNMOC) from passive microwave radiometer data (SSM / I).

The satellite data come from the European Remote Sensing satellite scatterometers (ERS - 1 and ERS - 2), NASA scatterometers (NSCAT and Seawinds onboard ADEOS - 1 and QuikScat respectively), and several defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) radiometers (Special Sensor Microwave / Imager [SSM / I] F10 - F15).

These were based on U.S. Navy, Canadian and Danish aerial reconnaissance data and from retrievals from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR), passive microwave, and other satellite instruments

These maps rely on mathematical models that process raw data on the amounts of microwave radiation that reach a variety of satellite sensors from cloud ice content and the land and ocean surfaces below.

Recent Northern Hemisphere snow extent: A comparison of data derived from visible and microwave sensors.

Michaels pointed to record Antarctic ice, which «is at its highest extent measured by the current microwave satellite sounding system» since 1978, according to data from the University of Illinois» Polar Ice Research Center.

That leaves me pretty impressed with the way they've extracted ice extent from the raw microwave data.

Since December 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's polar - orbiting satellites have measured upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen, and Spencer and Christy use this data to calculate the temperature of broad volumes of the atmosphere.

With John Christy he presents the monthly real - world data from the microwave sounding unit satellites that provide the least inaccurate global temperature record we have.

Data is from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, monthly sea ice concentration derived from the passive microwave record (NASA Team algorithm).

The researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.

Figure is based on daily arctic sea ice extent from passive microwave satellite data (SSM / I).

The primary sources of the post-1972 data are the hemispheric fields of sea - ice concentration from (1) the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC), whose weekly grids (derived primarily from satellite data) span the period 1972 - 1994, and (2) the satellite passive - microwave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and othermicrowave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and otherMicrowave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and otherMicrowave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and others, 1999).

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR - 2 sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st - Water (GCOM - W1) satellite.

GTTA are represented by data from satellite microwave sensing units (MSU) for the period 1980 — 2008 and from radiosondes (RATPAC) for 1958 — 2008.

Our estimate is based on a statistical way using data from satellite microwave sensor.

Except when satellites are inferring temperature from microwave sounding units, in which case the fixed locations on the surface taking direct measurements with thermometers have had their real data manipulated to achieve a desired result.

Note: The Sea Ice Index input data comes from the passive microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002microwave instrument on the DMSP satellites, but IMS uses the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR - E) instrument on the Aqua satellite from 2002 to 2011.