Sentences with phrase «new observational instrument»

The weather was fine and the clear blue skies seemed a good omen for a start of the new observational instrument.

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Now, thanks to a combination of new instruments and refined observational techniques, the missing reel of the universe's story is about to be slotted in — presented in the crackle and hiss of giant radio waves.

With the availability of multiple years of data from new and improved passive instruments launched as part of the Earth Observing System (EOS) and active instruments belonging to the A-Train constellation (L'Ecuyer and Jiang 2010), a more complete observational record of ERB variations and the underlying processes is now possible.

Additionally, observational programs are faced with the challenge of sustaining historical time series by sampling with seemingly obsolete instruments in order to maintain comparability over the decades while also utilizing the newest technologies.

From its home within DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, ARM organized around a task that was both big and new: To establish, over time, a series of instrumented platforms that would provide an observational basis for studying the Earth's climate.

«While the new satellite instruments discussed in this study have clearly advanced the state - of - the - art in cloud - radiation observational capabilities, there is a critical need to extend the length of these records over multiple decades and further improve their accuracy in order to quantify how clouds are changing in a warmer climate and how cloud changes impact the Earth's radiation budget.

Standard observational practices (such as the use of a Stevenson screen to house the instruments) were in place at most sites in Queensland and South Australia by the mid-1890s, but in New South Wales and Victoria many sites were not standardised until between 1906 and 1908.