Sentences with phrase «oceanography satellite»

The joint NASA - CNES (French Space Agency) Topex / Poseidon oceanography satellite provides high - precision data on the height of the world's ocean surfaces, a key measure of ocean circulation and heat storage in the ocean.

The latest image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights from the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, dated June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm to cold during the last few months.

This satellite image of Pacific Ocean sea surface heights taken by the NASA / European Ocean Surface Topography Mission / Jason -2 oceanography satellite, captured on June 11, 2010, shows that the tropical Pacific has switched from warm (red) to cold (blue) during the last few months, perhaps foreshadowing a transition from El Niño, to La Niña conditions.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, created the maps by analyzing untapped data streams from NASA's Jason satellite and the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 satellite.

Researchers led by Ian Eisenman, a climatologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, discovered a mismatch between an older and a newer version of the same NASA sea - ice data set that occurred when a satellite sensor was replaced in December 1991.

Weisberg, along with study co-authors John Walsh, Distinguished University Professor of Biological Oceanography, and their research associates and colleagues at USF and at neighboring Florida Water Research Institute, have developed tools for observing, tracking and forecasting red tides using a combination of moored instrumentation, robotic gliders, satellite imagery and computer models.

During those eight years, some 6,000 moonquakes, including dozens not previously detected, rumbled deep within the satellite, say planetary scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Scott Glenn, a Rutgers professor who specializes in physical oceanography, says combining data from satellites and gliders might provide a fuller picture.

Oscar Schofield, a Rutgers University professor of bio-optical oceanography, agrees that satellites are limited, but «they are the only way to provide a global view of the ocean, albeit weighted to the surface.»

Coastal ocean forecasting; variational methods for data assimilation, re-analysis and ocean observing system design; Mesoscale satellite remote sensing; physical - biological interactions on the continental shelf; oceanography of continental shelves.

Lead study author Fernando Paolo, who conducted the research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and is currently based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, unearthed the 1997 - 98 El Niño's outsized impact in West Antarctica while he was mining satellite records to look for short - term factors that impact the growth and thinning of ice shelves.

«Oceanography before, and after, the Advent of Satellites.»

Develop and validate retrieval algorithms for ocean and sea ice parameters from various satellite Earth observation data, which in are used in studies of upper layer mesoscale ocean processes, air - sea - ice interaction, climate change studies and in operational oceanography.

The US CLIVAR POS Panel seeks new panelists with expertise in one or more of the following areas: (a) operational data assimilation, (b) satellite oceanography, (c) emerging technologies / observations, or (d) paleooceanography / paleoclimatology.

Combs, C. L., et al. (2010), An effort to improve marine stratus forecasts using satellite cloud climatologies for the Eureka, CA region, paper presented at the 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Am.

2000 Walter D. Munk, «Oceanography before, and after, the Advent of Satellites.»

Recent progress toward satellite measurements of the global sea surface salinity field, Satellites, Oceanography and Society, D. Halpern, ed., Elsevier Oceanography Series, 63, 367 pp.