Sentences with phrase «on weather balloon»

The Firefox logo has been etched into the lawns in college quads, spray - painted on highway overpasses, baked into pancakes, sent up 100,000 feet on a weather balloon, and crayoned onto countless human faces.

13 Danielle Georgiou, cialis Pizzicato Porno (2013), site videos projected on weather balloons, violin, sound pedal board, speaker, performance and installation (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial).

This is indicated for the last 50 years by radiosondes mounted on weather balloons and for since 1979 (when the first pertinent satellites were launched) by MSU mounted on satellites.

While the satellite dataset has its strengths, unlike thermometers and temperature probes used on weather balloons the Microwave Sounding Units were new, largely untested tools when they were put into space.

Not exact matches

On 19 April, Giles Harrison at the University of Reading in the UK and colleagues used detectors aboard a weather balloon to measure the charge in the ash cloud over Scotland.

Elena Stautzebach launches her daily weather balloon, or radiosonde, which will provide feedback on atmospheric conditions.

In August Sherwood and his collaborators published the results of a study that corrected for the heating effect of direct sunlight on older weather balloons.

«I believe delivery of the sulfide gas into the stratosphere is envisaged either by artillery shell, high - altitude weather balloon or aircraft,» Ian Stimpson, a senior lecturer on geophysics at Keele University, told Earther.

For a week beginning on March 9th we plan to launch a series of space weather balloons equipped with cosmic ray sensors and cameras into the stratosphere above the Arctic Circle.

New Scientific Discovery: Siberian Atmospheric Rivers: Part 4 of 4 / / Published on Mar 1, 2018 A Russian icebreaker in the Arctic sailed from open ocean water into thin sea - ice continuing into thicker sea - ice and sent weather balloons aloft every... Continue reading →

But when neither a balloon, a cuckoo clock, an umbrella, a weather vane, an accordion, a moose head, a yo - yo nor a dartboard looks right on Eeyore's rump, they decide to approach Christopher Robin (Jack Boulter) for help.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

Teachers at Hood River come together on more robust cross-curricular activities rooted in their community, ranging from field trips to the Columbia River Gorge to launching a weather balloon into the Earth's atmosphere.

Be warned — hot air balloon flights are dependent on the weather, so opportunities to ride may be limited during windy or rainy seasons.

Balloon flights are subject to weather conditions on the day and are sometimes cancelled.

Float above the temple - strewn plain of Bagan on an optional balloon ride this morning (weather permitting).

Because of ballooning's reliance on the weather, most bookings are provisional until a few days before the event to ensure that the weather is ideal for your journey.

Some recurring characters including a jokester robot and a longhaired rocksmith (whose van you weather - balloon into the sky every other mission) mark your progress with commentary on the state of humanity against the big purple clouds in the sky.

Game Features (1) 18 fighters based on real history (2) Many of enemy airships, hot - air - balloon and fighters, bombers (3) 40 normal missions and extra 10 custom missions (4) Various weather condition (5) Various terrain maps

Boursier - Mougenot's attention to movement stems from his background in theater.2 Recognizing that he did not wish to be the performer onstage in his art, the artist has developed pieces for stand - in players — amplified beehives, live finches on electric guitars, cherry pits falling onto a drum kit, vacuum cleaners blowing into harmonicas, and helium weather balloons dragging around a tethered microphone.

Six green weather balloon stations sponsored by well - meaning humanitarian / scientific research groups perched on a red landing platform.

Drawing on readily - available objects utilised in daily life, Morrison's composite sculptures begin as disparate Duchampian readymades: weather balloons, bullets, mannequin busts and shopping carts, just to list a few.

And of course, there's the ominously shrinking weather balloon, which seems to loom over us on this spring Saturday morning.

The various images of John F. Kennedy, weather balloons, instruments, and plates, as in the Combines, create a field of association not unlike the deluge of information found in a newspaper or on television.

The same issues have dogged other attempts by climate scientists to glean clues on climate trends from bodies of data collected by satellites and weather balloons for other reasons (not to mention ongoing attempts to discern climate patterns in tree rings, ice layers, and other natural substitutes for thermometers; remember the «hockey stick» debate?).

Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.

To measure the thermal winds, they studied data on the motion of weather balloons at different altitudes in the atmosphere.

But instead they deny the importance of 28 million weather - balloons, call the missing heat a «travesty», they pretend that if you slap enough caveats on the 1990 report and ignore the actual direct quotes they made at the time, then possibly, just maybe, their models are doing OK, and through sheer bad luck 3000 ocean buoys, millions of weather balloons, and 30 years of satellite records are all biased in ways that hides the true genius of the climate models.

They won't admit this is a major point their models have failed on, instead they flat out deny the results from 28 million weather balloons are conclusive.

Studies involving 28 million weather balloons, thousands of satellite recordings, 3,000 ocean buoys, temperature recordings from 50 sites in the US and a 1,000 years of temperature proxies suggest that the Global Climate Models overestimate positive feedback and are based on poor assumptions.

The weather balloon released on Friday morning from the New Orleans office of the NWS measured near all - time record levels of atmospheric moisture, higher than some measurements taken during past hurricanes.

Data often cited by the anti forces generally turn out to be either statistical extrapolation, or they are using data that has been proven wrong (one weather monitoring station on a balloon was found to be too high in the atmosphere, giving cooler results then expected, same with a monitoring station in the ocean that was too deep).

«Good piece on the forever - exciting feeling of launching a weather balloon by @RGSweather in the new @RMetS Young People's edition.

First, they chop up the atmosphere into byte - sized chunks based on input from things like weather balloons and orbiting satellites, and then they run a whole series of mathematical equations to figure out the most likely future state of weather patterns — a process that's hugely computer intensive — indeed, some of the world's most powerful computers are used to forecast the weather.

I do not know the accuracy of the NCEP reanalysis data on upper tropospheric humidity, but the direct measurement of humidity by weather balloons seems preferable to the very indirect determination from satellite data.

John Christy, the scientist and interviewee on whose work this latter claim is based, seems to have forgotten that he had written in a US Climate Change Science Program report: «This significant discrepancy [between lower and upper atmosphere warming] no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde [weather balloon instrument] data have been identified and corrected.

An article published in the Coral Springs Talk on Feb. 8, six days before the shootings, names Hogg as a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and features a documentary he made about astronomy students» efforts to launch a weather balloon and an attached craft into space.