Sentences with phrase «radar observations from»

His research focuses on understanding the interactions of ice, ocean and climate, in particular using imaging radar observations from satellites and airplanes to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica, Greenland and Patagonia will respond to climate change and affect global sea level.

The effort uses innovative ARM radar observations from the MC3E field campaign to evaluate a series of high - resolution simulations, which results in an improved understanding of cloud transitions and how to diagnose these transitions in models.

Twenty years ago, radar observations from Earth revealed small, highly reflective areas close to Mercury's poles, suggesting the presence of ice.

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The team is already using a preliminary shape model, produced from radar observations of the asteroid.

Radar observations by the U.S. Air Force and by amateur hobbyists revealed that after each commercial satellite was deployed, an additional small object flew far away from the jettisoned rocket booster, only to later turn around and fly back.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Program.

EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.

Visible light can't pierce Venus's thick shroud of clouds, so most of what astronomers know about the planet's surface comes from observations in radar and other wavelengths.

From the Tongan island's beginning, it was tracked by monthly, high - resolution satellite observations, both with optical sensors and radar, which sees through clouds.

Data comes from various sources, including observations, weather stations at airports, Doppler radar and satellite imagery, National Weather Service bulletins, and even tidal gages.

But previous radar observations viewed the apparent lakes at an angle, and therefore did not see bright radar glints reflected back from their surface, leaving open the possibility that the features were dry lake beds or patches of soot.

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

From satellite observations such as radar interferometry, Rignot and his colleagues conclude a common cause underlies the retreat of West Antarctica's largest glaciers, including Pine Island Glacier, known for cleaving massive icebergs, and its neighbor, Thwaites Glacier.

Over the three months that followed the initial detection, the technique was able to obtain radar echoes from Chandrayaan - 1 seven more times, including during follow - up observations made by the powerful Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

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.

On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).

«Convective cloud vertical velocity and mass - flux characteristics from radar wind profiler observations during GoAmazon2014 / 5.»

Radar observations are unusual in astronomy because they aren't just about picking up signals from the universe around us.

Rainfall rates derived from satellite data have a long legacy in operational weather forecasting because their information complements ground observations such as weather radar and rain gauges.

A study using Earth Remote Sensing satellite radar interferometry (EERS - 1 and -2) observations from 1992 through 2011 finds «a continuous and rapid retreat of the grounding lines of Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith, and Kohler» Glaciers, and the authors conclude that «this sector of West Antarctica is undergoing a marine ice sheet instability that will significantly contribute to sea level rise in decades to centuries to come» (Rignot et al. 2014).

If someone gives away a short - term forecast, with help from observations, radar, sat and breeze sniffing, no probs with 70 %, though I'd prefer conversational English.

Scientists from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg Institute of Geography and from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Gophysique de l'Environnement in Grenoble, France, used radar data from satellites such as ESA's Envisat and observations of ice thickness from airborne surveys in a complex model to demonstrate, for the first time, how the buttressing role of the ice shelves is being compromised as the shelves decline.

«Cloud vertical distribution from combined surface and space radar — lidar observations at two Arctic atmospheric observatories.»

A comparison to observations (gauge and radar data) shows that the high - resolution (3 km) model generates better rainfall distributions on time scales from monthly to hourly than the coarse - resolution (9 km) model, especially along the west slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

For several years the CERSAT has been providing sea ice maps derived from various scatterometers (microwave radar) on board earth observation satellites (ERS - 1, ERS - 2, ADEOS - 1 or QuikSCAT).

Over the sea ice field the observations include: sea ice freeboard height and hence sea ice thickness from radar altimetry; sea ice surface temperature and sea ice drift from respectively infrared radiometer and imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions.

They expected to find a decline in ice thickness when they embarked on a study of radar observations of 402 lakes near Barrow in Alaska from the European earth resources satellites ERS - 1 and ERS - 2.

Matrosov S. Y., C. G. Schmitt, M. Maahn and G. de Boer (December 2017): Atmospheric Ice Particle Shape Estimates from Polarimetric Radar Measurements and In Situ Observations.

Recent observations from UK sites, and recent radar and satellite imagery.

«The differences between sea water temperature reported in the Log of Ship's Weather Observations and specially observed sea surface temperature were studied for 6826 pairs of observations taken in the Pacific Ocean from 3 Military Sea Transport Service ships and 9 U.S. Navy Radar Picket ships during 92 diffObservations and specially observed sea surface temperature were studied for 6826 pairs of observations taken in the Pacific Ocean from 3 Military Sea Transport Service ships and 9 U.S. Navy Radar Picket ships during 92 diffobservations taken in the Pacific Ocean from 3 Military Sea Transport Service ships and 9 U.S. Navy Radar Picket ships during 92 different trips.

Compiled information about flights from flight plans, pilot reports, radar, and observations.