Sentences with phrase «satellite era»

We plan to release six new satellite era reconstructions over the next few weeks.

Uses the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS, version v03r03) analysis during satellite era (1986 — 2010) and determines the trends of intensification of tropical cyclones (TC) over all the global basins, except the North Indian Ocean

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occurs.

I had figure it out - as a layman - that current SC24 maximum will allow science to deepen in our Solar System Space weather best understanding, since never before in mankind had we been able to watch and study our star so deep and closely, and this might be first Grand Minima within satellite era.

Now, in 2011, it is probably appropriate to use 1980 as the cut - off, to ensure maximum satellite era coverage and comparisons can be made to polar orbiters more readily.

And even during the relatively short satellite era, two Januaries were warmer.

The discontinuity between 1978 - 1979 is the transition to the passive microwave satellite era.

The limitation to satellite era also means that one can't compare the current high - event frequency period in the North Atlantic to the previous ones, unfortunately.

The hurricane's strongest sustained winds, at 185 mph, blew for more than 65 consecutive hours, something no other tropical cyclone has done in the modern satellite era, which began 50 years ago, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University.

The only warming during the entire satellite era since 1979 was a step warming that followed the super El Nino of 1998.

This would spell an end to the period that researchers across the world and across a wide range of disciplines refer to simply as «the satellite era» — not the time since Sputnik launched, but the decades of high - quality, consistent, and regular data on the global environment from space.

Some scientists said that if the satellite era in their field ended, they would still be able to continue their work.

The so - called Weddell Polynya only once has been observed during the satellite era, namely in the mid-1970s.

Critics of such a link argue that this trend is merely because of better observations since the dawn of the satellite era in the 1970s.

Ice - shelf retreat on the Antarctic Peninsula, has been observed throughout the satellite era — about 50 years.

The 2017 hurricane season got off to an early start, with Tropical Storm Arlene forming in April, only the second April storm in the satellite era.

Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai is the first island of this type to erupt and persist in the modern satellite era, it gives scientists an unprecedented view from space of its early life and evolution.

The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice cover observed over the satellite era is expected to continue throughout the 21st century.

In terms of so - called «Accumulated Cyclone Energy» (ACE), a common measure of the total destructive power of a season's storms, 2013 ranks among the 10 weakest since the dawn of the satellite era in the mid-1960s, said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the Miami - based National Hurricane Center.

This year «will without a doubt» rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center.

Volunteers get to help solve a climate puzzle from far back before the satellite era.

Re # 45, The problem with ice extent / melting of Greenland is that reliable measurements are only available since the satellite era, which is 26 years young.

Since Oct. 20, the daily sea ice extent there has been the second lowest in the satellite era.

The six lowest Arctic sea ice extents in the satellite era have occurred during the past six years.

The curves show the sea level relative to the satellite era (since 1992).

Coumou and his co-authors analyzed atmospheric data from 1979 - 2013, covering the satellite era, which has produced the most robust data.

... Even in the satellite era — the best observed period in Earth's climate history — there are significant uncertainties in key observational datasets.

Instead, Nasa now believes Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai will remain for between six and 30 years, making it the first island of this type to persist in the modern satellite era.

The large structural uncertainties in observations hamper our ability to determine how well models simulate the tropospheric temperature changes that actually occurred over the satellite era.

We only have direct observations of total solar irradiance (TSI) since the beginning of the satellite era and substantial evidence for variations in the level of solar activity (from cosmogenic isotopes or sunspot records) in the past.

When you consider the entire satellite era (1979 to present), signal - to - noise ratios for global - scale changes in lower tropospheric temperature now exceed 5 — even for UAH lower tropospheric temperature data (see...» fact sheet «-RRB-.

But we reject the view that this limits our knowledge of plankton trends to the satellite era (1979 - 86, 1997 - present).

The data shows quite clearly that changes in cloud radiative forcing in the satellite era exceeded greenhouse gas forcing.