Sentences with phrase «solar radiation monitoring»

Future solar radiation monitoring is planned for NASA's Earth Observing System and the NOAA / DoD National Polar - Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, although in the latter case not at UV wavelengths.

Not exact matches

Computerized monitoring of wind, temperature and solar radiation information measures evaporation to inform the superintendent on water needs to maintain the fairways and greens in top playing condition.

On its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairs.

He explains how German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff decoded what the sun is made of nearly two centuries ago, breaks down the dangers of uv rays, and highlights efforts to monitor solar radiation storms.

Launched in 1991, UARS monitors agents of global warming, such as water vapor and solar radiation.

Not much was said about the other three channels, Band A the total radiation channel out to 100 microns, Band B which monitors the total solar light reflected from the earth (albedo) and Band C which captures the NIR solar reflected out to 4 microns.

Solar radiation should be monitored TOA to surface.

One and a half decades of continuous monitoring of direct solar radiation have provided long - needed information, but this short period of time is but a wink of an eye in the life of the Sun, and a woefully inadequate sample of the full range of its possible behavior.

Still, since we have been able to monitor solar total radiation for only about fifteen years, knowledge of the Schwabe radiation cycle is less than complete.

Detecting and confirming larger - amplitude, longer - period cycles in solar radiation — if they indeed exist — will require reliable continuous solar monitoring, well into the next century.

I came to think of solar radiation as being the ultimate (and only) external forcing of the climate system, which, except for the orbital seasonal changes and the 11 - year sunspot cycle, has been essentially constant over the past several decades of precision solar irradiance monitoring.