Sentences with phrase «studies from aircraft»

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And the European Union, perhaps still smarting from the mothballing of the Anglo - French Concorde in 2003, spent $ 7 million ($ 9.8 million) on the 36 - month Long - Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (LAPCAT) study, examining the possibilities of producing engines for aircraft that could far exceed the speed of sound.

He narrowly survived a test ride in the back of an out - of - control Phantom F - 4 fighter while studying ways to stop the aircraft's treacherous handling from killing pilots in Vietnam.

The study uses data from two NASA missions — Operation IceBridge, which measures ice thickness and gravity from aircraft, and Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, which uses sonar and gravity instruments to map the shape and depth of the seafloor close to the ice front.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

You can do these studies from space, but this is 1,000 times cheaper, and 10 times cheaper than using a big aircraft like those NASA typically has flown around.

In the study, the scientists compared the recent aircraft data with aircraft data gathered from 1958 to 1961 using U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance flights.

In a study conducted in the region two years prior to when Matthew's trekked across the Caribbean Sea, the research team in the Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science deployed 55 aircraft ocean instruments from the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration's WP - 3D aircraft.

Hu will use the tunnel as part of a $ 663,000 grant from NASA to study icing of aircraft wings, part of a $ 360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study icing of wind turbine blades and part of a $ 20,000 seed grant from Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology to develop new technology to study aircraft icing.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

In another study, PNNL researchers figured out how to calculate certain cloud properties by combining data collected from instruments on the ground rather than relying upon research aircraft that collect data as they fly.

New study of Cardiology of Mainz University Medical Center identifies mechanisms responsible for vessel damage resulting from aircraft noise...

He has now updated his research using data from previous studies that relied on satellite and aircraft measurements of emissions above oil and gas fields.

«In contrast, most published aircraft studies reported less than 5 percent leakage from production and processing,» Schwietzke said.

«Howarth raises the legitimate argument that aircraft studies represent snapshots in time and space,» but his conclusion that satellite data from a single study is the best data that exists does not represent current scientific consensus, Schwietzke said.

Richard Loftis August 14 - October 15, 2000 This selection of work from Lee's Summit, Missouri, photographer Richard Loftis draws from his diverse essays on Vietnam, classic aircraft, and figural studies.

This presented a unique opportunity to study the effects... Comparing changes in the daily temperature range showed that the absence of dimming from aircraft pollution alone made a marked difference to the temperature.

Alaska Arctic Tundra CH4 Flux Study — Impacts of AGW / CC Published 8 - Jan 2018 Estimating regional - scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska Conclusions Analysis of CH4 column enhancements supplemented by simulated atmospheric transport allowed us to estimate the monthly - mean CH4 fluxes from our study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 17Study — Impacts of AGW / CC Published 8 - Jan 2018 Estimating regional - scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska Conclusions Analysis of CH4 column enhancements supplemented by simulated atmospheric transport allowed us to estimate the monthly - mean CH4 fluxes from our study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 17study domain (50 — 75 N, 130 — 170 W).

Mike: I started studying global warming since 1998, the same year I soloed in a single engine aircraft during the central California El Nino from hell because my experience as a geologist and my newly acquired life saving skills as a weatherman.

A recent study highlights results obtained from an aircraft ocean survey that targeted a large warm core eddy in the eastern Caribbean Sea, where upper ocean measurements are crucial to understanding the complexities of heat and moisture transfer during the passage of tropical cyclones.

The FAst - physics System TEstbed and Research (FASTER) Project has constructed case studies from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility's Southern Great Plain site during the RACORO aircraft campaign to facilitate research on model representation of boundary - layer clouds.

Early studies were ground based at high altitude, from weather balloons and high - flying aircraft.

Researchers noted during a webinar presentation of the study's preliminary findings in July 2017 that it was the first time long - term continuous sampling of methane from natural gas activities had occurred, and that most existing studies that use aircraft data only sample for a limited number of days, usually only one to two, and often show a higher leakage rate.

A study for the European Commission found that aircraft travel currently causes from 3.5 to 7.4 percent of global warming emissions.

The study's authors, led by researchers from Harvard University, used atmospheric measurements of methane — a greenhouse gas at least 25 times as powerful at trapping heat as CO2 — from aircraft and stationary towers.

Original: «The quickest way to cut emissions from aircraft could be better flight management rather than new technology, an Oxford University study has found.

that they studied photographs taken by military aircraft from 1947 and satellite images from 1973 to identify almost 700 seasonal networks of ponds, channels and braided streams flowing from all sides of the continent, as close as 600 km to the South Pole and at altitudes of 1,300 metres.

Prior to his studies in Psychology, Normand worked as an aircraft maintenance officer within the Canadian Forces and holds an Electrical Engineering degree from RMC.