The Palmer Drought Severity Index, which is a measure of soil moisture
using precipitation measurements and rough estimates of changes in evaporation, has shown that from 1900 to 2002, the Sahel region of Africa has been experiencing harsher drought conditions.
Not exact matches
They just have
precipitation measurements at the airport, which you can't really
use for snow data,» he said.
Numerical modeling of
precipitation measurements was conducted
using a supercomputer nicknamed Cheyenne at the NCAR - Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
Using U.S. Weather Service data on
precipitation, radiosonde
measurements of CAPE and lightning - strike counts from the National Lightning Detection Network at the University of Albany, State University of New York (UAlbany), they concluded that 77 percent of the variations in lightning strikes could be predicted from knowing just these two parameters.
To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues
used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall
Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture,
precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.
«The proxy records
used in this study appear to contradict other studies that have
used direct observations of
precipitation from rain gauges... All else being equal, I would trust direct rainfall
measurements over proxy records.»
Earth Science Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment AirMOSS Aqua Aura Aquarius CALIPSO CARVE Center for Earth and Climate Science Education CloudSat DISCOVER - AQ Earth to Sky - Building Climate Literacy for Informal Educators: Expanding the Earth to Sky Partnership (EPOESS NNH09CF00C) Girl Scouts Earth Science Patch Global
Precipitation Measurement (GPM) The GLOBE Program GLOBE at Langley GRACE ICESat - 2 Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) MY NASA DATA NASA Climate Day / Earth Ambassadors NASA Know Your Earth Campaign NOVA Labs Ocean Surface Topography Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 SAGE III on ISS S'COOL: Student Cloud Observations On - Line SMAP Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Teaching Inquiry
using NASA Earth System Science (TINES) Terra
For the temperature,
precipitation and drought (PHDI) curves, 9 - month YTD through September
measurements from NOAA were
used.
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Measurements from several different satellite instruments are
used to estimate effects of energetic particle
precipitation (EPP) on NOx (NO + NO2) in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere from 1992 to 2005.
Uses a time series of hydrographic and stable oxygen isotope (δ18O)
measurements collected at a near - coastal site in Marguerite Bay to quantify the prevalence of meteoric freshwater (glacial melt plus
precipitation) separately from sea ice melt
Using U.S. Weather Service data on
precipitation, radiosonde
measurements of CAPE and lightning - strike counts from the National Lightning Detection Network at the University of Albany, State University of New York (UAlbany), they concluded that 77 percent of the variations in lightning strikes could be predicted from knowing just these two parameters.
Zhanqing Li, lead author of a paper published in Nature Geoscience and University of Maryland atmospheric scientist, says, «
Using a 10 - year dataset of atmospheric
measurements, we have uncovered the long - term, net impact of aerosols on cloud height and thickness and the resulting changes in
precipitation frequency and intensity.»