Sentences with phrase «weather satellite programs»

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a plan that would shift $ 1.6 billion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to NASA for the space agency to build and manage four weather satellite programs.

Not exact matches

Shelby signaled potential increased spending for NOAA's satellite programs used to prepare weather prediction models and advance weather forecasting capabilities.

NOAA's two major satellite programs relating to weather forecasting — the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system — would be allotted $ 775.8 million and $ 518 million respectively, as requested.

Aquarius must compete with other NOAA programs for a slice of the agency's annual budget of about $ 5.1 billion, most of it devoted to weather and satellite studies.

«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 Pprogram director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology ProgramProgram.

For years, concern about NOAA's troubled polar satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve weather data.

«Space - weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades,» said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

The STS - 111 aircraft, which is still in prototype, is in essence a worm - like weather balloon that undulates through the Earth's lower atmosphere, guided by satellite or ground communications or programmed to operate autonomously.

The PFO program is made up of two new polar orbiting weather satellites (JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4) that will ensure continuity of data.

The budget asks for $ 2 billion to push forward with the next generation of weather satellites, including $ 380 million to begin to develop a Polar Follow - On satellite program, designed to fill the data gap between the current Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite with NASA and the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), of which the first satellite is scheduled to launch in early 2017.

The fate of two further planned polar satellites, JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4, remain uncertain in the proposal, which says NOAA will obtain cost savings in the program by «better reflecting the actual risk of a gap in polar satellite coverage,» along with opening up more opportunities for startup commercial weather satellites to provide data.

With technological advances in night vision goggles, satellite tracking and terrain warning systems, and a Web - based national database available to all medical helicopter programs when the weather is not suited for flying, «safety has greatly improved, «Holdren said.

Worth a collective $ 22 billion in estimated lifecycle costs, the satellite programs are vital to NOAA's mission of providing weather forecast data to scientists on the ground.

NPP serves as a bridge mission from NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) of satellites to the next - generation Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program that will also collect weather and climate data.

Some programs were huge, mobilizing cooperation among a dozen or more nations to provide data from weather stations, research ships, and (by far the most expensive) satellites to monitor temperatures, clouds, ocean currents, ice sheets and more.

From gauging the interference of clouds on communications reliability, to the impact of solar activity on satellites to measuring how the Earth's wobble affects military targeting, AER has played a key role in supporting the weather risk management needs of a wide range of government programs and operations, including:

John Christy, the scientist and interviewee on whose work this latter claim is based, seems to have forgotten that he had written in a US Climate Change Science Program report: «This significant discrepancy [between lower and upper atmosphere warming] no longer exists because errors in the satellite and radiosonde [weather balloon instrument] data have been identified and corrected.

Some claim that these sums pale by comparison with the aggregate global spending on climate and weather related research, which may be true if you include all the satellite programs, radar, and other ground - based sensing capabilities.