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The aim of the competition is to get competitors to build a model of one or more of EUMETSAT's weather satellites in Minecraft, or to be creative and design their own satellite from scratch.

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Eventually, Jenkins says, Saildrone could have enough drone boats to be able to predict the world's weather with more precision than traditional satellites — something that private companies in shipping, oil, and plenty of other industries would surely want.

Saildrone says that it could eventually have enough drone boats to predict the world's weather with more precision than traditional satellites — something that private companies in shipping, oil, and plenty of other industries would surely want.

Using a wide array of data from sensors in the soil along with satellite imagery and weather forecasts, the company designed a «personalized» irrigation system for each block of vines, greatly reducing water consumption and increasing output.

You would probably just consult the weather report in the newspaper or on TV, complete with satellite photographs of the entire nation.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says proposed spending cuts in Congress could lead to big problems with the nation's weather satellites.

NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.

The United States filled a crucial gap in its weather - forecasting arsenal when it launched its latest geostationary satellite on March 1.

Susan Solomon and colleagues at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration combined satellite measurements and weather balloon data to track changes in the concentration of water vapour 16 kilometres up in the stratosphere, between the 1980s and today.

It's an effort to replace government - built satellite systems that collect and then share data with much cheaper privately owned systems, which in turn collect and sell weather, climate and other kinds of needed information to governments and private customers around the world.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

Atmospheric scientists are analyzing data from weather balloons and satellites for clues to how the ozone will fare when sunlight — a third factor in ozone loss — returns to the Arctic.

It turns out that the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space - weather satellite with a controversial past, is answering those questions right now, says Stephen Kane, an exoplanet scientist at San Francisco State University in California.

The result is «a nearly 100 percent chance» of a gap in weather and climate data used by NOAA and the military, Glackin said, because the JPSS - 1 satellite won't be ready to replace its predecessor, the NPP satellite that launched last month, before it stops functioning.

About 1,300 active satellites wreathe the globe in a crowded nest of orbits, providing worldwide communications, GPS navigation, weather forecasting and planetary surveillance.

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellitIn an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellitin its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.

Commercial satellite services — communication, navigation, and weather forecasts — generated more than $ 56 billion for the United States in 2004 alone.

«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 Program.

Taking a cue from weather forecasters, researchers combine satellite measurements and models in attempt to predict volcanic activity

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain dowIn a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain dowin complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

NASA's Terra satellite caught this true - color picture on January 24 in a moment of clear weather between two major snowstorms that hit North America's eastern coast.

It is more sensitive than other weather radar satellites, in part because it comes equipped with a stronger transmitter and a larger antenna at 1.85 metres long.

So in 2007 he started Forensic Weather Consultants, which offers meteorological snooping to local lawyers, providing expert analysis of weather data and satellite imagery.

Meanwhile, GOLD's position 22,000 miles above Earth will give it the chance to track changes in the ionosphere as they move across the globe, similar to how a weather satellite tracks a storm.

CubeSats are ideally poised for studying space storms in the lower areas of the atmosphere, which are too high for weather balloons and too low for larger satellites to survive.

The ionosphere is both shaped by waves from the atmosphere below and uniquely responsive to the changing conditions in space, conveying such space weather into observable, Earth - effective phenomena — creating the aurora, disrupting communications signals, and sometimes causing satellite problems.

An earlier study based on maps of the Antarctic ice produced by American weather satellites, by Joe Jacka and colleagues at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart, Tasmania, showed a similar decline in Antarctic sea ice.

Comprehensive analysis of satellite weather data shows that these are indeed regions where significant reductions in storm activity are detected during the rainy season.

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.

But ground - based coronagraphs have their own advantages — while they can only observe the sun in the day during clear weather, they can return data almost instantly, and at a much higher time resolution than satellite instruments.

Tools for forecasting extreme weather have advanced in recent decades, but researchers and engineers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to enhance radars, satellites and supercomputers to further lengthen warning times for tornadoes and thunderstorms and to better determine hurricane intensity and forecast floods.

The specific goal of releasing space - weather data from national - security assets such as GPS satellites is to enable broad scientific community engagement in enhancing space - weather model validation and improvements in space - weather forecasting and situational awareness.

Lapenta foresees a day in the next decade when the increasing capabilities of new radars and satellites will be coupled with an evolving generation of finely detailed weather - prediction models running in real time on computers at speeds exceeding a quintillion computations a second.

While the ongoing research uses ground - based lightning detection networks, the UAH team is also working on being able to use lightning counts reported by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper aboard the GOES - R geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2016.

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.

NOAA's weather satellites supply more than 90 percent of the data that go into daily and long - range forecasts, and they are critical in providing alerts of severe weather potential multiple days in advance.

In the world's poorest places, the movements and prosperity of people can be traced by the appearance of electric lights, which is recorded by US weather satellites.

She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.

«Historically, such weather conditions slow down the summer ice loss, but we still got down to essentially a tie for second lowest in the satellite record.»

WEATHER forecasts in the southern hemisphere have improved by up to 10 per cent as a result of the detailed information about winds provided by the European Space Agency's ERS - 1 satellite.

A U.S. Senate spending panel has endorsed a «really bold and somewhat controversial» shift in how the U.S. government builds weather and climate science satellites.

This phenomenon may have important implications for space weather and may play an important role in the acceleration and scattering of electrons and ions by these waves that can cause problems ranging from minor anomalies to the complete failure of critical satellites.

U.S. satellite data since 1979 has revealed that the troposphere — the weather - bearing layer of our atmosphere that extends more than seven miles up — warmed the most, by roughly 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, in the middle latitudes.

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.

Plagued by cost overruns on its own satellites, NOAA has been pressured by Congress to explore commercial weather satellites, which included a mandate for the commercial weather pilot in its 2016 appropriations.

A NASA satellite mission launched to watch the Earth «breathe» has revealed some striking patterns in how the planet's carbon flux changes seasonally and with large weather events such as El Niño, with some troubling implications for future climate change.

European satellites might be an option — if they are available and produce data in a format compatible with U.S. weather - forecasting models.

The world has changed radically since the era of the Hindenburg; today's satellite weather forecasts, GPS - tracking, radar, computer - controlled avionics and in - flight management systems have paved the way for this new wave of hybrid airships.

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.

For my research in climate science, I use a satellite to measure physical and optical properties of clouds with the view to further improve weather and climate models.