Sentences with phrase «with ground observations»

Drought experiments, where a roof is built under the forest canopy to reduce rainfall, show that most forest trees survive a single year's intense drought, in agreement with the ground observations in the 2005 drought, but can't persist with repeated years of drought.
That's easy, he can use Modis LST (for example) to do that in conjuction with ground observations.

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While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.
Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the University of Rochester who travels regularly to the Antarctic, said ground observations would never tell you the full story of what's going on with ice sheets in that part of the world.
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This observation and assertion is grounded on the clear understanding and full knowledge of the Traditional NDC Members and even the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC, that the Parliamentary Primaries which was held on the 22nd November, 2015 to elect a candidate was fraught and marred with violence, intimidations, fraud and false accusations spearheaded by Sam George, one of the candidates, for which reason the result of that elections could not be said or taken to represent the Will and aspirations of the majority of the NDC membership in the constituency and the country at large.
The white spots would seem to be exposed ice, Brown says, but observations of Ceres with ground - based telescopes don't show any evidence of ice at the bright spots» locations.
All of these capabilities, the AURA team says, will synergize with the observations of Webb, WFIRST and the next - generation 30 - meter observatories on the ground.
By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.
Observations from the ground with HARPS and other facilities will be able to continue even after the end of the space mission.
Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.
His latest project — the High Mountain Glacial Watershed Program — blends the best of modern technology with on - the - ground observation to mitigate the coming challenges associated with glacial lake outbursts.
They determined that it was a different species from the following observations: the parts above ground are a dark purple, the filament of the male (staminate) flower is no higher than the anther, and the style of the female (pistillate) flower is club - shaped with multiple papillae.
Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way...
Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way to Earth (Science, vol 330, p 800).
The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.
«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.
«We've never looked at these systems before with the sensitivity of Webb, so it's not unlikely that we could discover lower - mass planets that we weren't sensitive to in previous ground - based observations of these stars,» Hinkley says.
«If we can predict these events with some certainty, hopefully more than minutes, maybe hours before they occur, we collectively can take remedial action,» says David Kendall of the Canadian Space Agency, which is funding the ground - based observation network.
Attempts in September to see the new satellites with large ground - based telescopes were unsuccessful, and final confirmation of their existence will have to await new Hubble observations in mid-February 2006.
French credited modern technology with making the detailed cloud - seeding observations possible, citing the use of ground - based radar as well as radar on UW's King Air research aircraft and multiple flights over the mountains near Boise.
Spacecraft - and ground - based telescopes have tackled that mystery with many observations at various wavelengths and methods.
«We are going to observe Saturn again in May 2017 and hope to investigate the nature of Saturn's rings further by taking advantages of observations with space missions and ground - based telescopes.»
Combining Hubble data with observations from a suite of ground - based and space telescopes, two independent teams found that that the black hole, jets, and newborn stars are all parts of a self - regulating cycle.
«With the results from the WB - 57s and complementary observations from space and other experiments on the ground we have an opportunity to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of the corona.»
«Moreover, high - altitude balloons above 95 percent of the Earth's atmosphere allow for observations in the ultraviolet - and infrared - wavelength bands, which aren't possible with ground - based telescopes.
EWeLiNE combines these data with other atmospheric observations — from ground - based weather stations, radar and satellites — and sophisticated computer models predict power generation over the next 48 hours or so.
NASA and its partners monitor Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.
Pablo Pérez - González, an astrophysics professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and one of several co-investigators on Nørgaard - Nielsen's proposed observation, said they will use Webb to observe about 40 percent of the HUDF area with MIRI, in roughly the same location that ground - based telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope array (VLT) obtained ultra-deep field data.
Malcolm Fridlund, European Space Agency project scientist for the mission, says there are «hundreds of other interesting candidate signals» in the COROT data waiting for painstaking follow - up observations with ground - based telescopes.
The first six weeks of observations recorded by the spacefaring telescope, combined with follow - up studies from the ground, have revealed five previously unknown extrasolar planets — one body roughly the size of Neptune and four low - density versions of Jupiter.
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.
Of Kepler's list of more than 4000 likely candidates from those observations, 2335 have been verified as exoplanets with further analysis or other ground - based observations.
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites, as well as airborne and ground - based observation campaigns.
These assessments offer evidence that on - the - ground studies bringing together biophysical forest observations with socioeconomic factors offer a deeper understanding of the value of tropical forest conservation programs, Aguilar said.
JAXA says the test may pave the way for environmental - observation satellites in low - Earth orbit to send data efficiently to a satellite in geostationary orbit that could act as a communications router that is always in contact with its ground station.
The object was smeared out in ground - based observations, Blair says, but with Hubble you can see the structure that shows the interaction.
To study the process, Brickhouse and her team combined observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with those from ground - based optical telescopes.
Materials known to exist at Pluto's surface from ground - based spectroscopic observations include highly volatile cryogenic ices of N2 and CO, along with somewhat less volatile CH4 ice, as well as H2O and C2H6 ices and more complex tholins that are inert at Pluto surface temperatures.
After a few months of check - out, the team will begin to coordinate observations with telescopes on the ground, including two 100 - metre radio telescopes — in Green Bank, West Virginia, and Effelsberg, Germany, and the 305 - metre Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico.
With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based climate observations, ARM relies heavily on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.
Researchers were stunned by what they saw in SDSS J1531 +3414, and the unique nature of the source spurred the team to do follow - up observations with both ground - and space - based telescopes.
Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.
The scientists compared their findings from the Keck observations with another team's observations made before the comet reached perihelion, using both space - and ground - based telescopes, and found an unexpected difference: After perihelion, the output of HDO was two to three times higher, while the output of H2O remained essentially constant.
Ground - based observations of Titan, the giant planet's largest moon, helped with preparations for the Huygens probe mission early in Cassini's exploration of the Saturn system.
The successful applicant will work with world leading experts in advanced analytical / numerical modelling, analysis of high - resolution observations obtained by cutting - edge ground and space based instruments.
Based on 14 years of radial velocity observations from four ground - based observatories as well as astrometric measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that planets «c» and «d» are inclined by 30 + / - 1 degrees with respect to each other is expected to affect theories of how multi-planet systems evolve.
Beckwith replies it's almost a battle between climate modelers, like David Archer, and researchers with observations on the ground, like Shakhova and here Russian counterparts.
HALCA was launched in 1997 and made astronomical observations in conjunction with ground - based radio telescopes from 14 countries.
With a rover on the ground and an orbiter in the sky both beaming information and observations back to Earth, scientists could have answers.
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