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Arctic and mid-latitudes in complex weather interplay
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
Assessing such far-flung affects of Arctic sea ice change from observations is hindered by, amongst other things, the shortness of reliable observational data s...
Scientists share various perspectives on ozone layer recovery
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
While these different compounds each release either reactive chlorine or bromine, the two active ozone-destroying ingredients, during a series of chemical react...
Air Force Secretary unveils final DMSP satellite at SMC
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
"This display represents a nearly 60-year history of environmental monitoring success by a satellite constellation that continues to provide crucial weather inf...
APL Monitoring Instrument Rides into Space
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
The JANUS integration and monitoring platform flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle on Dec. 12. The device, about the size of a car battery, will prov...
'Smoke rings' in the ocean spotted from space
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The ocean is full of eddies, swirling motions some tens to hundreds of kilometres across, which mix the water and carry it across the average currents. The 'smo...
Space Mystery Solved by Student Satellite
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The results from the new study indicate energetic electrons in Earth's inner radiation belt - primarily near its inner edge - are created by cosmic rays born fr...
Lockheed Martin strengthens weather forecasting with second next-generation weather satellite
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
NOAA's next weather satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series, GOES-S, left its Colorado home where it was built and is now ...
NASA's CATS concludes successful mission on Space Station
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
During its mission, NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) lidar provided measurements of the vertical structure of clouds and aerosols, including volcani...
First global maps of traits that drive vegetation growth
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high-tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant t...
Understanding the climate impact of natural atmospheric particles
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Their study, published in Nature Geoscience, shows that the cooling effect of natural atmospheric particles is greater during warmer years and could therefore s...
UK-built satellite shines first light on air pollution
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
The prime contractor for the development and manufacture of the satellite, which is part of Europe's world-leading environmental monitoring programme - Copernic...
Sentinel-5P brings air pollution into focus
Dec 06, 2017 (ESA)
This new mission promises to image air pollutants in more detail than ever before. And, while these first results demonstrate the sophistication of the satellit...
Haze pollution affects satellite cloud detection
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Dr. TAN Saichun, Ms. ZHANG Xiao, Prof. SHI Guangyu, and co-authors from Institute of Atmospheri...
French NGO helps African mums shake off AIDS stigma
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
The women, some of whom were infected after being raped on the perilous journey across land and sea to Europe, complain of the triple burden of disease, stigma ...
OGC seeks public comment on CDB Multi-spectral Imagery Extension
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
OGC's CDB standard defines datasets that represent the visual appearance of objects - from the terrain to buildings and trees - in the electromagnetic spectrum ...
NASA finds VA metro area is sinking unevenly
Nov 29, 2017 (JPL)
Hampton Roads has one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise - the combined effects of sinking land and rising seas - along the U.S. East Coast, about ...
Heavy nitrogen molecules reveal planetary-scale tug-of-war
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
Yeung and colleagues at Rice, UCLA, Michigan State University and the University of New Mexico counted rare molecules in the atmosphere that contain only heavy ...
Forty years of Meteosat
Nov 29, 2017 (ESA)
Weather - and particularly extreme weather - affects everything we do. Being able to see the whole disc of Earth allows forecasters to see developing weather sy...
China launches remote sensing satellites in multiple launches
Nov 27, 2017 (XNA)
The satellites has entered the preset orbit and Saturday's launching mission was proclaimed a success. The satellites will conduct electromagnetic probes and ot...
NASA's TSIS-1 keeps an eye on Sun's power over ozone
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
Currently, several NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites track the amount of ozone in the upper atmosphere and the solar en...
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