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International Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Data Goes Public
Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)
The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public. This new r...
GPM Mission's How-to Guide for Making Global Rain Maps
Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)
In a data-processing room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, racks of high-powered computers are making a set of maps. They're not th...
Four Decades of Sea Ice From Space: The Beginning
Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)
One of the most visible signs of climate change in recent years was not even visible at all until a few decades ago. The sea ice cap that covers the Arctic Ocea...
Algal Growth a Blooming Problem Space Station to Help Monitor
Sep 03, 2014 (SPX)
The green stuff that clouds up fish tanks - it's not just an aesthetic annoyance. In fact, if you've been watching recent news of algal bloom concerns in Lake E...
NASA Radar System Surveys Napa Valley Quake Area
Sep 02, 2014 (JPL)
NASA scientists are planning to conduct an airborne survey of earthquake fault displacements in the Napa Valley area of Northern California, using a sophisticat...
How might El Nino affect wildfires in California?
Sep 02, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists and natural resource managers are closely watching the potential development of El Nino as it might increase rainfall in California and bring relief ...
Unique Database of Satellite Images of Russia Exceeds 3.5 Mln Items
Sep 02, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
A database of images of Russia made from space has reached more than 3.5 million pictures, a representative of Russia's SCANEX Research and Development Center t...
NASA Begins Hurricane Mission with Global Hawk Flight to Cristobal
Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)
The first of two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft landed at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, on Aug. 27 after surveying Hurricane Cristo...
New Earth-Observing Instrument Makes Successful Balloon Flight
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
In New Mexico on the morning of Aug. 18, a high-altitude balloon successfully carried the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) instrument to an alt...
Sentinel-1 poised to monitor motion
Aug 28, 2014 (ESA)
Although it was only launched a few months ago and is still being commissioned, the new Sentinel-1A radar satellite has already shown that it can be used to gen...
NASA Rainfall Satellite Out Of Fuel, but Continues to Provide Data
Aug 26, 2014 (SPX)
Pressure readings from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission's (TRMM) fuel tank on July 8 indicated that the satellite was nearly at the end of its fuel suppl...
Analyzing Snowfall Data for GPM
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
Snow awes and annoys, brings nostalgia or abhorrence. For Jorel Torres, snow makes him curious-so much that he studies it. For the past ten weeks, Torres compar...
NASA Picks Top Earth Data Challenge Ideas, Opens Call for Climate Apps
Aug 25, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has selected four ideas from the public for innovative uses of climate projections and Earth-observing satellite data. The agency also has announced a foll...
Ice sheet highs, lows and loss
Aug 25, 2014 (ESA)
Measurements from ESA's CryoSat mission have been used to map the height of the huge ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica and show how they are chan...
How much do climate patterns influence predictability across the United States?
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
In our post last month, we introduced and defined several climate patterns other than ENSO that impact United States winter climate. But how useful are these cl...
NMR Using Earth's Magnetic Field
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it ha...
NOAA analysis reveals significant land cover changes in US coastal regions
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
A new NOAA nationwide analysis shows that between 1996 and 2011, 64,975 square miles in coastal regions--an area larger than the state of Wisconsin--experienced...
New Satellite Data Will Help Farmers Facing Drought
Aug 19, 2014 (JPL)
About 60 percent of California is experiencing "exceptional drought," the U.S. Drought Monitor's most dire classification. The agency issued the same warning to...
Snow Cover on Arctic Sea Ice Has Thinned 30 to 50 Percent
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last...
DigitalGlobe Announces Launch of WorldView-3
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe has announced the successful launch of WorldView-3, the company's sixth and most advanced super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite. The...
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