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How the current Southwestern North American megadrought is affecting Earth's upper atmosphere
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
More than 30 years ago, Chester Gardner of UIUC's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chiao-Yao She of Colorado State University's Department ...
Kilometer-scale modeling better reflects the relationship between land and precipitation
Dec 06, 2022 (SPX)
Previous studies have shown that kilometer-scale dynamical downscaling models (DDMs) capture precipitation characteristics more realistically than DDMs operatin...
China's two meteorological satellites put into operation
Dec 05, 2022 (XNA)
The trial operation of the two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), began in June this year. They will provide observation data and applicatio...
NASA to cancel GeoCarb Mission, expands greenhouse gas portfolio
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
Newer options to make key greenhouse gas measurements are emerging that were not previously available for the agency when considering GeoCarb. For example, NASA...
Sidus Space receives NOAA Tier 1 License
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
"Securing the NOAA Tier 1 license, which has the fewest conditions under a streamlined regulatory regime that came into effect in 2020, is an important mileston...
NASA responds to Independent Review of Earth System Observatory
Dec 02, 2022 (SPX)
The independent review board report examined the technical concepts developed so far for robustness as well as the ability to satisfy the mission's essential re...
Diamonds and X-rays open a new window into the Earth's inner core
Nov 29, 2022 (SPX)
It may be surprising, but we do not have much information about the center of the planet that we live on. One can dig down a few kilometers, and volcanoes and p...
Locked and loaded
Nov 29, 2022 (ESA)
MTG-I1 has been at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana since mid-October being readied for liftoff. Over these last weeks, the satellite's functionality has bee...
Physicist strikes gold, solving 50-year lightning mystery
Nov 25, 2022 (SPX)
When you consider that each lighting strike travels at more than 320,000 kilometres per hour, that's a massive amount of electricity. Ever wondered about lightn...
Dabeeo partners with Maxar to expand the global satellite data analysis market
Nov 24, 2022 (SPX)
The satellite data analysis market is expanding rapidly in line with the advancement of space industry technologies, which are drawing attention as of late. Dab...
NASA satellite precipitation data combined with Air Force weather system
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
The list of data users now includes the U.S. Air Force's 557th Weather Wing. For the first time, the Air Force meteorology unit has integrated the Integrated Mu...
NOAA's GOES-U completes thermal vacuum testing
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
The GOES-R program is a collaborative effort between NOAA and NASA. NASA builds and launches the satellites for NOAA, which operates them and distributes their ...
Satellites cast critical eye on coastal dead zones
Nov 23, 2022 (SPX)
"Understanding where these dead zones are and how they may change over time is the first crucial step to mitigating these critical problems. But it is not easy ...
Lockheed Martin, NVIDIA to build digital twin of current global weather conditions for NOAA
Nov 21, 2022 (SPX)
The two companies expect to fully integrate and demonstrate one of the variable data pipelines - sea surface temperature -- by September 2023, one year after in...
Metaspectral raises $4.7M to launch fusion, a cloud-based AI platform
Nov 17, 2022 (SPX)
The company plans to use this investment to scale up its team to support the continued development and refinement of the Fusion platform which is set to publicl...
China launches Yaogan 34 remote sensing satellite
Nov 17, 2022 (XNA)
The Yaogan 34 03 satellite, carried by a Long March 4C rocket, successfully entered its planned orbit. This remote sensing satellite will be used in areas such ...
Microsoft and Planet to provide AI and satellite data for African climate projects
Nov 17, 2022 (SPX)
Through this program, Africa-based data scientists will have access to Planet satellite imagery from across the African continent to inform projects, as nominat...
Tenchijin develops a land surface temperature product with next level resolution and frequency
Nov 14, 2022 (SPX)
Conventionally used land surface temperature data is obtained from the low earth orbit satellite because of (1) the superior spatial resolution from satellites ...
Northrop Grumman-built NOAA satellite launches with enhanced data tracking
Nov 14, 2022 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman designed and built JPSS-2 to increase the timeliness and accuracy of climate and weather data patterns which support more timely decision makin...
China sends multirole satellite into orbit
Nov 11, 2022 (XNA)
The State-owned space contractor said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 6:52 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province and tra...
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