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NASA prepares for new science flights above coastal Louisiana
Feb 21, 2020 (JPL)
"Millions of people live on, and live from services provided by, coastal deltas like the Mississippi River Delta. But sea-level rise is causing many major delta...
Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings
Feb 19, 2020 (SPX)
Whereas most previous studies employed single systems for a limited number of MSSWs, a new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sought to verify ...
Ball Aerospace-built Geostationary Air Quality Instrument Launches Successfully
Feb 19, 2020 (SPX)
Once operational in space, GEMS will be the first air quality sensor in geostationary orbit where it will help monitor pollution events in the Korean peninsula ...
The atmosphere as global sensor
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
No physical sensor or aggregation of electronic sensors, however, can continuously and globally detect disturbances that take place on or above the earth's surf...
Saudi Arabia shivers in worst cold spell since 2016
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
In Tarif, on the border with Jordan, the temperature hit minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the weather services. It dropped to minus...
Space key to wetland conservation
Feb 06, 2020 (ESA)
Celebrated annually on 2 February, World Wetlands Day raises global awareness about the vital role of wetlands for our planet, paying particular attention to we...
Deep learning accurately forecasts heat waves, cold spells
Feb 05, 2020 (SPX)
Ironically, Rice's self-learning "capsule neural network" uses an analog method of weather forecasting that computers made obsolete in the 1950s. During trainin...
ECOSTRESS mission sees plants 'waking up' from space
Feb 05, 2020 (JPL)
When the Sun comes up, they kick into gear, absorbing sunlight to convert carbon dioxide they draw from the air and water they draw from the soil into food, a p...
Aerosols have an outsized impact on extreme weather
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
Over the past 50 years, the occurrence of extremely cold days has decreased throughout Europe and northern Eurasia, which includes Russia. Combining long-term o...
The fingerprints of paddy rice in atmospheric methane concentration dynamics
Feb 04, 2020 (SPX)
Methane is one of the major greenhouse gases. It has a lifetime of 12.4 years and its global warming potential is approximately 86 times higher than carbon diox...
January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service
Feb 04, 2020 (AFP)
Across a band of countries stretching from Norway to Russia, temperatures were an unprecedented 6C above the same 30-year benchmark, Copernicus Climate Change S...
Artificial intelligence to rebuild Iraq via second phase of the UNOSAT challenge
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
The aim of the contest is to put artificial intelligence and Earth Observation data at the service of a humanitarian cause: support the Iraqi government in plan...
NASA, Partners name ocean studying satellite for noted Earth scientist
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
NASA - along with ESA (European Space Agency), the European Commission (EC), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETS...
QinetiQ to play key role in maximising European capabilities in operational earth observation
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
The Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere (ALTIUS) is a satellite mission that will monitor and map the distribution and evolu...
Another reason to reduce man-made ozone: To cool a warming planet
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
In a News and Views article in Nature Climate Change ("Cleaner Air is a Win-Win," 10.1038/s41558-019-0685-4) Lehigh University Professor of Earth and Environmen...
Agreement on data utilization of earth observation satellite with FAO
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
A three-year agreement signed last week will enhance the access of FAO member states and other users to JAXA data sets and more "ground-truthing" evidence throu...
Ozone-depleting substances caused half of late 20th-century Arctic warming, says study
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
A study published in Nature Climate Change by researchers at Columbia University examines the greenhouse warming effects of ozone-depleting substances and finds...
Capella Space unveils new satellite design for EO platform
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
Informed by extensive customer feedback and findings from the launch of Denali, Capella's testbed satellite, the re-engineered design features a suite of techno...
Kleos and Geollect sign Channel Partner and Integrator Agreement
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
Geollect will procure and integrate data from Kleos' satellites as it becomes a global leader in dark vessel tracking capability whereas Kleos data will be used...
Clouds as a factor influencing the climate
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
In addition, EUREC4A will examine how fine-scale features in the ocean - eddies and fronts - interact with the atmosphere. Five research aircraft and four resea...
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