Lots Of Information To Be Devoured From EUMETSAT’s Full Council Plate
EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 67th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on June 20th and July 1st.
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Smart Dragon Helps Environment
Nearly 200 scientists from Europe and China have gathered in Barcelona this week to report on the progress of ongoing Dragon 2 research projects using data from ESA and Chinese Earth observation satellites.
Read MoreITT Receives Study Awards From NOAA For Geosynchronous Sound and Ocean Color
ITT [NYSE:ITT] has won two study contracts to address detailed costing of commercial options for operational weather systems.
Read MoreWHOAA NOAA! Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
NOAA scientists have teamed up with experts from the University of Maryland and North Carolina State University to form the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: The Icy Underbelly
Unlike the Arctic — an ocean basin surrounded by land, where sea ice extends all the way to the pole — the Antarctic is a large continent surrounded by ocean. Because of this geography, the Antarctic’s sea ice extent is larger than the Arctic’s in winter, but smaller in the summer. Total Antarctic sea ice peaks in September (the end of Southern Hemisphere winter) and retreats to a minimum in February.
Read MoreWeathering One Year Of Meteosat-8 RSS
May 13th marked Today marked the first anniversary of the start of the Rapid Scanning Service (RSS) on EUMETSAT’s Meteosat-8 geostationary weather satellite, which, for one year now, has been successfully delivering this vital service in support of Nowcasting of severe weather events.
Read MoreESA’s TIGER African Water Project Extended
ESA kicked off the second phase of its TIGER initiative at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey.
Read MoreCERES Contract Captured
NASA's Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument.
Read MoreNASA Warms Up to Breaking the Ice With a Pod
Testing out new equipment is always an interesting endeavor and soon NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… An Icy Rupture
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. A rapid retreat started in February, near the end of the Antarctic summer.
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