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Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) to Support NOAA Weather and Climate Models
Environmental Research and Risk Consultancy Firm Selected by CSC to Provide Science and Software Expertise for Migration of NOAA Models to New High-Performance Computing System Lexington, MA - Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) is a team member on the Research and Development High Performance Computing System contract recently awarded to CSC (NYSE: CSC) by the National Oceanic and ...
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ESA signs EUR 263m earth monitoring satellite contract
The European Space Agency and Astrium GmbH have signed a contract worth EUR 263 million to provide the EarthCARE satellite, the sixth Earth Explorer mission of ESA’s Living Planet Programme. As prime contractor, Astrium GmbH is responsible for the satellite’s design, development and integration. The contract was signed on Wednesday in Berlin on the occasion of the International Aerospace ...
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Climate Proof Cities: Practical guidelines for climate proof cities
Cities are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The most efficient way to make cities more climate proof is through numerous relatively small and local measures, which can often be carried out parallel to major maintenance or renovation work. These were the findings of a final report published recently by the Climate Proof Cities research programme. Climate Proof Cities (CPC) has yielded ...
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Computer simulation models can predict tropical cyclone formation
Advanced computer simulation models can predict cyclone formation in the north Indian Ocean a week in advance, an international conference heard. Peter Webster, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's school of earth and atmospheric sciences, US, told a meet on Indian Ocean tropical cyclones and climate change, which began this week (14 February) in New Delhi, that such models used ...
By SciDev.Net
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The renowned Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Jürgen Kurths
The European Geosciences Union honours Kurths as an “exceptional scientist” for his development of "important new methods in nonlinear time series analysis". Kurths’ ideas and methods “have opened new branches of theoretical research, and have triggered key applications in the Earth sciences and sustainability,” the EGU states. His studies of complex ...
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Global warming may make monsoons harder to predict, say researchers
Monsoons will be more difficult to predict in the future because of global warming, researchers have warned. Scientists will need improved weather prediction models, conclude researchers from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), in a report published in Geophysical Research Letters last month (23 April). Reliable prediction of monsoon rains five to seven days in advance is ...
By SciDev.Net
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The Climate Corporation Expands Operations with New Office in Seattle, Washington
The Climate Corporationtoday announced the official opening of its newest office, located in Seattle, Washington. The Climate Corporation combines Big Data, climatology and agronomy to protect the $3 trillion global agriculture industry with fully automated weather insurance products. The location was chosen because of its business-friendly environment as ...
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NASA`s NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing
The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual satellite and all five scientific instruments at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp's production and test facility in Boulder, Colo. During the four-week NPP Compatibility Test 4 (NCT4), ...
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Storms reduce the carbon sink provided by European forests
Natural ecosystem disturbance could be enhancing the variability of the global carbon balance. A recent Swedish study investigated the effect of storm damage on the global carbon balance and found that storms could cause large reductions in the amount of carbon absorbed by forests. Climate change adaptation and mitigation are important parts of the Second European Climate Change programme (ECCP ...
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New forecasting method: Predicting extreme floods in the Andes mountains
Predicting floods following extreme rainfall in the central Andes is enabled by a new method. Climate change has made these events more frequent and more severe in recent decades. Now complex networks analysis of satellite weather data makes it possible to produce a robust warning system for the first time, a study to be published in the journal Nature Communications shows. This might allow for ...
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Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047
Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot - permanently. Other places will soon follow. Singapore in 2028. Mexico City in 2031. Cairo in 2036. Phoenix and Honolulu in 2043. And eventually the whole world in 2047. A new study on global warming pinpoints the probable dates for when cities and ecosystems around the world will regularly experience hotter ...
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Indo-French satellite to boost climate insight
A newly launched Indo-French satellite will help scrutinise weather over the tropics in detail and permit better understanding of the monsoon, cyclones and floods. The one-tonne ‘Megha-Tropiques’ (Megha means cloud in Sanskrit) was launched along with three other smaller satellites on an Indian rocket ‘Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’ this week (12 October) from the Indian ...
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NASA Transfers Operational Control Of Environmental Satellite
The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was transitioned to NOAA operational organization control Feb. 22. The transition marks the next step of the mission that supports NASA's Earth science research and NOAA's weather forecasting missions. Suomi NPP continues the observations of ...
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New manufacturing opportunities - sensors to protect marine and freshwater ecosystems
Researchers will develop sensing technologies which will have significant economic and environmental implications for our marine and freshwater resources. CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship Director Mr Clive Davenport said the collaboration will also drive a new sensor manufacturing industry for Australia. “The cluster collaboration addresses a fundamental need to understand, monitor and ...
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Why is ground-level ozone not on the decline?
Europe has significantly cut its emissions of gases that lead to ground-level ozone. Despite this, levels of ozone do not appear to be falling. A recent EEA report questions this and suggests that the effect of the emission cuts on ozone may be masked by variable weather conditions. In many countries of Europe, the time-series of ozone data are yet too short to draw conclusions about long-term ...
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NASA: Global Warming Will Bring More Severe Storms
NEW YORK, New York, August 30, 2007 (ENS) - The most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth’s climate warms, say scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, using a new climate model. The scientsts predict that in a warmer climate, stronger and more severe storms can be expected, but with fewer storms overall. Previous climate model ...
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Large-scale early flood warning systems provide high returns on investment
Continental-scale early flood warning systems in Europe can provide significant monetary benefits by reducing flood damage and associated costs. Specifically, a new study found that the return from the European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) and available flood damage data has the potential to be as high as approximately 400 euros for every one euro invested. Early flood warnings — and ...
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Human impacts that fuel extreme weather
The serious floods that hit southern England in the winter of 2013-14 were at least partly a consequence of climate change driven by the global warming that results from fossil fuel combustion. To be precise, the extreme rainfall that led to £431 million (US$622 million) of damage was made 43% more likely by human-induced climate change, according to a new study led by the University of ...
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PG&E Undertakes Largest Effort in the Nation to Underground Powerlines to Reduce Wildfire Risk
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) plans to significantly accelerate the undergrounding of powerlines in high fire-risk areas in 2022, part of a comprehensive set of actions to provide reliable energy amid a changing climate and evolving wildfire threat. As part of its 2022 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) released this week, PG&E plans to underground at least 175 miles of powerlines ...
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Taking earth`s temperature via satellite
Imagine adding a thermometer to Google Earth. That's the vision of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Martha Anderson and Bill Kustas, who see the need for high-resolution thermal infrared imaging tools--such as those aboard the aging Landsat satellites--as vital to monitoring earth's health. These thermal data are especially important given the combination of global warming and the ...
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