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Intergeo 2019 - Knowledge and action for planet earth
" Knowledge and action for planet earth " is the motto of Intergeo's 25th anniversary exhibition this year. As the world's most important communication and networking forum for geo-IT, digitization and innovations such as virtual and augmented reality, UAVs and smart cities are high on the agenda. As a pioneer in this UAV field, Meteomatics operates a ground-breaking Meteodrone programme. By ...
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New issue of Meteorological Technology International (MTI) out now
Discover our new article about solar monitoring, our Ceilometer ad and other solutions including Lufft technology in the latest issue of the MTI The new MTI edition out now and we're in: Discover our and our partners' latest weather observation solutions on the pages 71, 72 73 & 106f. To the MTI extract incl. our new article You are interested in our weather stations for Solar ...
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Best service, best expertise: Lufft as supplier of Omenium
When we decided to design our real-time weather monitoring system, we wanted to be able to offer our customers a complete range of sensors, for all their needs. While there are many companies out there offering a good selection of sensors, not one offered the full line that Lufft offers, and critically, the same level of precision. That motivated us to contact them and from that day, we never had ...
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Seventeenth World Meteorological Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 May – 12 June 2015
The World Meteorological Congress meets once every four years to determine policies and priorities for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It approves long-term plans and the budget, elects the President and Vice-Presidents of WMO and members of the Executive Council, and appoints the Secretary-General. The Congress session takes place from Monday 25 May to Friday 12 June at the Geneva ...
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Why are Active and Passive Lufft Runway Sensors Always Coupled at Airports?
46 out of 50 (92%) landing approach accidents occur due to slippery runways (source: The Boeing Company). To prevent weather-related landing accidents, airports are equipped with Aviation Weather Observation System (AWOS) and Ice Detection Systems (IDS). How to keep runway surfaces ice-free? At airports, special chemical de-icing agents such as formic acid with a very low freezing point are ...
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Why are Active and Passive Lufft Runway Sensors Always Coupled at Airports?
46 out of 50 (92%) landing approach accidents occur due to slippery runways (source: The Boeing Company). To prevent weather-related landing accidents, airports are equipped with Aviation Weather Observation System (AWOS) and Ice Detection Systems (IDS). How to keep runway surfaces ice-free? At airports, special chemical de-icing agents such as formic acid with a very low freezing point are ...
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Dry soils exacerbated 2006 heatwave in Northern France
Dry soils and a lack of cloud cover help explain a major heatwave in France, concludes new research. The study indicates that the two drivers were separate, unlinked events that came together at the same time to worsen the 2006 heatwave. Its findings could allow heatwaves to be predicted more accurately to protect public health. Understanding and predicting heatwaves is increasingly important ...
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Contingency Planning: Earth Networks - WeatherBug to Present at North Florida Disaster Preparedness Exercise
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, will participate in The Disaster Experience, an interactive Tabletop Exercise designed to put organizations and business continuity planners from north Florida into the throes of a disaster situation as it unfolds. The half-day exercise ...
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Atlantic Hurricane Season 2012: Forecast Webinar Hosted by Earth Networks - WeatherBug
Following the devastating impact of last August’s Hurricane Irene, which caused at least 45 deaths and more than $7 billion in damages, communities along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast are preparing for the June 1 start of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. To help professionals and members of the media know what to expect this season, Earth ...
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Climate Change Linked to Doubling of Atlantic Hurricanes
BOULDER, Colorado, July 30, 2007 (ENS) - Twice as many Atlantic hurricanes formed each year from 1995 to 2005, on average, than formed during parallel years a century ago finds a new statistical analysis of hurricanes and tropical storms in the north Atlantic. The researchers conclude that warmer sea surface temperatures and altered wind patterns associated with global climate change are ...
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Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Earth Networks and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Present “Taking the Pulse of the Planet: Observing Networks to Support Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation”
Earth NetworksSM, the operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces that its President and CEO Bob Marshall and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Dr. Tony Haymet will make a presentation entitled Taking the Pulse of the Planet: Observing Networks to Support Climate Change Adaptationand Mitigation on June ...
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Rio+20: UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Earth Networks and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Present “Taking the Pulse of the Planet: Observing Networks to Support Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation”
Earth NetworksSM, the operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces that its President and CEO Bob Marshall and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Dr. Tony Haymet will make a presentation entitled Taking the Pulse of the Planet: Observing Networks to Support Climate Change Adaptationand Mitigation on June ...
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WeatherBug and Club Managers Association of America Team Up to Promote Advanced Weather and Lightning Systems for Safety and Operations
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® and operator of the largest weather observing and lightning detection networks, is teaming up with the Club Managers Association of America, the professional association for managers of country, golf, city, athletic, faculty, yacht, town and military clubs. WeatherBug is both the newest member of CMAA’s Corporate Advantage Program and the only ...
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IPCC`s work vital to fighting climate change and to improving weather and climate observations
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s work is vital to world peace and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is committed to continue supporting its activities, WMO Deputy Secretary-General Prof. Hong Yan said today. Prof. Hong Yan praised the IPCC’s latest body of work on the impacts of climate change on water, saying it reinforced the need for countries, particularly in the ...
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New generation of Chinese environmental monitoring satellite now in orbit
China has successfully launched the first of its new generation of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, Fengyun-3A. Fengyun-3A was launched on 27 May 2008 from Taiyuan satellite launch centre in Shanxi Province of China. The payload of this new generation spacecraft is comprised of a complex suite of instruments including visible and infrared imagers, infrared and microwave sounders, a ...
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Earth Networks Featured at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting for Commitment to Provide Severe Weather Warnings in Haiti
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces it is making a formal Commitment to Action to deploy $1.5 million in state-of-the-art weather alerting infrastructure, including hardware and weather tracking technology, in Haiti in 2013. Commitments to Action are new, ...
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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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Better Arctic Observations Needed to Meet Climate Change Challenges, Opportunities
WMO is participating in the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 16-18 October to draw attention to the urgent need for better weather and climate observations and services in rapidly changing Polar regions. The temperature in the Arctic Circle is rising faster than anywhere else on Earth and the sea ice is shrinking at record levels. Scientists are forecasting that the first ...
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WeatherBug App Debuts for Nook Tablets
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® and the operator of the largest weather monitoring, lightning detection and climate observation networks, announces the debut of its WeatherBug mobile app for Nook by Barnes & Noble. With WeatherBug for Nook, users can tap into the world’s largest weather network from 35,000 locations, including real-time weather data from 10,000 ...
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WeatherBug Unveils App for Windows 8
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® products and services and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, launches WeatherBug for Windows 8, providing the personalized at-a-glance weather conditions, pinpoint neighborhood-level forecasts and severe weather alerts users around the globe need to stay safe and informed. WeatherBug for Windows 8 brings a ...
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