08.14.08 - GES DISC updated Fire and Vegetation Indices products to Version 005 GES DISC updated MOD14CM1.004 to MOD14CM1.005 (Fire product) and MODVI.004 to MODVI.005 (vegetation index). + Read More
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07.25.08 - Hurricane Dolly Dumps Rain on Texas! Hurricane Dolly reached landfall over Texas on Wednesday and moved in the Northwest-West direction. The storm seemed to move slowly as it was approaching land, almost decreasing its speed by half and rapidly weakened to a tropical storm shortly after landfall. The storm has continued on a path ...
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07.25.08 - A-Train Data Depot Shows Hurricane Dolly The Atlantic hurricane season started early in 2008, with the tropical storm Arthur recorded on May 31. A-Train shows the cross section of Arthur as seen by CloudSAT in Google Earth. By July 20, Dolly was the forth tropical storm, and it developed into a hurricane of category 2 on July 23, just...
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07.23.08 - Hurricane Dolly moves to the coast Hurricane Dolly is moving to the coast and has gained strength. At 11 AM EST, The hurricane center was located at approximately 26.0 N 97.0 W, moving Northwest at 7 mph, with a central pressure of 964 mb and maximum winds of 100 mph. The pressure has made a dramatic decrease, dropping over 20mb...
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07.22.08 - Active Start to the 2008 Hurricane Season The 2008 Hurricane season has definitely begun. Tropical Storm Cristobal is moving further away from the East coast with wind speeds around 55 knots, with a pressure of 1002 mb. As the storm moves further North over cooler waters it will steadily weaken as it encounters high wind shear. It is l...
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07.20.08 - GES DISC participation in NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting Gregory Leptoukh attended NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting devoted to the High Latitudes of the NEESPI domain, University of Helsinki, June 2-6, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. He chaired a session on Data availability and needs, and also presented a talk A Web-based Tool for Exploring Earth Scien... + Read More
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07.18.08 - AIRS multi-day product, counts doubled The AIRS Project Team has discovered an error in the software that combines the daily Level 3 Product (AIRSX3STD, AIRH3STD, AIRS3STD) to create the multi-day products (AIRX3ST8, AIRX3STM, AIRH3ST8, AIRH3STM, AIRS3ST8, AIRS3STM). The total counts of all points that fall within a 1x1 deg grid cel... + Read More
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07.15.08 - GLDAS VIC land surface products available from the HDISC Global 1.0 degree 3-hourly and monthly products from the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model can now be obtained through anonymous ftp and the Mirador service. + Read More
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07.15.08 - Tropical Storm Bertha moves past Bermuda Tropical Storm Bertha has moved past Bermuda dumping some rainfall and producing high winds and surf. At approximately 10:00 am EST on July 15, 2008 Tropical Storm Bertha was maintaining a wind speed of 60 kts, with a central pressure of approximately 995 mb and located around 35.6N 62.7W. The ...
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07.15.08 - GES DISC automated vegetation index and Fire data production GES DISC automated vegetation index and Fire data production using UMD data processing software. This improves timeliness of data in NEESPI Giovanni. + Read More
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