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Tag Archives: atmosphere
Inside a cylinder – about the size of a roll of paper towels – lives a circuit board filled with sensors. It’s called a dropsonde, or “sonde” for short. It’s a work horse of hurricane forecasting, dropping out of “Hurricane …
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Posted in Technology, Videos
Tagged atmosphere, atmospheric conditions, climate conditions, cylinder, dropsonde technology, Dropsondes, how technology is helping with weather, Hurricane Hunter, hurricanes, National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, NSF, Technology, weather, weather and technology
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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists are leading a multi-agency study which reveals that a very high-resolution Doppler radar has the unique capacity to detect individual cloud hydrometeors in the free atmosphere. This study will improve scientists’ understanding of the dynamics and …
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Posted in Earth Sciences, Featured, STEM
Tagged atmosphere, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Facility, clouds, Doppler, hydrometeors, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, meteorology, nasa, Naval Ordinance Test Unit, naval research laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, NRL, physics, RADAR, scripps institution of oceanography, space shuttle, the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Navy's Mid-Course Radar, weather
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A key NASA instrument that can directly measure the impact of solar events on the Earth’s upper atmosphere has weighed in on the huge flare that impacted Earth recently. The flare was considered one of the largest solar events in …
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Posted in Earth Sciences, Space, Space Matters, STEM
Tagged atmosphere, carbon dioxide, coronal mass ejections, defense, Earth, Energetics and Dynamics, Hampton University, infrared emission, ionosphere, Mesosphere, military, nasa, NASA's Langley Research Center, nitric oxide, SABER, solar, solar storm, Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, Thermosphere, TIMED, upper atmosphere
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From www.nasa.gov New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet’s jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth’s atmosphere and influences the weather. The movies, made from …
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Posted in Earth Sciences, Space, Space Matters
Tagged air, astronomers, atmosphere, British Astronomical Association, Cassini, Earth, Goddard Space Center, hubble space telescope, invisible wave, jet streams, Jupiter, nasa, north pole, observe, Rosby waves, science, South Pole, space, spacecraft, streams, video, Voyager, weather, wind
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This is the eighth entry in the Armed with Science series, Dispatches from Antarctica. The series features Air Force Lt. Col. Ed Vaughan’s first-hand experiences on OPERATION: DEEP FREEZE, the Defense Department’s support of National Science Foundation research in Antarctica. …
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