News & Articles - Space.com Article By Leonard Davide, Senior space Writer. around the world with ocean and atmosphericmonitoring sensors. The health of the oceans, changing weather, shifts in http://www.seakeepers.org/news/space.htm
Extractions: posted: 10:15 am ET By Leonard Davide, Senior Space Writer Here's a way to float a great idea. Equip a range of seagoing vessels including private yachts and passenger cruise ships with science gear to provide real-time information helpful in calibrating satellite data about Earth's endangered oceans. Current weather conditions, sea surface temperature, salt content, phytoplankto n levels, even getting an early look at the build-up of El Nino conditions - these and other measurements are part of a do-it-yourself campaign to help save the oceans. The International SeaKeepers Society, headquartered in Miami, Florida, is outfitting luxury yachts, other vessels, and platforms around the world with ocean and atmospheric monitoring sensors. Stuffed inside compact instrument modules, the sensors gather and transmit findings via satellite to scientists around the globe. The health of the oceans, changing weather, shifts in climate, sources of pollution and other threats to human life and marine resources can be examined.
BBC News | FORUM | Space: Monitoring The Earth Thursday, 21 February, 2002, 1418 GMT space monitoring the Earth You quizzed spaceengineer Derek Todman on the European space Agency's biggest ever satellite http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/forum/1834102.stm
Extractions: You quizzed space engineer Derek Todman on the European Space Agency's biggest ever satellite, Envisat, which is set for launch on 1 March. James Allan in the UK asked: Will the satellite be able to study the impact of human activity on clouds, and shed some light on how big an effect this is having on climate forcing? Derek Todman replied: As you are probably aware, the impact of human activity on the environment is a very complex affair. There is not only a human impact but nature itself impacts the clouds, namely the seasonal variations. Envisat will provide a significant amount of data over its lifetime to measure the variation in a number of different aspects of our environment.
Russia's Weather - Main Menu info@meteo.infospace.ru. Web Server Russia's weather developed bySpace monitoring Information Support laboratory (SMIS IKI RAN). http://meteo.infospace.ru/
Space Weather Research At MSSL (1) We are helping to define ESA's future space weather monitoringprogramme as part of a contract led by Alcatel space industries. http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_plasma/research/spaceweather_research.html
WINDS: News: Launch Gives Weather Forecasters Twin Wind Watchers DC Groundbased methods of monitoring winds using a glimpse of this picture, whereasspace-based microwave and direction under most weather conditions across http://windss.jpl.nasa.gov/news/adeos_launch.html
Extractions: Adeos-II information (Image courtesy of NASDA) Weather and climate forecasters will double their pleasure, thanks to today's successful launch of NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument. The instrument, which launched at 5:31 p.m. Pacific Time from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center, joins another satellite already in orbit to measure wind speed and direction over Earth's oceans. The SeaWinds scatterometer, developed and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will complement and eventually replace a second, identical instrument that has been orbiting since June 1999 aboard NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite. Its three- to five-year mission will augment a long-term ocean surface wind data series that began in 1996 with the launch of the NASA Scatterometer aboard the National Space Development Agency of Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (Adeos) spacecraft. This newest SeaWinds instrument is aboard Japan's Adeos-II spacecraft. The Japanese Space Agency is a partner on SeaWinds, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Space Weather Current Conditions space weather Current Conditions PFRR AllSky Camera Image and High Latitude MonitoringSystem VHF is operated by the Swedish Institute of space Physics, Kiruna http://space.rice.edu/ISTP/rt.html
NOAA's Space Weather (Story 2c) National weather Service, the space Environment Center provides realtime monitoringand forecasting of space weather, and has done so for the last 35 years. http://www.spaceweather.noaa.gov/stories/sw2c.htm
Extractions: SPACE WEATHER - WHAT IS IT AND WHY DO WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT? Space weather occurs in the area between the Earth and the Sun and refers to the disturbances and turbulent storms that streak through space, sometimes causing adverse effects on human activities. These disturbances are caused by storms on the sun that cause variations of electromagnetic fields and energetic particle fluxes. NOAA's Space Environment Center ( SEC ) located in Boulder, Colo., is the official space weather center for forecasting disturbances that can affect people and equipment working in the space environment. Their Space Weather Operations Center is jointly operated by NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, providing forecasts and warnings of solar and geomagnetic activity to users in government, industry, and the private sector. The SEC observes, assesses and predicts activity in the space environment to promote public safety and to mitigate economic loss that could result from disruption of satellite operations, communication and navigation systems, and electric power distribution grids.
Weather In Moscow weather IN MOSCOW, http://www.wtr.ru/moscow/eng/weather/weather.html
Dr Sky Earthview Also in the Dr.Sky planetarium is a program known as Earthview which will give you live views of the Earth from space by selecting your http://www.drsky.com/reference.shtml
Extractions: A S T R O N O M Y Dr. Sky believes in education, at all levels, from children to adults. Please use this section to further advance your knowledge on a particular subject of interest to you. I hope that you find this section to be useful and FUN. Want to know more on a particular subject in Astronomy or Aerospace/Aviation? Then let me know by sening us an E-Mail. Your Sky This is an amazing site known as "Your Sky". Click on the link and you can find out what objects are visible for any time of the night, from anywhere in the world. This gives you the capability to not only follow the sky of "Dr.Sky" but permits you to find the objects in YOUR sky, anytime. Earthview Also in the "Dr.Sky" planetarium is a program known as "Earthview" which will give you live views of the Earth from space by selecting your coordinates of choice. This is a most amazing site.
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Extractions: More Favorite Links... From time to time, "Dr.Sky" will review and recommend specific books and related educational material for children and adults. The material listed here, should be available from your favorite internet booksellers, like Amazon.com. "Dr.Sky" suggests that you visit this area often for new and interesting suggestions. Happy Reading and let them know you found it on the "Dr.Sky" website! Books and other educational material that we recommend! Take a tour of the visible universe and learn how to find the many wonders of the night sky. Written in laymans terms, this book is a wonderful guide for young adults as well as more advanced observers.
Extractions: Published: Friday, 07-Apr-2000 14:51:32 CST FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 7, 2000 2000-04-06-OTHER Physics professor George Sofko will receive more than $850,000 over the next five years from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to hire several researchers on four campuses to help analyze space weather data from an international space radar network. Sofko's grant is one of 15 awarded under NSERC's Collaborative Research Opportunities program. Sofko will distribute $170,000 annually for the next five years to the partners U of S, University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario and University of New Brunswick. "We desperately need these scientists to harvest the fruits of the large investment in the Canadian portion of international SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network) project," said Sofko. "Their research could aid in the development of reliable space weather models to provide warnings of dangerous space weather conditions." He noted that over the past decade, space weather has become a major issue for the world economy. "Multimillion-dollar damages are the consequence of satellites and electrical power grids being ripped apart by super powerful solar winds that strike the Earth's outer atmosphere," he said.
Extractions: (for advanced users) Below are maps of the sky showing all sources detected recently by the All-Sky Monitor aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer . An Aitoff projection of the entire sky in galactic coordinates and a Cartesian projection of the Galactic center region are shown. In the maps the diameter indicates the flux of the object, while the color indicates the change in flux as compared to the previous week. Red objects are growing fainter while blue objects are getting brighter. The table at the bottom gives the value of the flux from the latest measurement, the flux averaged over the previous day, and the flux averaged over the previous week. A light-curve giving the fluxes over the past one to two weeks can be obtained for each source by clicking on the name of the source in the table. All Sky Zoom in on other map regions... This table gives the last flux and the average flux for all sources for which data has been collected in the past one to two weeks. The last flux is the single last measurement of the flux of the source. The average daily flux is the weighted average of all flux measurements from the 24 hours prior to the time of the last measurement. The average weekly flux is the weighted average of the flux measurements from the past week (relative to the time of the last measurement). For the two averages, the number of different observations and the time of the first observation used in the average is given.
Extractions: October 2, 1997 J ust how accurate are space-based measurements of the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere? In a recent edition of Nature , scientists Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA/Marshall describe in detail just how reliable these measurements are. Why is it important? T he question is very important, as these temperature measurements from satellites in space are one of our most important windows into measuring and understanding the phenomenon of Global Warming. O ver the past century, global measurements of the temperature at the Earth's surface have indicated a warming trend of between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees C. But many especially the early computer-based global climate models (GCM's) predict that the rate should be even higher if it is due to the man-made "Greenhouse Effect". Furthermore, these computer models also predict that the Earth's lower atmosphere should behave in lock-step with the surface, but with temperature increases that are even more pronounced. ( Get the latest on the Earth's Temperature from Space by clicking on the diagram!!
