Citation Alan Buis, Pacific Locked in ‘La Nada’ Limbo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology (06 February 2013) How JPL recognized this neutral point Briefly: From its vantage point 1336 kilometers (830 miles) above the Earth, the US/European Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2 ocean altimeter satellites measure the height of the ocean surface directly [...]
Categories: Climate,Climate change,Environment,Oceanography,Weather
Tagged: Alan Buis, Bill Patzert, climatologist, CNES, driest, El Niño, El Niño/La Niña–Southern Oscillation, EUMETSAT, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, La Nada, La Niña, limbo, Los Angeles, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ocean surface, radar altimetry, rainfall, wettest, winters
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- 6 February 2013 – 18:16
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From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) posted a water temperature graphic of what La Niña’s Pacific Ocean origin looks like this year. Click on the link below. Citation Alan Buis, NASA Sees Repeating La Niña Hitting its Peak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology (18 January [...]
Categories: Climate
Tagged: Alan Buis, altimetric satellite, drought, EUMETSAT, Jason-1, Jason-2, JPL, La Niña, NASA, sea surface height, southwest, UCAR, water termperature
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- 19 January 2012 – 11:46
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Contrary to what one might think, today’s record levels of fresh water in the Beaufort Sea did not come from melting ice From the University of Washington press release: The new findings show that a low pressure pattern created by the Arctic Oscillation from 2005 to 2008 drew Russian river water away from the Eurasian [...]
Categories: Climate,Environment,Science
Tagged: Alan Buis, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Oscillation, Beaufort Sea, Cecilia Peralta-Ferriz, Eurasian, fresh water, freshwater, grace, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, ICESat, Ignatius Rigor, James Morison, Matt Alkire, Mike Steele, river, Roger Andersen, Ron Kwok, Russian, salinity, Sandra Hines
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- 5 January 2012 – 17:56
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NASA map excites researchers The Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported today that: NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent’s deep interior to its coast, will be critical for tracking future sea-level increases from [...]
Categories: Climate change,Environment,Science
Tagged: Alan Buis, animated map, animation, B. Scheuchl, E. Rignot, glaciers, glaciology, Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Irvine, J. Mouginot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, map, polar region, satellite, satellite tracks, sea level, Steve Cole, tracks, University of California
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- 18 August 2011 – 16:59
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An interesting report from NASA The more one knows about geophysical processes, the more one appreciates the complexity of trying to accurately estimate the Earth’s actual size and how its shape changes over time: Earth’s shape is constantly changing. Tectonic forces such as earthquakes and volcanoes push mountains higher, while erosion and landslides wear them [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: Accuracy of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame origin and Earth expansion, Alan Buis, B. L. A. Vermeersen, Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite, DORIS, Global Positioning System, GPS, gravity, I. Fukumori, mass, NASA Research Confirms it's a Small World After All, polar, R. S. Gross, satellite laser ranging, SLR, very-long baseline interferometry, VLBI, Whitney Calvin, X. Collilieux, X. Wu, Z. Altamimi
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- 17 August 2011 – 18:58
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- By BrainiYak