Displaying items by tag: Meteorology
Friday, 19 June 2009 10:24
Mobile networks to support massive upgrade of Africa's weather monitoring
Mobile cell sites are ideal locations for weather monitoring: they can provide physical infrastructure, power and connectivity. Ericsson and mobile carriers plan to use them to increase Africa's weather monitoring stations from a mere 300 to over 5000, and Ericsson is looking to do the same thing in Asia Pacific.
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Saturday, 24 January 2009 19:20
Meteor becomes "bright blue shot" in Nordic night sky
On January 17, 2009, early in the evening, a meteor shot across the Nordic sky and and brightened up the dark night sky for several seconds. It then exploded with a gigantic booming sound. Videos and images are provided by SpaceWeather.com.
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Space
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 03:22
Purdue University lends satellite idea to Egypt for disaster sensing
The Purdue Terrestrial Observatory will be used as a model for the Kamal Ewida Earth Observatory in Egypt, which will provide real-time, early-warning meteorological and environmental data on natural and human-made disasters such as epidemics, famines, flooding, earthquakes, and terrorism.
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 20:52
First weather satellite, TIROS I, launched 48 years ago
The Television Infrared Observation Satellite I (TIROS-I) was launched on April 1, 1960, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the world’s first weather observation satellite, providing proof that weather forecasting could be accurately performed in space.
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Space
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 19:14
Think twice before catching snowflake in mouth: Bacteria
Scientists have known for about forty years that bacteria cling to ice high in the atmosphere in order to produce rain and snow. However, U.S. scientists only recently found out that biological organisms, such as bacteria and other such microorganisms, play a significant role in the formation and distribution of precipitation.
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Climate
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 19:03
Australia key to disaster reporting of Sentinel Asia
According to Australia’s CSIRO, Sentinel Asia, a network of websites providing information on natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region from global Earth-observing satellites, is based on Australia’s Sentinel Hotspots system, an Internet-based meteorological system.
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Climate
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