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Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


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Gartner forecasts 2.8 percent growth in PC sales in 2009

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.


New water management tool may help ease effects of drought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall and streamflow may look like months in advance. A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative ...


Implications of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.


Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...


Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma mean double trouble in the western Pacific

Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma mean double trouble in the western Pacific

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There's double-trouble in the Western Pacific with one typhoon and one tropical storm bringing soaking rains, dangerous surf and gusty winds to two different locations. Typhoon Melor is affecting the east ...


Sexy platform delivers on promises

Technology / Software

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SeCSE project promised to deliver an industrial-strength development environment for service-centric software engineering. Its applications deliver on those promises.


NOAA announces an experimental harmful algal bloom forecast bulletin for Lake Erie

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health ...


UN seeks better data on hurricanes, droughts (AP)

UN seeks better data on hurricanes, droughts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The United Nations opened talks Monday on setting up a better weather surveillance system worldwide so all nations can get earlier, more accurate warnings about hurricanes, droughts and floods.


Targeted investments in climate science could present enormous economic savings across the globe

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Targeted investments in climate science could lead to major benefits in reducing the costs of adapting to a changing climate, according to new research published by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric ...


Seattle area could see record-setting high temperatures this week

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Western Washington is braced for unusually hot weather this week, but University of Washington scientists say this could be one for the record books, with Seattle experiencing historic triple-digit readings.


Scientists unveil new seasonal hurricane forecasting model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists at The Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) have developed a new computer model that they hope will predict with unprecedented accuracy how many hurricanes will occur ...


Hurricane Katrina: Phone home

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation.


300 billion weather forecasts used by Americans annually, survey finds

300 billion weather forecasts used by Americans annually, survey finds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Close to 9 out of 10 adult Americans obtain weather forecasts regularly, and they do so more than three times each day on average, a new nationwide survey by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric ...


CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...