News tagged with microwave data

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Cyclone Jasmine in 3-D

Data from NASA's TRMM satellite was used to create a 3-Dimensional look at Cyclone Jasmine, currently moving through the South Pacific Ocean.

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees strong thunderstorms still surround Cyclone Iggy's center

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Iggy on January 31 and the AIRS infrared instrument aboard showed that there is a large area of strong thunderstorms still surrounding Iggy's center of circulation.

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NORAD and satellite technology help Santa deliver

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau, the world's population is approximately 7 billion (6,979,978,073+) people. Santa Claus has had to adapt over the years to having ...

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created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

NASA's TRMM satellite sees the power in Tropical Storm Alenga

The first tropical storm of the Southern Indian Ocean season has been renamed from Tropical Storm 01S to Tropical Storm Alenga as it continues to strengthen. NASA's TRMM satellite was able to capture a look ...

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thunderstorms in Southeastern US

Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through ...

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

TRMM Satellite sees Tropical Storm Keila form in the Arabian Sea

The TRMM satellite passed directly above a recently formed tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea on November 2, 2011 at 0350 UTC (11:50 p.m. EDT, Nov. 1). An analysis of rainfall was done using TRMM's Microwave ...

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created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits 2nd-lowest level

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

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created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

NASA's TRMM satellite reveals heaviest rainfall in Maria's northwestern quadrant

NASA's TRMM satellite peers through clouds and can decipher the rate rain is falling within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite shows that the heaviest rainfall is occurring in the northwestern ...

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA catches system 92W become fifth NW Pacific tropical depression

The low pressure system that has been bringing rainfall to the northwestern Philippines has strengthened into the fifth tropical depression of the Northwest Pacific Ocean's hurricane season.

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created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's TRMM Satellite measures Cyclone Ului's Australian rainfall from space

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite can estimate rainfall from space. TRMM is used to monitor tropical rainfall around the world, and can also calculate ...

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created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Madly Mapping the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Planck Sees Light Billions of Years Old

The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.

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created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Unique sky survey brings new objects into focus

An innovative sky survey has begun returning images that will be used to detect unprecedented numbers of powerful cosmic explosions-called supernovae-in distant galaxies, and variable brightness stars in our ...

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created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2