Category Archives: Earth Observation

NOAA – Global warming will further intensify extreme precipitation

(Source NOAA)-  According to a new NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the…

Clouds “Just Right” for 2012 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt

 According to a new study by scientists at NOAA and the Universities of Wisconsin, Idaho and Colorado, clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for…

First Image from new LDCM (Landsat) satellite released.

Continuing the longest Earth observation mission in history NASA and the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have released the first images from the Landsat Data Continuity Mission…

Study Shows Norths Growing Seasons Changing Due to Global Warming

WASHINGTON — Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly…

Study shows global warming will cause workforce reduction

A new NOAA study projects that by 2050 heat-stress related labor capacity losses will double globally due to climate change. Those effected are people who do work out side or…

LDCM Launch Separation Video is a Work of Art!

Looking as if it was directed by Stanley Kubrick himself in a scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey this is a real example of life imitating art.The Satellite slowly moving…

LDCM (Landsat) Launches on schedule

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is now in orbit, after launching Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. The satellite is power positive and the solar array is extended….

Video Shows Two Systems Join To Become One Historic Blizzard 2/9/13

Two low pressure systems merged over New England around midnight (EST) on Feb. 9, 2013. This animation of NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite imagery from Feb. 7 to Feb. 9 shows the…