SSEC - Images And Data space Science and Engineering Center Images and Data. of realtime and archive weather and satellite data galleries Antarctica / Polar, Field Experiments, Environment and weather over land and oceans. Fire monitoring satellite images http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data
Extractions: Other Data and Resources Provides access, maintenance and distribution of real-time and archive weather and satellite data. picture galleries: Antarctica / Polar, Field Experiments, Environment and Weather ... Top of page GOES (North and South America), Meteosat (Europe and Africa) , GMS (Asia and Australia) Web page interface for viewing GOES, GMS, and Meteosat satellite pictures and movies in multiple image channels and more Full resolution, real-time GOES East/West composite satellite image web page interface with zoom and animation features Continental U.S. TERRA MODIS (MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) pictures and movies including the SSEC Global Montage, Rotating Globe movie, and Antarctic composite
Sec.noaa.gov/NOAAScales/ Chinese Scientists Ensure weather monitoring for space ProgramsWednesday, March 28, 2001, updated at 1215(GMT+8). SciEdu, Chinese Scientists Ensure weather monitoring for space Programs. Chinese http://sec.noaa.gov/NOAAScales/
Optical Monitoring Of Space Weather From Low Earth Orbit OPTICAL monitoring OF space weather FROM LOW EARTH ORBIT AN APPLICATION OF DISASTER . monitoring AND PREVENTION. Larry J. Paxton and Ching I. Meng. http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ISSSR-95/opticalm.htm
Extractions: OPTICAL MONITORING OF SPACE WEATHER FROM LOW EARTH ORBIT: AN APPLICATION OF "DISASTER" MONITORING AND PREVENTION Larry J. Paxton and Ching I. Meng The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, Maryland, USA The monitoring system we describe is the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager (SSUSI) which will fly on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Block 5D-3 spacecraft. SSUSI is a hyperspectral imager which images a 5000 km swath of the earth in the far ultraviolet (0.115 microns to 0.180 microns) in the cross-track direction as it travels around the Earth in a sun-synchronous near-polar orbit at 830 km altitude. SSUSI monitors the composition and structure of the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere, as well as the auroral energetic particle inputs. This data can be used to provide warnings and alerts to user community.
Extractions: Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria sogunade@oauife.edu.ng Abstract . The planet Earth is unique in the solar system as the only planet supporting the existence of life. Space as the medium connecting the solar system has weather whose variations have tremendous consequences for life on Earth. In the early fifties only a few countries monitored space weather from ground-based observatories. Recently the study of the origin, propagation and impact of a space weather event was carried out by 20 spacecraft owned by 12 countries, and by 30 ground-based observatories. The advances in space weather monitoring and the resultant ability to predict and prepare for the violent perturbations to the near-Earth space environment are examined in the light of the disruption of life-supporting technological systems on Earth. Sommaire The 150 million kilometres of space between the Sun and the Earth's orbit, which the solar wind traverses in 30 hours, provides ample room to position several space weather stations for monitoring the solar wind. The stations should contribute data about the origin, development and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which is the largest single information gap in space weather monitoring system. The level of disturbance in the geomagnetic field serves as a convenient proxy that characterizes the level of disturbance of the near-Earth space environment, namely, the magnetosphere and the ionosphere. Extraordinary levels of geomagnetic disturbances known as ``magnetic storms'' characterize sp-ace weather. Magnetic storms denote variations in the Earth's magnetic field intensity, which may be as large as the several percent of the undisturbed value measured at the Earth's surface. Particle, electromagnetic, and ionospheric disturbances resulting from solar storms, coronal mass ejections, fast solar wind streams and ionospheric instabilities pose several costly hazards.
Space Weather Monitoring At 12 GHz space weather monitoring at 12 GHz. Project Team Urpo, Puhakka, Oinaskallio A new radio telescope system with an 1.8 meter diameter dish was constructed. http://kurp-www.hut.fi/publications/annual/00/node34.html
Extractions: Space Weather Monitoring at 12 GHz Project Team: Urpo , Puhakka, Oinaskallio A new radio telescope system with an 1.8 meter diameter dish was constructed. It is used to continuous monitoring of solar radiation at 12 GHz. The beamwidth of the telescope is so wide that whole solar disk is covered. All solar radio events starting from intensities of a few Solar Flux Units will be detected. Experimental operation started in August 2000 and continued to the end of the year. About 30 strong events were measured in addition to numerous small events.
Weather & Global Monitoring weather Global monitoring. Oregon State University Atmospheric Science weather Information; Centre for Terrestrial, Solar and space Services space Telescope http://www.csu.edu.au/weather/
Extractions: Current weather satellite images, including: The Weather Channel James Cook University Weather reports and forecasts Australian environment: Frequently asked questions Other Weather and Climate Services Terrestrial, Solar and Space Services Space Telescope Electronic Information Service The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System IPS Radio and Space Services Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
NASA Satellite Temperature Measurements Fuel Global Warming Debate Thermometers" in space monitoring The Accuracy of Satellite Data. Today from space Near RealTime Data and Imagery of the Earth's Atmosphere. Studies of Climate and weather http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd06oct97_1.htm
Extractions: October 2, 1997 J ust how accurate are space-based measurements of the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere? In a recent edition of Nature , scientists Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA/Marshall describe in detail just how reliable these measurements are. Why is it important? T he question is very important, as these temperature measurements from satellites in space are one of our most important windows into measuring and understanding the phenomenon of Global Warming. O ver the past century, global measurements of the temperature at the Earth's surface have indicated a warming trend of between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees C. But many especially the early computer-based global climate models (GCM's) predict that the rate should be even higher if it is due to the man-made "Greenhouse Effect". Furthermore, these computer models also predict that the Earth's lower atmosphere should behave in lock-step with the surface, but with temperature increases that are even more pronounced. ( Get the latest on the Earth's Temperature from Space by clicking on the diagram!!
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Extractions: Developed for the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), our systems are used by KSC to enhance the process to measure the safety of hundreds of workers performing weather sensitive operations around KSC launch pads. ENSCO's systems combine the knowledge of air quality and weather sensitive activities with real-time data from any air quality or meteorological sensor such as local or regional air quality data sensor networks, lightning sensors, weather radar, or commercial weather data services. The Meteorological and Range Safety Support (MARSS) System The Meteorological and Range Safety Support (MARSS) system is the basic platform and tool for our meteorological monitoring and toxic hazard prediction systems. This tool provides basic data acquisition and display of data collected from weather towers, upper-air sensors, surface observations, and global meteorological products. The data is also used by the weather monitoring module and the toxic hazard prediction module.
NASA Plans An Orbiting Radar To Forecast Space Weather NASA Science News An orbiting radar, scheduled for launch in 2000, will help predict space weather space physicists are optimistic that with better monitoring of the nearEarth environment they http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast29oct98_1.htm
Extractions: Space Science News home October 29, 1998 O ver the past few years, TV audiences have become accustomed to weathermen showing them radar pictures of storms marching across the viewing area. In a little more than a year, space scientists hope they'll be able to do the same as space storms hit the Earth's magnetosphere. IMAGE - the Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Exploration spacecraft - scheduled for launch in 2000, will carry several instruments to paint pictures of the heretofore invisible regions of the inner magnetosphere. Space "storms," seen on the ground as aurorae, or the northern and southern lights, can disrupt satellite communications, power grids, and even telephone conversations. The storms' source is in the magnetosphere - a vast and complex region encompassing Earth - where the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. A region of inner magnetosphere, the plasmasphere, consists of relatively dense ionized gas which rotates with the Earth. See and hear what solar storms can do to us on Earth ! Video produced by the American Institute of Physics "Inside Science."
Weather & Global Monitoring weather Global monitoring. Current weather satellite images, including Solar and space Services. space Telescope Electronic Information Service. Hubble space Telescope's http://www.csu.edu.au/weather.html
Extractions: Current weather satellite images, including: The Weather Channel James Cook University Weather reports and forecasts Australian environment: Frequently asked questions Other Weather and Climate Services Terrestrial, Solar and Space Services Space Telescope Electronic Information Service The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System IPS Radio and Space Services Space Science and Engineering Center, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery MOC is operated daily at Malin space Science Systems (MSSS). and red and blue wide angle cameras that provide daily global weather monitoring, context images http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/
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Extractions: Version 3.0 List of Features: Interface and Support for an extensive and elaborate Solar and Space Weather Digital SMS Service, so you can stay informed of conditions while away from your computer using your digital SMS capable cell phone or pager. Select from over 22 different types of SMS services ranging from notification of x-ray solar flare activity to newly reported auroral activity sightings - all available in real-time. Remote control of your SMS service is also possible while you are in the field! Over 25 new types of internet resources are now tracked and maintained, bringing the total number of tracked internet resources to over 88. New POLAR spacecraft PIXIE image support of auroral x-ray activity.
Science & Technology At Scientific American.com: The Way To Go In Space -- To Go Science and Technology at Scientific American.com The Way to Go in space Science and Technology from Scientific American daily science news and technology news, science trivia, science revenues in space for the weather satellites to hightech platforms monitoring global change. The pressing demand for launches has even prompted Boeings commercial space http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005E0F4-8A82-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&a
STD Digital SMS Solar & Space Weather Services Homepage Our digital SMS Service is the most comprehensive solar and space weather monitoring service available, with over 23 types of information that can be monitored http://www.spacew.com/sms/
Extractions: Available services range from the real-time notification of the occurrence of solar flare activity to the receipt of new observations of auroral activity (northern lights) from the global auroral activity observation network. Specific types of space environment parameters can also be monitored in real-time, such as the interplanetary magnetic field, solar wind velocities, solar wind densities, solar wind temperatures, energetic proton populations, the detection of the arrival of interplanetary shock waves, energetic electron populations, estimated polar cap potentials, and much more. You have complete control over what you receive. You set the thresholds that determine when SMS messages are delivered to you. You can even set up your services so that SMS material is only delivered to you during specific times of the day or night. And you can remotely control the SMS server while in the field by sending e-mail messages to the server.
Extractions: March 1, 2004 Tom Jackson, a hydrologist with the Agricultural Research Service's Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., is the lead scientist for validation of the data to be collected by Hydros, a new satellite being developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). By 2010, Hydros should be orbiting the Earth daily and providing an unprecedented monitoring of the planet's water cycle. Data from Hydros will feed into weather and climate models that currently predict soil moisture for daily forecasts based on precipitation and other, indirect measurements. In the future, these models will have real-time, direct measurements of soil moisture from satellite sensors. Soil moisture is among the top terrestrial environment measurements needed by the U.S. Departments of
EMPIRICAL MODEL USAGE IN IONOSPHERIC WEATHER MONITORING be used for near realtime interpretation of Doppler spectra observations and could be used for ionospheric weather monitoring over a space Res., 11, 23, 1991. http://www.ips.gov.au/IPSHosted/INAG/uag-104/text/zaalov.html
Extractions: Back to INAG Homepage Back to UAG-104 Contents page EMPIRICAL MODEL USAGE IN IONOSPHERIC WEATHER MONITORING Alexander Eliseyev, Nikolay Zaalov Radiophysics Division, Research Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 198904 Petrodvoretz, RUSSIA Antenna Besprozvannaya Abstract An empirical model is proposed for the interpretation of experimental ionospheric data. The model represents the major large-scale characteristics of the sub auroral and auroral F2 layer as well as the temporal variations during the transition from quiet to disturbed conditions. The model is in FORTRAN code and the correction of predicted foF2 values is possible using satellite and vertical sounding data. Introduction A global network of ionospheric observatories provides the possibility of determining ionospheric "weather" at a given time. Ionospheric modelling is used for ionospheric forecasting and for the calculation of ionospheric parameters along a radio path. The data from ionospheric observatories as well as in-situ satellite measurements can be used for the correction of the model parameters. In this paper, an empirical model is proposed for ionospheric weather monitoring. The first part of the paper gives the outline of the model. In the second the results of calculations for quiet and disturbed conditions are presented and briefly discussed, and finally an example of a comparison with experimental HF doppler sounding data is presented. The Main Principles of the Model The idea of plasma tubes connecting the ionosphere with the conjugate region is proposed as the basis for computation of the level of noon ionisation. The latitude variations of foF2 are approximated by a product of two functions. One is determined by the solar zenith angle and the other by magnetic field geometry (for the model under consideration the inclined dipole approximation is suitable).
Fire Hunting: New Software Helps Satellites Pinpoint Fires Earlier is a basic element of US weather monitoring and forecast and reliable stream of environmental information for weather forecasting and Related space.com STORIES. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/noaa_firewatch_020626-1.html
Extractions: While firefighters from as far away as Alaska are being called in to help fight the fires now consuming the United States' southwest, some of the most crucial assistance remains 23,000 miles away, in orbit. Satellite photos and data are important in assisting teams on the ground predict, spot, and observe fire outbreaks. That role, however, is now even bigger thanks to a new software program that turns around fire assessments more quickly and accurately. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) developed the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES) systems over several years. The most recent addition to the program is the Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WFABBA) created by NOAA at the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center in Madison, Wis. TECH WEDNESDAY Visit SPACE.com to explore a new technology feature each Wednesday.
Extractions: March 1, 2004 - ARS News - Tom Jackson has his eye on 2010. That's when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will use the Hydros satellite, scheduled for launch that year, exclusively to monitor daily soil moisture change around the globefor the first time in history. Daily soil moisture monitoring of Earth from space has long been the goal of hydrologist Jackson and his colleagues in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and many other agencies. They're working closely with NASA to verify soil moisture data from several of its satellites in hopes that this information will one day feed into the models on which today's daily weather forecasts are already based.
FMI - FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - Northern Lights The latter predictions are based on a spaceweather monitoring system either by ground-based devices or satellites watching the space-weather conditions around http://www.fmi.fi/faq/index_5.html
Extractions: There is two kind of Northern lights prediction: statistical and real-time ones. The former are based on a large amount of observations of Northern lights at different latitudes during several years. From these statistics we can say what is the probability of the occurrence of Northern lights during the course of year. According to the statistics compiled by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, four nights out of five are illuminated by Northern lights in Northern Lapland (Kilpisjärvi-Utsjoki area) providing that the sky is free enough from clouds. On the coast of the Arctic Ocean in North Norway (e.g. in Tromsö) one can see Northern lights almost every night. Even in South Finland, say Helsinki, one can see them but much more seldom; in Helsinki only one night out of 20. The latter predictions are based on a space-weather monitoring system either by ground-based devices or satellites watching the space-weather conditions around the Earth. When the monitoring devices (e.g., magnetometers or particle detectors in a satellite) show certain deviations from the normal situation, one can expect that a space weather storm is approaching in a few hours.
