Cloud-Free View Looked For By NASA's Landsat Satellite
NASA For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Russia diverted its feeder rivers in the 1960s....
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ROCKVILLE, Md., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) UK has expanded its range of cloud computing services available to government customers to include IT service integration and management, known as SIAM in the UK. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110419/PH85737LOGO-b ) SIAM enables UK government departments to deliver seamless, end-to-end IT services in a multi-vendor sourcing model. To effectively manage the multi-vendor environment, SIAM is...
Melin brings successful, award-winning enterprise marketing expertise from distinguished Silicon Valley career with Eloqua, Taleo, Polycom and PeopleSoft TROY, Mich., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plex Systems (Plex) - provider of the Plex Manufacturing Cloud, the only native cloud ERP system with manufacturing at its core - today announced the appointment of technology marketing veteran Heidi Melin as the company's chief marketing officer. Melin's appointment follows a period of...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online At any given time, nearly one-third of the planet is covered by cirrus clouds – the thin wisps of vapor that trail across the sky – which coalesce in the upper layers of the troposphere, as much as 10 miles or higher above the surface of the Earth. Cirrus clouds cool the planet by reflecting incoming solar radiation, and warm it by trapping outgoing heat. In this way, they influence global climate, so understanding the...
Three-year agreement utilizes the NIMxchange® cloud based content distribution network OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Generation Technologies Corporation (GTC) announced today that CBS has renewed its content distribution agreement for another three years. "We are proud to continue our 34 year relationship with CBS," said David Cunningham, President of GTC. GTC founded broadcast newsroom computer technology in the 1970's and today is the leader in the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While manmade pollution and other natural emissions are often blamed for their role in global warming, new research from the University of Manchester suggests that they could actually play a role in cooling the world’s climate. According to the study, which has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience, those emissions could make clouds brighter. Clouds, the researchers explain, are comprised of water droplets that...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It has long been understood that plants are able to mitigate the forces of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. However, a new study adds another dimension to the role played by plants in curbing global warming by showing that they also emit gases that assist in cloud formation and atmospheric cooling. According to the study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international...
BOSTON, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Technology Partners, the leader in transforming businesses with cloud solutions, today announced the launch of a Cloud Computing Webinar Series designed to educate IT leaders tasked with moving to public, private or hybrid cloud platforms. The company's Senior Vice President, David Linthicum, will host the Webinar Series, starting in May. One of the most well known and highly respected cloud experts in the world, Linthicum delivers...
GFI Software's cloud-based management platform now enables more complete infrastructure protection with critical patch management capabilities - all from a single, enhanced dashboard CARY, N.C., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GFI Software(TM) today announced the addition of patch management capabilities to its ground-breaking, cloud-based platform for the delivery of services via a newly-enhanced, web-based user interface. Small to mid-sized businesses with time-pressed IT teams are...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The ability of sea spray to form clouds over the ocean is influenced by ocean biology which alters the chemical composition of the spray. A team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego, is using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols. These aerosols can influence climate by absorbing or reflecting sunlight and seeding clouds. "After many decades of attempting to understand how the ocean...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The latest sign that the change of seasons has started a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere on Titan is an ice cloud taking shape over the south pole. This type of cloud, made from unknown ice, has long hung over the north pole. According to observations by the composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS) on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the northern cloud is now fading. "We associate this particular kind of ice cloud with winter...
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Surface Dew-points can play a huge role in weather forecasting. The first such role is that it helps determine the amount of moisture in the atmosphere for a given point. If we look at the current dew-point map above from January 28, 2013 we can note several things of interest. First, if we look at where the black circle is around the number 70, we can make note that this air right off the coast of Texas is at a dew point of 70F. The temperature outside must be above 70F, because the...
Orographic thunderstorms are formed when the air is pushed up a mountain side. This type of thunderstorm is found only on the windward side of a mountain range. In the United States we would find these types of thunderstorms on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains and also on the western slopes of the Appalachians. Things that make this thunderstorm important: First of all they only form in certain geographical places on the earth as mentioned above. But they can form anywhere in the...
Weather Pack is our way to envision what is happening with the weather and create a weather forecast for a certain area of the United States. Today’s focus is on Southwest Mississippi along the Mississippi River. On the left side we have a Skew-T which is used to help us determine what is happening in the upper levels at our forecast location. On the right side is our morning satellite image; both of these features are important to creating an accurate forecast. The Skew-T will show...
The above map looks at what is known as ceilings. The definition of ceilings is the first broken or overcast layer of cloud cover in the atmosphere. For it to be considered a ceiling the clouds need to cover more than half of the sky. If we look at the red circled area we see the numbers of 1 and 2. This tells us that there is a ceiling at 1,000-2,000ft which are in the level of low clouds such as cumulus or stratus. The second is the black circle found in the Dakota’s. Here we are...
The image above shows a Cumulus-nimbus cloud that has an anvil top to it. The reason that can be identified is that the cirrus is in place above the center of the storm. The image below does not have an anvil top yet. The anvil top forms on CB clouds after they reach the height in the atmosphere where they begin to feel the upper level winds becoming too strong for them to continue development vertically. The storm on the right has not felt the upper level winds yet, that is why it lacks the...
