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100-Spacecraft Array for Hurricane And Climate Data
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The EOPortal links to an article about 100 micro-satellites array to deliver hurricane and climate data. From the article: "GeoOptics is an international consortium formed to deploy and operate CICERO, which will consist of 100 micro-satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) performing Global Positioning System and Galileo atmospheric radio occultation (GNSS-RO). CICERO will deliver critical data on the state of the Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere in near real time to forecasters and researchers worldwide at an accuracy and vertical resolution 20 to 50 times greater than is possible with the current operational space based systems. [...] CICERO is on track for an initial launch of 10 spacecraft in October of 2010, with follow-on launches soon after to reach a sustained array of 100 spacecraft. The full constellation will deliver nearly 100,000 atmospheric profiles each day."
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Free 102 Years of Monthly Climate Data
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Pierre Marchand writes "Dear All,
Here is a link to free and easy on-line access to 102 years of monthly climate data through either a webmap or direct input of coordinates. The coverage is global.
http://dw.iwmi.org/dataplatform/ClickandPlot.aspx
Please kindly pass the link around in the community to people you know could be interested. The rationale behind this service is to provide easy access to location specific climate queries – so that you don’t have to download the whole world’s coverage when you actually just need one or a few location(s) ;^) – for data rich countries there might be other local datasets that are prefered but for data poor countries this is a must.
This service is part of IDIS, the water, food and environment data sharing portal. As indicated in the available metadata this dataset was made open to the public by the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, UK. Full credit and description is given in the metadata.
Best regards,
Pierre
PS this service uses a popup and was designed to be used with MS Internet Explorer - we are aware there are issues with Firefox and Safari (Mac) – sincere apologies for this – cross-browser compliance is on top of our to-do list."
MetOp-2 Launched Successfully 2 comments
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EUMETSAT tells us about the successful launch of MetOp-2. From the announcement: "MetOp-2, the first of three satellites of the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS), was launched at 16:28 UTC on 19 October 2006, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [...] Flying at a much lower altitude (~800 km) than the geostationary Meteosats, the MetOp satellites, developed by the on behalf of EUMETSAT, will provide more precise details about atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles, invaluable for weather forecasting and climate monitoring."
100-Spacecraft Array for Hurricane And Climate Data
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