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Launch of a new European satellite to explore the effect of clouds on climate – DNOTICIAS.PT
29 May 2024 09:55 GMT
… NASA's CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites, whose missions are now complete …
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ECMWF: New satellite promises unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols
20 May 2024 10:37 GMT
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Helping to initialise forecasts
Satellites have a prominent role … from NASA’s CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites.
The results were encouraging: … is improved when CloudSat and CALIPSO data are assimilated.
The … developed for CloudSat and CALIPSO will have to be …
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BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite completes nearly two decades-long mission
24 Apr 2024 07:15 GMT
The BAE Systems-built CloudSat satellite has officially ended operations after more than 17 years on orbit — CloudSat launched in April 2006 as part of a NASA-led mission to develop global cloud profiles to better understand how water and ice content …
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CALIPSO Concludes: Lidar Satellite Mission’s 10 Billion Measurements Yielded Vital Atmospheric Insights
28 Sep 2023 18:27 GMT
… a global scientific community.
CALIPSO, a lidar satellite … structures and aerosol layers.
Satellites’ Orbit & Observations … flights. Observations from CALIPSO allowed scientists to issue … , France, provided the CALIPSO spacecraft. The Canadian Space …
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NASA’s CALIPSO mission stops blasting lasers at Earth after 17 years
28 Sep 2023 08:35 GMT
… (NASA) announced Tuesday.The CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared … formation to match the CALIPSO lidar profile measurements with … NASA’s project scientist for CALIPSO, said in a press … observations from the two satellites allowed scientists to build more …
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NASA's Cloud Observing Satellite Bids Farewell After 17 Years
27 Sep 2023 21:15 GMT
… on the CloudSat satellite. CALIPSO used laser light while … formation to match the CALIPSO lidar profile measurements with … from CloudSat.”
The two satellites were placed in Sun-synchronous … Dave Winker, principal investigator for CALIPSO, said in a statement. …
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NuView Aims To Map Earth In 3D Using Satellite Based LiDAR
31 Jul 2023 22:33 GMT
… Observation (CALIPSO), the two Ice, Cloud and land Elevation satellites ( … low-cost, low SWaP satellite-mounted LiDAR.
2) The … and launching payloads and satellites. Traditionally, space has … intends to launch commercial satellites sequentially in batches of …
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Smoky haze from Canada’s wildfires is blocking satellite images
09 Jun 2023 13:02 GMT
… view of Earth-observing satellites.
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Several Nasa satellites are collecting data … Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission collects observations … instruments on board the satellites to optimize their …
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Fibertek Awarded Contract to Develop Satellite-Based Charge...
27 Apr 2021 01:06 GMT
… . The detector consists of three satellites spaced 2.5 million kilometers … for NASA programs, including NASA CALIPSO, NASA ICESat-2, and NASA …
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Scientists use satellite-mounted laser to map global ocean migration
07 Jan 2020 13:31 GMT
… ground-truthing" the satellite-based measurements with data obtained … data from ships and satellites allows us to greatly … ," says Behrenfeld. CALIPSO stands for Cloud-Aerosol … Behrenfeld et al. Global satellite-observed daily vertical migrations …