08.19.08 - Slow moving Tropical Storm Fay brings heavy rain to Florida Tropical Storm Fay made landfall in Florida on Tuesday. The TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) shows that the slowing moving storm is bringing heavy rain to southern Florida. The tropical storm will bring the much needed rain in severe drought areas in Georgia and Alabama accord...
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08.15.08 - GES DISC added MODIS/Aqua parameters to Giovanni GES DISC added MODIS/Aqua parameters for the following products into NEESPI Giovanni: MYD14CM1.005 (Overpass Corrected Fire Pixel Count , Cloud and Overpass Corrected Fire Pixel Count, Mean Fire Radiative Power, Mean Cloud Fraction over Land for Fire Detection) and MYDVI.005 (Enhanced Vegetatio... + Read More
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08.14.08 - AIRS (AIRX3STM.005) product parameters added to Giovanni GES DISC added AIRS (AIRX3STM.005) surface air temperature to the Giovanni visualization and analysis system at http://gdata1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=neespi + Read More
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08.14.08 - New Giovanni NEESPI instance release for Daily data GES DISC released a new Giovanni instance, 'neespi_daily', with focus on NEESPI daily atmospheric and land surface products of 1x1 deg or higher resolution within the boundaries of Northern Eurasia. http://gdata1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=neespi_daily + Read More
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08.14.08 - GES DISC updated Fire and Vegetation Indices products to Version 005 GES DISC updated MOD14CM1.004 to MOD14CM1.005 (Fire product) and MODVI.004 to MODVI.005 (vegetation index). + Read More
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07.25.08 - Hurricane Dolly Dumps Rain on Texas! Hurricane Dolly reached landfall over Texas on Wednesday and moved in the Northwest-West direction. The storm seemed to move slowly as it was approaching land, almost decreasing its speed by half and rapidly weakened to a tropical storm shortly after landfall. The storm has continued on a path ...
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07.25.08 - A-Train Data Depot Shows Hurricane Dolly The Atlantic hurricane season started early in 2008, with the tropical storm Arthur recorded on May 31. A-Train shows the cross section of Arthur as seen by CloudSAT in Google Earth. By July 20, Dolly was the forth tropical storm, and it developed into a hurricane of category 2 on July 23, just...
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07.23.08 - Hurricane Dolly moves to the coast Hurricane Dolly is moving to the coast and has gained strength. At 11 AM EST, The hurricane center was located at approximately 26.0 N 97.0 W, moving Northwest at 7 mph, with a central pressure of 964 mb and maximum winds of 100 mph. The pressure has made a dramatic decrease, dropping over 20mb...
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07.22.08 - Active Start to the 2008 Hurricane Season The 2008 Hurricane season has definitely begun. Tropical Storm Cristobal is moving further away from the East coast with wind speeds around 55 knots, with a pressure of 1002 mb. As the storm moves further North over cooler waters it will steadily weaken as it encounters high wind shear. It is l...
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07.20.08 - GES DISC participation in NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting Gregory Leptoukh attended NEESPI Regional Science Team Meeting devoted to the High Latitudes of the NEESPI domain, University of Helsinki, June 2-6, 2008, Helsinki, Finland. He chaired a session on Data availability and needs, and also presented a talk A Web-based Tool for Exploring Earth Scien... + Read More
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