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Jan 05, 2009
Two new instances of Giovanni supporting the recently released Modern Era-Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) data...
Jan 05, 2009
At the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix, Arizona, GES DISC staff are giving a one-day short course...
Dec 10, 2008
The GES DISC has created data tools and data systems that are useful for scientists...
Dec 08, 2008
Predicting landslides and improving predictions of precipitation, studying northern Eurasia, and modeling the fluxes between land and atmosphere are the subjects...
Dec 04, 2008
Thirty years of meteorological data; 6 years of AIRS data; a new system for 8 years of IR data from geostationary satellites; 11 years of ocean color data over the Chesapeake Bay--the GES DISC will describe its tools and data for studying climate at the Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco.
Nov 03, 2008
Scientists, students, and applications users seeking on-the-fly visualizations of hurricane-related satellite and model data can now access and visualize the NCEP/CPC 4-km Global Merged IR Brightness Temperature data set through the GES DISC Hurricane Data Analysis tool.
Oct 24, 2008
Three new questions (with linked answers) have been added to the Precipitation FAQ. These questions are useful to GrADS and binary data users.
Sep 24, 2008
Several TRMM data products have been added to the new TOVAS instances as part of the transitional phase between the predecessor TOVAS and the current Giovanni system.
Sep 16, 2008
Three teams from the Goddard Earth Sciences DISC received Robert H. Goddard Honor Awards for 2008.
Sep 09, 2008
As of 2:00 pm EST September 9th, Hurricane Ike has a forward speed to 12 mph heading in the West/Northwest direction with a wind speed of 75 mph and is located at approximately 22.7N, 83.4W with a central pressure of 970 mb. Hurricane Ike headed to Cuba as a category 3 storm initially and has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved over land. ...
Sep 03, 2008
Animations were created using the TRMM 3B42RT data of the Accumulated Rainfall parameter using the GES DISC TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS) ...
Sep 02, 2008
An animation created using the Merged IR data which is a Globally-merged (60N-60S) pixel-resolution IR brightness temperature data (equivalent blackbody temps), merged from all available geostationary satellites (GOES-8/10, METEOSAT-7/5 & GMS). ...
Sep 01, 2008
As Gustav becomes a tropical depression all eyes turn now to an extremely busy Atlantic region. As high time has come upon us for the hurricane season, storms develop across the Atlantic region just north of the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone).
Sep 01, 2008
Hurricane Gustav makes Landfall this morning as a category 2 storm in Cocodrie, Louisiana. At around 11:00 am EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving Northwest at 15 mph with a wind speed of 110 mph. ...
Aug 31, 2008
As of this evening, around 10:54 pm EST, Hurricane Gustav is continuely moving towards the Louisiana coast at 16 mph in a NW direction with a wind speed of 115 mph and is located around 27.3 N, 88.1 W. It has increased slightly in pressure to 954 mb and the storm is starting to slow down as is it getting closer to land, but is still expected to make landfall sometime in the morning hours on Monday, September 1. ...
Aug 28, 2008
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Gustav increased movement to the West slightly to 5mph maintaining wind speed of 70 mph and is located around 17.9 N, 76.2 W. Gustav is expected to soon reach hurricane strength again once it begins movement over the warmer gulf waters. ...
Aug 21, 2008
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay increased wind speeds slightly to 60 mph and is located around 29.4 N, 80.8 W. The system is moving ever so slowly to the West/Northwest back to dumping more precipitation on the East and central areas of Florida. ...
Aug 20, 2008
As of this afternoon, around 2pm EST, Tropical Storm Fay was maintaining wind speeds of 50 mph located around 28.6N 80.6 W. Still over Florida, evident by the image seen below, Fay had been dumping much less precipitation on Florida as the days previous. ...
Aug 19, 2008
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. ...
Jul 25, 2008
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 fourth tropical storm, and it developed into a hurricane of category 2 on July 23, just before it started to pound the Gulf coast of Texas and Mexico. ...
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