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WEATHER RESEARCH SATELLITE [3 records]

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Record 1 2010-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Environmental Economics
  • Climate Change
  • Air Pollution
OBS

Colorado State University, USA.

OBS

CIRA is a center for international cooperation in research and training, covering virtually all physical, economic and societal aspects of weather and climate. CIRA's principal interests include : applications of meteorological satellite imagery, air quality, visibility, mesoscale studies, forecasting, agricultural meteorology, cloud physics, and atmospheric model evaluation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Économie environnementale
  • Changements climatiques
  • Pollution de l'air

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorological Forecasting, Data Measurement and Analysis
DEF

Forecast office with the responsibility for preparing analyses and prognostic charts and/or for preparing forecasts to be disseminated to subordinate stations.

CONT

The Global Hydrology and Climate Center at NASA offers highly detailed studies, data and research on the water cycle, lightning, atmospheric aerosols, atmospheric winds and urban environment. It also houses a large satellite imagery database on the earth's atmosphere, and a weather forecast centre. The data are collected through an array of polar and geostationary satellites.

CONT

A new Weather Forecasting Centre has been established in the UK ... Operating from the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), the main business of the new service is to provide high-accuracy forecasts for offshore oil and gas activities ... Areas covered are all European waters, North and South Atlantic (including the Gulf of Mexico), western Mediterranean and the Caspian.

Key term(s)
  • forecasting center
  • weather forecast centre
  • meteorological forecast center
  • meteorological forecast centre
  • weather forecasting center
  • meteorological forecasting centre
  • meteorological forecasting center
  • forecast centre
  • forecast center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions météorologiques et mesure et analyse des données
DEF

Bureau de prévision chargé de préparer des analyses et des cartes prévues et/ou de préparer des prévisions destinées à être diffusées à des stations secondaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Previsiones meteorológicas, medición y análisis de datos
DEF

Centro principal de predicción con la misión de preparar mapas de análisis y mapas previstos o predicciones para transmitirlos a los centros secundarios.

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Record 3 2002-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
  • Scientific Research
CONT

A variety of routine observations are utilized in operational analyses for numerical weather prediction ... Adaptive strategies have also been tested and demonstrated to be feasible during FASTEX and NORPEX98, using dropsoundings from research aircraft.

CONT

In advance of the scientific research on the numerical modeling study, it is absolutely necessary to check the model output first. For the mesoscale modeling, the observational data with high temporal and spatial resolution are needed to check the model output besides the conventional data, which can be got from such as satellite, radar, aircraft, drop-sounding, wind profilers and automated meso-net weather stations etc.

OBS

dropsonde: a radiosonde dropped from an aircraft to measure weather conditions during its descent.

Key term(s)
  • drop sounding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
  • Recherche scientifique
CONT

Un procédé comparable est celui du catasondage qui consiste à larguer d'un aéronef un système analogue à la radiosonde mais qui tombe en chute libre et dont la vitesse est stabilisée et régularisée par diverses méthodes. Les mesures de la catasonde, également diffusées par un émetteur radioélectrique, sont recueillies par l'aéronef qui l'a larguée. C'est en utilisant de tels dispositifs que sont prospectées certaines perturbations particulièrement actives tels que les cyclones tropicaux.

CONT

La zone la plus à l'Est [de l'Atlantique] a été appelée la «Multiscale Sampling Area» (MSA). C'est dans cette région que les cyclones, alors en phase mature, et les systèmes nuageux associés ont été échantillonnés à différentes échelles. Ces échantillonnages ont été rendus possible par un renforcement des moyens instrumentaux avec notamment deux radars Doppler double faisceau aéroportés en bande X (sur le NOAA-P3 et le NCAR Electra [...] et des dropsondages effectués avec une haute résolution (largués du UK-C130). D'autre part ces avions étaient équipés de capteurs in-situ (microphysique et dynamique) et d'un radar ventral en bande C (pour le NOAA-P3).

Spanish

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