The now-famous QuikSCAT satellite, which measures winds at the ocean surface world-wide twice per day, was launched in 1999, and has now exceeded its expected lifetime by several years. A reminder of ...
The QuikSCAT satellite, launched in 1999, provides crucial measurements of surface wind speed and direction over Earth's oceans twice per day. Forecasters world-wide have come to rely on data from ...
SAN FRANCISCO — After a decade in orbit, NASA’s QuikScat satellite has stopped capturing highly detailed data on ocean winds, a loss that is particularly troubling to scientists and meteorologists ...
About a year before Bill Proenza made his now well-publicized cry for the QuikSCAT satellite to be replaced, a group of noted scientists and forecasters did the same thing. Of course, they didn’t made ...
"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up.
In a move to improve global weather forecasts and ultimately save lives and property, the United States and Europe have incorporated wind speed and direction data from NASA's Quick Scatterometer ...
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- NASA says its QuikScat satellite has suffered a malfunction and now scientists are assessing options for future operations of the 10-year-old mission. The space ...
The end of NASA’s Quick Scatterometer, or QuikScat, environmental monitoring mission is noteworthy for several reasons, beginning with the fact that it succeeded beyond all expectations. Built and ...
Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a good plan in place if NASA’s eight-year-old Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite fails, and could make up for the loss of its data ...
Today (June 19) marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's QuikScat, a satellite sent for a three-year mission in 1999 that continues collecting data. Built in less than 12 months, QuikScat ...
Special Issue 65: Proceedings of the 12th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS 2013, Volume 1 (2013), pp. 344-349 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc. Hindcasting of ...
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