A first look at data from NASA’s laser altimeter mission ICESat-2 reveals very high resolution 3-D profiles of ice on land and sea, forests, and shallow bodies of water.
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Local Climate Projections: A Little Money Goes a Long Way
Three Nordic countries collaborate to build a suite of eScience tools to support long-term planning and decision-making in the face of a changing climate.
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Is the Northern Permafrost Zone a Source or a Sink for Carbon?
Thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, but finding out how much requires better collection and curation of data.
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Six New Satellites Watch the Atmosphere over Earth’s Equator
The FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 constellation, launched this June, will provide the most accurate data yet on tropical weather, climate, and space weather.
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Scientists Share Results of Dust Belt Research
Central Asian Dust Conference; Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 8–12 April 2019
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Satellite Oceanography Data Producers and Users Connect
First International Operational Satellite Oceanography Symposium; College Park, Maryland, 18–20 June 2019
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Scientists and Planners Face Challenge of Rising Seas
NASA Sea Level Change Team Meeting; Annapolis, Maryland, 11–13 March 2019
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Studying the Societal Dimensions of Atmospheric Carbon Removal
Workshop on Human/Societal Dimensions of a New Carbon Economy with Carbon180; Washington, D.C., 13 February 2019
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How Is Recent Arctic Warming Impacting East Asian Weather?
Arctic Warming and East Asia Weather Linkage Workshop; Incheon, South Korea, 13 May 2019
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Monitoring the Environment in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Ocean Observing System for the Environment (MOOSE) network integrates a range of platforms to detect and identify long-term environmental anomalies.