A new initiative collects, archives, and documents climate forcing data sets to support coordinated modeling activities that study past, present, and future climates.
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The Case of the Missing Lunar Heat Flow Data Is Finally Solved
Decades-old data analyzed for the first time suggest that astronauts’ disturbance of the Moon surface increased solar heat intake, warming the ground below.
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NOAA Seeks Emerging Technologies to Further Its Mission
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Emerging Technologies for Observations Workshop; College Park, Maryland, 22–23 August 2017
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What’s the Best Way to Responsibly Collect Ocean Data?
Evolving and Sustaining Oceans Best Practices Workshop; Paris, France, 15–17 November 2017
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It’s So UnFAIR!
A recent paper in JGR: Biogeosciences demonstrates that sharing data has positive benefits not just for the scientific community but also for the one doing the sharing.
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Testing the Waters: Mobile Apps for Crowdsourced Streamflow Data
Citizen scientists keep a watchful eye on the world’s streams, catching intermittent streams in action and filling data gaps to construct a more complete hydrologic picture.
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Counting Every Drop
The challenge of collecting and analyzing precipitation data collected at different times, in different places, and on different scales.
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Managing Radio Traffic Jams with the Cloud
Sensor networks and data mining allow for fully automated, real-time monitoring of radio waves.
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Listening to the Clouds
The assimilation of cloud-cleared infrared data improves numerical weather forecasting, especially for hurricanes, by providing thermodynamic information in cloudy atmosphere.
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Preserving a 45-Year Record of Sunspots
Maps reveal how the Sun’s magnetic field evolves through solar cycles.