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Category Archives: Meteorology
UK Met Office Doing Worldwide Natural Disaster Warning Systems
The UK Met Office is working with the US Government (not the National Weather Service/NOAA), NASA, and Google to increase natural disaster warning systems across the globe. Forecasts will be on the seasonal/climate area in Africa and Asia. The goal … Continue reading
Posted in high resolution modeling, Meteorology
Tagged africa, asia, met office, natural disaster, uk, warnings
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National Water Center Opening in Alabama
The National Water Center is opening at the University of Alabama. Its stakeholder goals are to improve flood and water forecasts for emergency responses for flooding or drought like the recent events in California and Texas. The goal will be … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Meteorology
Tagged drought, flooding, Geomatics, GIS, Meteorology, national water center, stakeholder, university alabama
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Silicon Valley Going Rural
More and more companies in the west coast Silicon Valley area of the United States are getting into agriculture technology development. A recent Fortune article mentions how companies from Google to Monsanto along with many other startups are jumping into … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Meteorology, UAV
Tagged data acquisition, fortune, Geomatics, GIS, Meteorology, mit technology review, silicon valley, UAV
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Petaflops not for Export To Some Countries
When you consider the world of weather modeling combined with modeling from Geomatics applications, petaflops are what can take it to the next level. This recent BBC story that Intel is restricted from exporting a new generation of Xeon processors … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, Meteorology
Tagged 110, 180, 33, argonne national laboratory, aurora supercomuter, bbc, big data, china tianhe-2, Geomatics, GIS, LiDAR, petaflops, xeon
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Proper funding of Atmospheric Sciences Research
The Washington Post put out a good article on the investment of Atmospheric Sciences research. The story relates return relative to GDP, the better we can understand storms, the better we can anticipate them, the better we can minimize economic … Continue reading
Posted in Meteorology
Tagged 3%, atmosphic sciences research, funding, gdp, roi, UCAR, washington post
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Climate Change from a Meteorological Point of View
The Fargo Forum published a recent article about WDAY/WDAZ Chief Meteorologist John Wheeler’s scientific perspective on climate change. It is a good article, he goes beyond the traditional political positions taken in the United States. He does a good analysis … Continue reading
Posted in Meteorology
Tagged climate, Climate Change, fargo fourm, john wheeler, Meteorology, wday, wdaz, weather
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Western Australia Getting Six New Doppler Weather Radars
Western Australia is getting six new Doppler weather radars. The locations are not on the Bureau of Meteorology site yet. There is no mention on the BoM site which band of radar they are installing, it will probably be a … Continue reading
Posted in Meteorology
Tagged Australia, c-band, coverage gaps, doppler radar upgrade, dualpol, s-band, unitied states, western australia
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Big Data and Global Agriculture
One story that came out recently from ABC Rural is the expected damage to diverse segments of agriculture due to climate change, including fish stocks, dairy operations, vineyards, and fruit growth. The expected warmer temperatures show a reduction in output … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, Meteorology, UAV
Tagged abc.net.au/rural, big data, Climate Change, Geomatics, GIS, hyperlocal, UAV
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Citations and Open Exchange of Data
The American Meteorological Society has a good recent blog post on datasets. The focus starts out on making sure every dataset used in any use is properly referenced with the proper citations. It is important to point out the 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in GIS, LiDAR, Meteorology
Tagged agriculture, american meteorological society, big data, Geomatics, lastools, laz, LiDAR, Martin Isenburg, open data, rapidlasso, zlaz
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Rainmapper Smartphone App @Rainmapper
Graduate students at the University of California at Irvine have developed the Rainmapper app, available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play store for near-real time global precipitation estimates to a 4km grid point available at your fingertips. … Continue reading
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