Weather Satellites

Development Progress & Contingency Gap Issues

Buch | Hardcover

124 Seiten

2014
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62948-687-1 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the geostationary weather satellites and polar weather satellites. Geostationary environmental satellites play a critical role in our nation's weather forecasting. These satellite, which are managed by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provide information on atmospheric, oceanic, climatic, and solar conditions that help meteorologists observe and predict regional and local weather events. They also provide a means of identifying the large-scale evolution of severe storms, such as forecasting a hurricane's path and intensity. The Editors of this book discuss the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program, planned to be a state-of-the-art, environment-monitoring satellite system that would replace two existing polar-orbiting environmental satellite systems.

Preface; Geostationary Weather Satellites: Progress Made, but Weaknesses in Scheduling, Contingency Planning, & Communicating with Users Need to Be Addressed; Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans & Schedules Require Further Attention; Statement of Mary E Kicza, NESDIS Assistant Administrator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. Hearing on "Dysfunction in Management of Weather & Climate Satellites"; Statement of Marcus A Watkins, Director, Joint Agency Satellite Division, National Aeronautics & Space Administration. Hearing on "Dysfunction in Management of Weather & Climate Satellites"; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	1-62948-687-6 / 1629486876
ISBN-13	978-1-62948-687-1 / 9781629486871
Zustand	Neuware