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Trump Pitches Tsunami Of Cuts To Noaa

... dominates from New England to the Mid Atlantic with mostly sunny skies. less. This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows a stationary front from the southern Carolinas through Florida and the Gulf Coast states. Rain showers and scattered thunderstorms. more. Photo: AP. Image 4 of 16. NOAA captures Arctic sea ice in the fall of 2013. Scientists spent 3 weeks in the region analyzing conditions, as recent reductions in sea ice extent in the autumn months impacts weather patterns regionally and perhaps farther afield. less. NOAA captures Arctic sea ice in the fall of 2013. Scientists spent 3 weeks in the region analyzing conditions, as recent reductions in sea ice extent in the autumn months impacts weather patterns regionally and. more. Photo: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration. Image 5 of 16. Light from the aurora australis, or “southern lights,” is bright enough to reveal the ice edge in ...

New Noaa Climate Change Study Finds More Warming Of Ocean

... limited information. This new method of collecting ocean record gives a better 90 percent coverage of oceans by the 1960 s to 2015, and from the sea surface all the way down to a depth of 2,000 meters. According to Ecowatch , the paper has shown the slow warming of Earth’s ocean before the 1980, but became faster since then. It also revealed that the speed of warming in the upper ocean, between the surface and 700 meters, has quadrupled between the years 1960 to 1991, and 1992 to 2015. The study also show that there’s no slowdown in global ocean heat content change since the 1998 compared with the previous decade. Future of ocean heat data gathering. Despite the improved collection of data of ocean heat, Dr. John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota has told the Carbon Brief that the political climate of the United States may affect the funding of the current state-of-the-art sensors that are ...

Lakeland-bound Hurricane Hunters Have Strong Case Against Budget Cuts

... has "the foremost flying laboratories in the world," he said. The unit's flights produce data that help National Weather Service forecasters predict storm paths, improving public confidence in the projections, and saving lives and money. With the aid of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters squadron, National Hurricane Center meteorologists accurately predicted the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 three days out, Silah said. In the years since, the accuracy of those predictions has improved. "I think we have a good value proposition to make," he said. The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center plans to complete its move from Mac Dill Air Force Base to Lakeland by June 1 and the mostly new facility, rapidly constructed at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, is expected to be completed by May 1. The project at Lakeland Linder was enabled by a sudden change in building priorities at the airport in a gambit to land the federal contract — building materials were ordered before the U. S. Department of Commerce, NOAA's parent ...

New Noaa Satellite Tracks Lightning In Real Time From Space

... destroyed homes near Houston, wrote Ms. Hersher. Unlike traditional time-lapse animations that appear jerky because the images are presented more quickly than they were gathered, this video is a slower version of what the satellite sees, brought down from the satellite's 500 frames per second to a more human 25 frames per second. NOAA also expects the instrument to provide better forecasting of lightning storms over oceans, benefiting those traveling in the air or water, as well as better predictions of in-cloud lightning, a precursor to lightning strikes that make landfall. The GOES-16 satellite was launched in November with the GLM aboard, to the excitement of the weather community. "For weather forecasters, GOES-R will be similar to going from a black-and-white TV to super-high-definition TV ," said Stephen Volz, assistant administrator for NOAA's Satellite and ...

Noaa, Umbrella Agency For Hurricane Hunters In Lakeland, Bracing For Budget Cuts

... PM, Mar 6, 2017. Share Article. The umbrella agency over the Hurricane Hunters may be bracing for substantial budget cuts, according to an budget memo obtained by the Washington Post and published online late last week. NOAA aircraft on the ramp at NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center, located at Mac Dill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, in October 2013. LAKELAND, Fla. - The umbrella agency over the Hurricane Hunters may be bracing for substantial budget cuts, according to an budget memo obtained by the Washington Post and published online late last week. The budget proposes a 17-percent cut to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, in part to make up for estimated 54 billion extra in defense spending. The proposal is not final, nor official, but is raising eyebrows for those who work within the agency and ...

Climate Scientists Worry Noaa Cuts Will Hinder Alaska Weather Forecasting

... “For example, if you want good weather models, good numerical weather prediction, you need to know what the sea-ice cover is doing, where that sea ice is.”. Zack Labe, a doctoral student with the University of California-Irvine’s Department of Earth System Science, studies sea ice to among other things determine whether it influences weather in the middle latitudes. “Budget cuts to the satellite network would not only affect climate monitoring but would also affect weather monitoring,” Labe said. The satellites are essential for researchers and weather forecasters here and worldwide, he added. “There in Alaska, there are a lot of locations that don’t have radar observations and Doppler radar for weather,” Labe said. “Meteorologists in Alaska rely on the satellite network to provide weather forecasts.”. But Labe ...

Nelson, Rubio Fight Back Over Proposed Cuts To Coast Guard, Noaa And Fema

... for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Coast Guard, grows 6.4 percent to $43.8 billion, according to the plan, which was obtained by the Washington Post. Some $2.9 billion of that would go to building the wall on the U. S.-Mexico border, with $1.9 billion funding "immigration detention beds" and other Immigration and Customs Enforcement expenses, and $285 million set aside to hire 500 more Border Patrol agents and 1,000 more ICE agents and support staff. As the pilot of a WP-3 Orion hurricane hunting airplane, NOAA Capt. Michael Silah knows what it is like to navigate intense storms. Now, as head of NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center, which is moving from Mac Dill Air Force Base to Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, he is trying to navigate the latest political storm. Because the budget cuts are considered "pre-decisional," Silah, like others contacted for this story, won't address specifics. But he said the Aircraft Operations Center's $22 million annual budget, spent on flying planes into and around storms to help determine track and intensity, is ...

Nasa, Noaa Satellites See Winter Storm Madness 'march' To The East

... they are, and stronger the storm. Infrared data, such as that gathered by the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, can provide that important information. When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the eastern U. S. on March 13 at 07:35 UTC (3:35 a.m. EST), it took a reading of ground and cloud top temperatures. AIRS detected some strong storms with cloud top temperatures as cold as minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) stretching from Michigan southwest through Illinois and into southeastern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. Those storms have the capability to produce heavy precipitation, which in this case would be heavy snowfall rates. AIRS data also showed the temperatures at the surface on the East coast (and ahead of the Midwest system) were as cold as 270 kelvin or 26.33 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 3.15 degrees Celsius). That's cold enough for snow to stick on the ground. Making a Satellite Movie of the Storm. The path of the Midwest low pressure system was captured in a NASA animation or movie using infrared and visible imagery from NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental or GOES East satellite. The imagery ...

Here Are The Most Incredible Life Forms Noaa Found On Its Latest Deep Sea Dive

... can also be found in the American Samoa. A chrysogorgiid octocoral with a brittle sea star clinging to it. (Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2017 American Samoa). While investigating the Utu Seamount in the NMSAS, the researchers spied an area of loose rock that likely formed from volcanic material that had broken off a crater wall and rolled down a hill. This area is now home to a wide range of aquatic life, including chrysogorgiid octocorals and brittle sea stars (both pictured above). Also at the Utu Seamount, the researchers stumbled upon rhopalonematid trachymedusa , a transluscent jellyfish with a very UFO-like appearance. Its reproductive organs can be seen in bright yellow, and its digestive system appears in red. The creature’s two unique set of tentacles—one facing up and once facing down—likely help it to ...

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Noaa National Marine Fisheries Service, U.s. Coast Guard Respond To Entangled Subadult Humpback Whale Off Maui

... present condition is good. With the removal of the gear, the chances of its survival have been greatly improved. Mariners are asked to keep a sharp lookout for this and other whales in distress, but not to approach closely or attempt to assist them. Only trained and well-equipped responders that are authorized under NOAA Fisheries’ Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program are permitted to assist whales and other marine mammals. If you sight any marine mammal in distress, maintain 100 yards distance and please call the NOAA 24-hour hotline at 1-888 256-9840. If unable to call, please radio the U. S. Coast Guard on VHF CH. 16 and they will relay the report. It is illegal to approach a humpback whale closer than 100 yards by any means by sea and 1,000 feet by aircraft. Please direct questions to. Shannon Lyday Ruseborn, ...