19 days ago by MikeTheActuary

Via Jeff Masters’ blog at Weather Underground, NASA mentioned that one of the more useful tools in tropical weather monitoring was lost early this week: Several hours ago, shortly past 7:00Z today (23Nov), telemetry received from QuikSCAT indicates that the antenna rotation rate has dropped to zero ...

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20 days ago by skyweek

Die gesamte Erdoberfläche – aus 9500 Landsat-Bildern „Absolut gratis“ und „zugänglich fr jedermann“ ist ein gewaltiges Mosaik aus Farbbildern der Landsat-Satelliten (und auch ein paar anderer, um Lcken zu schließen) von 2004-7: Auflösung durchgängig 30 Meter, nirgends Wolken, und jeder Punkt festen ...

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21 days ago by bbadmin

A critical antenna aboard the QuikSCAT satellite has apparently ceased to operate properly. Below is an excerpt about the SeaWinds instrument with further details to be found below the image. The SeaWinds instrument on the QuikSCAT satellite is a specialized microwave radar that measures near-surfac ...

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22 days ago by Ken Kaye

The QuikSCAT satellite has finally died. RIP. NASA reported its main antenna ceased working on Monday. It was due to go, anyway. It was launched in 1999 with a two-year life expectancy. Although it was used to monitor weather worldwide, QuikSCAT was perhaps best known for helping the National Hurric ...

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58 days ago by talk

Today, October 19, at 11 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. HST) Neki had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, and was moving west-northwest near 14 mph. Estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 millibars. It was 825 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii and about 830 miles southeast of Johnston Island near latitude 9.5 ...

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69 days ago by bbadmin

Another QuikSCAT image, this time of Typhoon Melor. Typhoon Melor was a weakening Category 2 typhoon on the morning of October 7, 2009, when the QuikSCAT satellite collected the observations used to make this image. The image depicts the wind field associated with the storm. The strongest winds are ...

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71 days ago by mischa06

(Super) Typhoon „Melor“ ist auf dem Weg nach Japan. In 36 Stunden, am 8. Oktober morgens (Ortszeit) wird es wohl sdlich von Nagoya einschlagen. Fast auf den Punkt genau dort, wo im September 1959 Taifun „Vera“ die bisher schlimmsten Verwstungen auf den japanischen Inseln der letzten Jahrzehnte anger ...

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72 days ago by bbadmin

QuikSCAT image of Tropical Storm Parma. On October 5, 2009, Typhoon Parma was parked over the South China Sea off the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines. Though the storm had degraded into a tropical storm, with relatively weak winds of 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour or 55 kno ...

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82 days ago by Ken Kaye

The QuikSCAT weather satellite, which helps forecasters track remote tropical systems, may be on its last legs, U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, said today. Klein said he received an internal memo from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, alerting that bearings on the satellite are ...

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