Its data may allow scientists to better understand and predict how various surface features absorb and reflect solar radiation, which influence both short-term weather patterns and longer-term climate trends.
Nonetheless, the firm, along with everyone else in its industry, has had to weather a post-recession climate in which big companies that once booked splashy gatherings with nary a glance at their budget now opt for more modest events.
These will be spread like wild-fires by frequent climate change-induced weather events of catastrophic proportions.
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This is an interesting way of using the power of crowdsourcing to cut costs and increase the turn-around time of weather and climate modeling.
In addition to its weather-watching mission and collection of climate records, MSG-3 has a radiation sensor to measures the amount of solar and infrared energy that is reflected back into space, to better understand climate processes.
For others, it is about time that the biggest game of the year was staged in a climate that cold-weather teams are accustomed to.
It describes the decadal projections as part of an experimental effort launched in 2004 to fill the gap between daily weather forecasts and century-long estimates for climate change.
Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
The scientists said there was no evidence that the weather changes were a result of Man-made climate change.
The recent heat wave that has fried much of the country, ruined crops and led to heat-related deaths has again raised the question of whether this and other extreme weather events can be attributed to human-induced climate change.
Climate changes and shorter-term weather events are the way nature balances itself, move heat and moisture around, and provide motivations for species to evolve.
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Airbus Military says it will be capable of operating in any type of climate and weather conditions, providing an in-flight refuelling capability.
But, as Stewart claims, the climate-controlled Rogers Centre fits Toronto weather perfectly.
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These large warm and cold, high and low sea levels are slow-developing and long-lasting, and will certainly influence global climate and weather for the coming summer and into next fall.
Mr McCallum admitted in a news conference in April that seasonal forecasting was still in its infancy - a cross between climate change prediction and tomorrow's weather forecast.
According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
Of the 300, 000 lives being lost each year due to climate change, the report finds nine out of 10 are related to "gradual environmental degradation, " and that deaths caused by climate-related malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria outnumber direct fatalities from weather-related disasters.
With more than 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism, Allen has also worked at NBC News, MSNBC and The Weather Channel, where she served as the network's first full-time environment and climate correspondent.
The Super Bowl has always been held in warm-weather cities, like New Orleans, Tampa or San Diego, or in the controlled climate of a dome, where a roof shields fans from the weather outside.
Short-term weather patterns such as the one that affected the United States are poor indicators of global climate trends, however.
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The world had already been witnessing wild weather for years, but in 2001, scientists under the UN's Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, formed a consensus on the causes.
The combined impacts of projected climate change and socio-economic development is set to see the damage costs of extreme weather events continue to increase.
This is no short-term uptick: insured losses due to extreme weather have been trending upward for 30 years, as the climate has changed and populations in coastal areas and other vulnerable places have grown.
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While this excellent overview was published last December, the numbers are revealing in ways perhaps least understood: we can engender actuarial tables for insurers and re-insurers with respect to human mortalities directly or indirectly correlated to climate change (as in extreme weather events, etc.).
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