Planning for Operation IceBridge’s Antarctic Mission
After having been to northern Greenland (Thule Air Base) for the first time back in May (see Part I & Part II), there might be a chance that I’ll travel down to the southern tip of South America in November. The Antarctic part of NASAOperation IceBridge (OIB) is based at Punta Arenas, Chile, and involves science flights on the [...]
Remote Sensing the Somali Drought
Source: Wired Science The above satellite animation from the European Space Agency (ESA) depicts 16 weeks of soil moisture levels in the Horn of Africa, including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The latter nation, which lies along the Horn’s eastern edge, hasn’t seen rain in two years and almost 80 percent of its livestock have perished as a [...]
Maps of the New Climate Normal in the U.S.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory In July 2011, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center updated the U.S. Climate Normals: three-decade averages of weather observations, including temperature. The new annual normal temperatures for the United States reflect a warming world. Following procedures set by the World Meteorological Organization, normals shift each decade, rather than each year. As of [...]
First Visit to North Greenland – I
After a five-hour flight from Baltimore Washington International Airport, I landed at the Thule Air Base in northwestern Greenland as part of Columbia University’s team in NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB). The program is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth’s polar regions that began in the Fall of 2009. The flights in March and [...]
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