As I’ve previously reported, a senior EPA policy analyst says that NOAA and the EPA have been “sock puppets” for BP.NOAA has repeatedly denied the existence of underwater oil plumes (see this and this), calculated the spill to be only 5,000 barrels a…
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When University Scientists Found Underwater Oil Plumes, the Government Said Shut Up, Don’t Tell Anyone … and Then Tried to Discredit Them
August 10th, 2010 |
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Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather
February 9th, 2010 |
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1870: President Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service. Forecasting models were simple but generally effective.
It had been obvious for centuries that weather in North America generally moves from west to east, or southwest to northeast. But other than looking upwind, that knowledge was little help in [...]
NOAA Tackles Climate Change
February 9th, 2010 |
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Responding to public demand for climate change information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to form a NOAA Climate Service line office and launches a new website to serve as a single point-of-entry for NOAAs extensive climate information, data, products and services.
– To accommodate the increasingly number of requests for climate change
information, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
said Feb. 8 it was creating a NOAA Climate Service line office
dedicated to bringing together the agencys climate science and service
delivery capabilitie…
NOAA Tackles Climate Change
February 9th, 2010 |
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Responding to public demand for climate change information, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to form an NOAA Climate Service line office and launches a new Website to serve as a single point of entry for NOAAs extensive climate information, data, products and services.
– To accommodate the increasingly number of requests for climate change
information, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Feb. 8 it
is creating an NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together
the agencys climate science and service delivery capabilities.
NO…
IBM ‘Stratus’ Supercomputer Is NOAA’s Newest Storm Chaser
September 9th, 2009 |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed the installation of its latest supercomputers, which will be used to help in forecasting weather and climate changes.
The massive Stratus supercomputer and its backup, Cirrus, will enable researchers to run more complex models in hopes of improving weather forecasting. NOAA also hopes to be able to increase the lead times for warnings about severe weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods and winter storms, as well as air quality alerts. The supercomputers are based on IBM’s Power 575 systems and are four times faster than the previous supercomputers NOAA was using.
Stratus will be able to reach 69.7 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, enough to make it the 56th fastest system in the world, according to the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers issued in June. Stratus will have billion of bytes of weather observations #151such as temperatures, wind speed, precipitation and atmospheric pressure #151fed into it each day.By Jeffrey Burt
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New IBM Supercomputers Boost NOAA Weather Forecasts
September 9th, 2009 |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration brings online two new IBM supercomputers capable of 69.7 trillion calculations per second to improve forecast accuracy and warning lead times for hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, tsunamis, winter storms and other severe weather.
– With the ability to make 69.7 trillion calculations per second, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s new supercomputers are gearing up to
quot;improve forecast accuracy and extend watch and warning lead times for
severe weather, including hurricanes, tornadoes, air quality, wild…