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Global evaporation and precipitation differences, the main elements in the global water cycle.

New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts

June 13, 2011 rockman Comments Off

The salinity of the ocean is one component of global climate modeling, and up until now, it is a component with sparse and irregular data points. Traditional salinity measurements have been taken by ship, buoy […]

Overview of the UAVSAR interferogram of the magnitude 7.2 Baja California earthquake of April 4, 2010, overlaid atop a Google Earth image of the region. Major fault systems are shown by red lines, while recent aftershocks are denoted by yellow, orange and

NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth

June 28, 2010 rockman Comments Off

The JPL folks used UAVSAR mounted on their Gulfstream-III aircraft to take highly accurate radar measurements of the ground surface in Baja, California, near the site of the April 4, 2010 magnitude 7.2 Baja earthquake […]

NASA JPL Gulf Stream III research test bed with Synthetic Aperture Radar pod underneath.

Good Stuff From Ontario-geofish

June 17, 2009 rockman Comments Off

NASA JPL Gulf Stream III research test bed with Synthetic Aperture Radar pod underneath. This is not the first time I’ve posted links to blog posts from the Ontario-geofish blog by Harold A. Some times I blatantly rip him off, but hopefully he doesn’t mind since I try to credit him whenever I post about an article he found. I guess he has more time for surfing since he’s retired! 🙂 Here are a couple of his recent posts that I found interesting. (Image by NASA)

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