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Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card 3 Feb 2010 | 12:39 pm
A 10 percent drop in water vapor ten miles above Earth’s surface has had a big impact on global warming, say researchers in a study published online January 28 in the journal Science. The findings mig...
ESRL tests young scientist’s invention 27 Jan 2010 | 12:35 pm
Hunter Solheim is both a Boulder middle school student and the inventor of an instrument to measure the temperature of the bottoms of clouds. Combined with radar data, the instrument would let researc...
Soaring for Science: NOAA-NASA unmanned craft to soar over Pacific Ocean this spring 27 Jan 2010 | 12:35 pm
In February, scientists will begin recieving the first data from unmanned 30 hour flights over the Pacific Ocean to measure water vapor, ozone, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrogen, methane, a...
Airborne Lidar Catches Algae 27 Jan 2010 | 12:35 pm
ESRL’s Jim Churnside (Chemical Sciences Division) has used lidar instruments on airplanes to find schools of fish and squid. He’s used lidar—which bounces laser light off distant objects and captures ...
