Michael G. Bosilovich
Call for Papers – Climate Consensus: Steps Toward a Global Understanding of Climate
Earthzine is soliciting articles of 800–3,000 words for its first quarter 2012 theme on climate. We seek contributions addressing current issues, techniques and applications of Earth information for assessing the state of the climate, predicting near and long-term variations, the social benefits of climate monitoring and the humanitarian implications of climate information.
Michael G. Bosilovich, posted on
October 31st, 2011
Announcements, Climate Consensus
NASA’s Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications: Integrating Earth Observations
There are advantages and disadvantages to reanalyses for climate study. The main advantages are that global Earth observations (disparate distributions in space and time) are assimilated leading to uniformly gridded and globally available data. Reanalyses also combine many different types of observations into a single analysis.
Michael G. Bosilovich, posted on
September 26th, 2008
Articles, Climate, Earth Observation
NASA Daily Image
Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode