Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Earth’s cryosphere


http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/index.jsp?id=win2006

A Short Tour of the Cryosphere (Non-Interactive Media)

Credit: Jennifer Brennan, ADNET Systems Inc./NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Waleed Abdalati, Horace Mitchell, Ryan Boller, Lori Perkins, Greg Shirah, Carol Boquist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Walter Meier, Ronald Weaver, Mary Jo Brodzik, Richard Armstrong, National Snow and Ice Data Center; Alex Kekesi, Cindy Starr, Tom Bridgman, Randall Jones, Marte Newcombe, Stuart Snodgrass, Eric Sokolowsky, Jarret Cohen, Brian Krupp, Global Science and Technology, Inc.; Kevin Mahoney, Computer Science Corporation; Michael Starobin, Mike Velle, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

The chain of interactions between Earth’s cryosphere and its climate is endless, and this 5-minute animation gives a bird’s-eye view of it all – from the crumbling Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica to the shrinking sea ice in the Arctic to the season ebb and flow of the snow cover in the Rockies.

Qi Physics- Magnetism




Magnetism
http://www.tombender.org/energeticsarticles/qi_physics.pdf

http://www.tombender.org/qienergyslideshow/index.html

NASA -secret life of clouds

Event:The Secret Life of Clouds:
New Findings From NASA's CloudSat and A-Train

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/news/secret_clouds.html
A little more than a year and a half into its primary mission, NASA's CloudSat satellite, working in tandem with the other Earth-observing satellites in NASA's "A-Train," is now yielding a treasure trove of new data that are helping scientists better understand the enormous influence clouds have on Earth's weather, climate and energy balance. Researchers present results that include discovery of a link between observed decreases in polar clouds last summer and a corresponding loss of Arctic sea ice; surprising new global estimates of how frequently clouds rain over Earth's oceans that suggest the need to reassess the intensity of Earth's water cycle and its impact on climate models; and the first global evidence that the small aerosol particles in our atmosphere may be polluting clouds, making them more reflective.

Related Links:

> CloudSat/CALIPSO Launch Press Kit 1.9 Mb (PDF)
> Pre-Launch Audio Clips
> CloudSat Fact Sheet (437Kb - PDF)
> Science Writers' Guide: CALIPSO, CloudSat, GRACE (2.6Mb - PDF)
> Aerosols: More Than Meets the Eye (951Kb - PDF)
> The Importance of Understanding Clouds (449Kb - PDF)
> The Balance of Power in the Earth-Sun System (605Kb - PDF)


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/mystery_clouds.html
NASA Satellite Reveals Unprecedented View of Mysterious
'Night-Shining' Clouds
12.10.2007
Cynthia O'Carroll / Bill Steigerwald
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.


Release No. 07-75

GREENBELT, Md. - NASA's AIM satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface.

The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission is the first satellite dedicated to the study of these noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds. They are called "night shining" clouds by observers on the ground because their high altitude allows them to continue reflecting sunlight after the sun has set below the horizon. AIM has provided the first global-scale view of the clouds over the entire 2007 Northern Hemisphere season with an unprecedented horizontal resolution of 3 miles by 3 miles.

Very little is known about these 'clouds at the edge of space', also called Polar Mesospheric Clouds. How do they form over the summer poles, why are they being seen at lower latitudes than ever before, and why have they been growing brighter and more frequent? During its mission lifetime, AIM will observe a total of two complete polar mesospheric cloud seasons in each polar region, documenting for the first time the entire complex life cycle of Polar Mesospheric Clouds.

Ice thickness and sea level change

Nasa Conferences and Workshops

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE THICKNESS FROM PASSIVE MICROWAVE RETRIEVALS OF SNOW DEPTH
TIME: Tues., Dec. 11, 5:40 p.m. EST (2:40 p.m. PST), MW 3006
SESSION: C23B-05
Antarctic sea ice thickness estimates from satellite altimeters are dependent on accurate estimates of snow depth. Satellite data provide a good indicator of snow depth over broad scales in most cases and for all areas except for the East Antarctic sector. NASA’s Thorsten Markus of Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will discuss how satellite snow depth can provide reasonable estimates of regionally-averaged ice thicknesses.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/agu2007_tips.html

SATELLITE AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF REGIONAL SEA LEVEL CHANGE: WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT FUTURE CHANGES?
TIME: Thurs., Dec. 13, 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST), MW 3003
SESSION: G44A-01
Satellite altimetry has provided precise sea level measurements since the early 1990s. Melting of mountain glaciers and the polar ice sheets are expected to create distinct patterns of regional sea level change. While these have yet to be detected in satellite altimeter data, satellite gravity missions such as NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) provide a means of monitoring ice melt contributions directly. With these and other tools we can begin to put together a framework for predicting what regional sea level change will look like in the future.

Ice/Water behaviour

ice behaviour
water behaviour

http://www.colorado.edu/UCB/AcademicAffairs/ArtsSciences/physics/PhysicsInitiative/Physics2000/applets/h2ob.html

Atmospheric Pollution - DATA DRIVEN




http://dreamaddictive.com/ap/
mexico
Atmospheric Pollution - by DreamAddictive Lab (Carmen Gonzales and Leslie Garcia) - “is a data visualization about anthropogenic contaminants issued to our atmosphere. Through and interactive schematic model is represented the atmospheric space phenomenon as well as the chemical and physical events, representing a dynamic link between pollutants and their effects on the planet’s health and the people who inhabit it.

The structure of the display is composed of two navigation menus: the first explores the atmospheric layers and the second displays the anthropogenic residues, simulating behavior. The descriptive information of each segment appears in a dynamic way when the cursor detects its transit. We seek the user visualize the dimension of the productive layer of the atmosphere and the effects of human intervention in it …”

their reviews- potential starting points

autonomous architecture

http://corpora.ycam.jp/en/online.html



http://corpora.ycam.jp/en/online_071201_01.html
1. map of environment data from mesh network in YCAM & the central park

http://corpora.ycam.jp/en/online_080101_02.html
2. analytic image of sky above YCAM
Corpora in Si(gh)te doubleNegatives Architecture


autonomous architecture

16 January 2008

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Organizer: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Support: Embassy of Switzerland, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Tokyo, Yamaguchi City, The Board of Education of Yamaguchi City
Special Cooperation: University of the Arts Zurich (ZHdK), Department Interaction Design, Zurich Switzerland, Nextlab, Budapest Hungary
Cooperation: The Asahi Shimbun
Produced by: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
Co-production: YCAM InterLab
Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

an augmented reality architectural form, driven by real time environmental information such as temperature, brightness, humidity, wind direction and sound. nodes reflecting the sensor network are the seeds for the virtual architecture, growing and subsiding like an organism.

[link: corpora.ycam.jp & doublenegatives.jp |thnkx thedlab]
see also: stranger than fiction infographics, statistical wall numbers & rixome.

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