NASA's mission team for the recently launched OCO-2 satellite has reported preliminary results on its performance and on observations of the atmosphere at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco . The goal is to map carbon dioxide concentration in the vertical column of air between the ground and the OCO-2 satellite, and to detect sources …
The Level of Sylvan Lake Today Is…….
Click here to view the level of Sylvan Lake and the trend as evaporation takes over after July 1. Lake level data are logged continuously and reported on that Alberta Environment web page. Can you calculate how much water is lost daily at this time of year?
Total Precipitation and Sylvan Lake Level
Sylvan Lake watchers have conflicting personal opinions about lake level. This post presents some facts about the one factor that causes the lake level to rise: the Total Precipitation that falls on the watershed area each year. Other factors cause the lake level to drop, particularly seasonal evaporation and transpiration from land, crops and foliage …
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Updates to and ENSO Observations from the WUWT Ocean Reference Page
Image Credit: Monterey Marine Meteorology Division – HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts”
In making several updates to the WUWT Ocean Reference Page I observed something in the Sea Surface Temperature animation above, that I’ve seen a few times before. More about that below, but first the reason for the updates. The Naval Research Laboratory Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) was “scheduled to be retired on 5 April 2013 and replaced by operational 1/12° HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model or HYCOM.” The “HYCOM consortium is a multi-institutional effort sponsored by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP), as part of the U. S. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model (called HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model or HYCOM).” Here is HYCOM’s home page of and here is the system background
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Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society 