• What is space weather?
• What is The SARSAT Program?
• What is a Tsunami?
• What is the NDGC? What is the NOAA Satellite and Information Service?
• What is NOAA's Arctic Ecosystem Studies page?
• What is Wind Chill and how does it affect my body?
• What does Relative Humidity Mean?
• What is the Dew Point?
• What is the difference between dew point and humidity.....
• How do I convert from mph to knots (or m/s)?
• How do I convert from inches of mercury to mb (or hPa)?
• How do I convert convert degrees of latitude to miles (or kilometers) ?
• What is eyewall replacement?
• What is wind shear mean in a hurricane?
• Why do hurricanes travel westward?

Our space weather is a consequence of the behavior of the Sun, the nature of Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, and our location in the solar system. Space weather affects our daily lives.

For more on space weather, click the link below...
»www.spaceref.com/spaceweather/

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by ghostpainter edited by Axilla
last modified: 2005-10-05 23:59:51

The SARSAT Program protects life and property by providing accurate, timely, and reliable distress alert and location information
to search and rescue authorities.

»www.sarsat.noaa.gov/

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by ghostpainter edited by Axilla
last modified: 2005-10-06 00:01:03

Tsunamis are a series of very long waves generated by any rapid, large-scale disturbance of the sea. Most are generated by sea floor displacements from large undersea earthquakes.

»www.noaa.gov/tsunamis.html

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-10-06 10:54:33

NGDC acquires, processes, and analyzes technical data on earthquake hazards, and disseminates the data in many useable formats.

»www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/earthqk.shtml

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
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The Arctic is a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, including organisms living in the ice, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals and human societies.

»www.arctic.noaa.gov/index.shtml

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by ghostpainter edited by Axilla
last modified: 2005-10-06 18:27:21

The apparent temperature which describes the cooling effect on exposed skin by the combination of temperature and wind, expressed as the loss of body heat. Increased wind speed will accelerate the loss of body heat. A wind chill factor of 30 degrees or lower on exposed skin will result in frostbite in a short period of time.

»www.nws.noaa.gov/om/windchill/index.shtml

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-10-14 05:57:35

Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air and can be described in different ways.

The term that you'll hear most often to describe the humidity is relative humidity. This is the measurement of humidity that's hardest to understand.

For more click this link...
»www.usatoday.com/weather/whumdef.htm

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-10-15 08:15:48

The dew point temperature is the temperature to which the air must be cooled to reach saturation (assuming air pressure remains the same). The dew point is a direct measure of the amount of moisture present in the air, and directly affects how you feel... or in other words... measures the amount of humidity in the air. Remember, the temperature never drops below its dew point, but can drop to it. Generally, we start to feel some discomfort when the dew point gets to or just above 60 degrees

»ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guide···ewp.rxml

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-10-15 08:16:16

What is the difference between dew point and humidity and what effect does it have on the heat index?

Simple answer; warm air can hold more water than cold air

For more click here....
»www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/w···0012.htm

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by ghostpainter edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-10-15 08:16:39

1 mile per hour = 0.869 international nautical mile per hour (knot)
1 mile per hour = 1.609 kilometers per hour
1 mile per hour = 0.4470 meter per second
1 knot = 1.852 kilometers per hour
1 knot = 0.5144 meter per second
1 meter per second = 3.6 kilometers per hour

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:07:44

1 inch of mercury = 25.4 mm of mercury = 33.86 millibars
= 33.86 hectoPascals

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:08:51

1 foot = 0.3048 meter
1 international nautical mile = 1.1508 statute miles
= 1.852 kilometers = .99933 U.S nautical mile (obsolete)
1° latitude = 69.047 statute miles = 60 nautical miles
= 111.12 kilometers
For longitude the conversion is the same as latitude except the value is multiplied by the cosine of the latitude.

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:09:24

Eyewall replacement is a process that major hurricanes, especially powerful major hurricanes undertake when they try to reorganize, and get stronger. An outer eyewall develops around the original eyewall, and begins to sap the inner eyewall of its intensity and moisture, and thus become the dominant eyewall.

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:10:34

Wind shear is a term given to upper level winds that blow from west to east against a westward bound hurricane, which tears up the hurricane's clouds, and hinders tropical development.

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:11:37

Hurricanes travel in a westward direction because in the tropics and subtropics, the Bermuda high, Bermuda-Azores high, or the subtropical ridge is the primary steering feature in the Atlantic. Air rotates clockwise around a high pressure system, which creates an easterly, or southeasterly flow that pushes tropical storms and hurricanes to the west.

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by Budster edited by Axilla
last modified: 2006-08-31 07:13:46