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This strategic line of business focuses on developing technologies that are needed to observe and understand changes in the Earth's climate system. These technologies include:
- State-of-the-art remote sensors and
- Aircraft-based and surface-based observation platforms
Near-term plans include:
- Conduct research to achieve 7- to 10-day weather forecasts. Quantify the global fresh water cycle, variation in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and forest and ocean carbon stocks. Assimilate ocean surface winds, tropospheric winds, and precipitation into climate- and weather-forecasting models.
- Employ distributed computing and data mining techniques for control and advanced instruments, and demonstrate a new generation of small instruments.
IRAD Point of Contact:
Bob Connerton
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