Topic 1c - Climate Change

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Positions shown are of the floats that have delivered data within the last 30 days (18/07/2016).</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>ARGO/UCSD</p> </div> <p> <a href="http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/">http://www.argo.ucsd.edu</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-radiosonde-network"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00224/00008/b5b389/image3.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-radiosonde-network" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">Global Radiosonde Network</a> <p>The Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations at over 2,700 globally distributed stations, measuring variables including pressure, temperature, geopotential height, relative humidity, dew point depression, wind direction and speed, and elapsed time..</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>The Comet Program</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-surface-solar-radiation"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00225/00008/bb9e5f/image4.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-surface-solar-radiation" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">Global Surface Solar Radiation </a> <p>From 2005-2009, Solar incoming & reflected,thermal outgoing & netto, Radiation Budget</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>EUMETSAT CM-SAF</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-surface-station-network"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00223/00008/cccbb8/image2.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/global-surface-station-network" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">Global Surface Station Network</a> <p>Global map of surface stations that monitor climate from the Earth鈥檚 surface</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>The Comet Program/NOAA</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/hamburg-ocean-atmosphere-parameters-and-fluxes-from-satellite"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00227/00008/ad7811/image7.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/hamburg-ocean-atmosphere-parameters-and-fluxes-from-satellite" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data (HOAPS) (2)</a> <p>Without intercalibration. (HOAPS) set is a completely satellite based climatology of precipitation, evaporation and freshwater budget (evaporation minus precipitation) as well as related turbulent heat fluxes and atmospheric state variables over the global ice free oceans</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>EUMETSAT</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/rhomax-time-series"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00228/00008/532599/image8.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/rhomax-time-series" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">Rhomax Time Series</a> <p>Maximum solar activity (rhoMax)</p> <div class="image-copyright"><p>EUMETSAT</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="courses-collection w-dyn-item w-col w-col-4"> <div class="courses-wrapper associated-media" style=" box-shadow: none;"> <div class="courses-photo"> <a class="image image-image" href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/the-hamburg-ocean-atmosphere-parameters-and-fluxes-from"> <img src="https://dhvptdf78rzwk.cloudfront.net/00226/00008/863eec/image6.preview.png" alt="" class="courses-image" style="x-max-height: 255px;"/> </a> </div> <div class="courses-content" style="padding: 0; padding-top: 15px; background-color: transparent; line-height: 125% !important;"> <a href="/monitoring-the-oceans-from-space/week-1-oceans-and-climate/topic-1c-climate-change/the-hamburg-ocean-atmosphere-parameters-and-fluxes-from" class="courses-title" style="color: #000; font-size: 1em; text-transform: uppercase;">The Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data (HOAPS) </a> <p>With intercalibration. 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