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Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:47 AM

Salinity

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Salinity

description: The percentage of salt in water.

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

European Space Agency

SMOS Begins Its Science Operations

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), a part of the Living Planet Program, has recently finished activating its MIRAS instrument, the primary science payload. The agency made the announcement recently, highlighting ... [Softpedia - 11/20/2009]

Entities: European Space Agency, Salinity, Aperture Synthesis, Radiometer A/S, SOIL MOISTURE

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Meat a global saviour, not sinner

The Land reported on October 29 (p15) that Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the UKâs influential Stern Report on climate change in 2006, now advocates vegetarianism, declaring meat âa wasteful use of waterâ and something that âcreates a lot of greenhouse ... [Farm Online, The Land - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Nicholas Stern, Carbon, Biota

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Post-Aila, farmers wake up to forgotten salt-resistant paddy varieties

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge, the farmers of the Sunderbans were pinning hope on the low-yield but salt-resistant paddy varieties that their forefathers cultivated. ... [Indian Express - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Salinity, Cyclone Aila, Salt Water

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Application Note: Optical Dissolved Oxygen In Wastewater Effluent

It is important to measure dissolved oxygen in the wastewater effluent before discharge. The concentration of DO in water is affected by ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure, and salinity of sample. The Rugged Dissolved Oxygen (RDO) probe features ... [Water Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Wastewater, Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Energy)

Microwave-Assisted Procedure for Salinity Evaluation of Heavy Crude Oil Emulsions†

Energy & Fuels, Volume 0, Issue 0, Articles ASAP (As Soon As Publishable). ... [Energy & Fuels - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Emulsions, Salinity, Crude Oil

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

The Missing Piece: Utilizing evaporation technology to dewater RO reject wastewater

Reverse Osmosis reject often has high salinity making it prohibitive for discharge to the local sewer facility and expensive to have hauled away. The white paper discusses the advantages of evaporation in general, as well as the differences between Thermal ... [Environmental Expert - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Evaporation, Wastewater, Discharge, Reverse Osmosis

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents

First SMOS data received

This image is the first data sent to Earth by the MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched on 2 November. It was acquired as part of the initial functional verification test since the instrument was switched on on Tuesday.The image depicts non-calibrated ... [European Space Agency - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Calibration, Aperture Synthesis, Radiometer A/S

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

NOAA expands its World Ocean Database

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a major update to its World Ocean Database, a repository of information dating back to 1800 and widely used by climate scientists and weather forecasters around the world.The update, the ... [GCN - 9 hours ago]

Entities: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Database, Salinity, Categories of Data

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Biotechnology-regulations: A pressing imperative for developing countries

In most developed countries, regulations are in place that allow governments to make informed decisions in balancing potential benefits and potential risks of biotechnology products. But this is not the case in many developing countriesIt is, therefore, ... [Jamaica Gleaner - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Genetically Modified Crops, Biotechnology, Tolerance, Biosafety

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

70 percent of Cuba's farmland under threat

Seventy percent of Cuba's land under cultivation is being affected by erosion, salinity and acidity, agriculture ministry officials said.The director of the Soil Institute, Dagoberto Rodriguez, said Wednesday at a press conference in Havana that only ... [Sify - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cuba, Salinity, Acidity, Raúl Castro Ruz

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Expert details biological clean-up of oil-contaminated soil, water

MUSCAT — A presentation on the biological clean-up of oil-contaminated soil and water in Oman held recently at the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) was a huge success. Traditionally, chemicals or heat treatment is used to decontaminate ... [Oman Observer - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Oil Spill, Salinity, Microbe, Oman, Hydrocarbon

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Oceans’ Ability to Absorb CO2 May be Diminishing, New Study Says

A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere, the capacity of the world’s oceans to continue absorbing carbon appears to be decreasing. Researchers ... [CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Fuel Efficiency

Quotes

...atmosphere, it would raise carbon concentration levels to 460 parts per million, higher than what many scientists believe is the upper safe limit. "What we show is that the ocean sink is enormous" says Khatiwala. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places.)

Carbon Sinks: Oceans Absorbing Less Carbon Dioxide [Time - 21 hours ago]

...the optical fibres and the correlator unit, in perfect functioning condition,' said ESA's Manuel Martin-Neira, SMOS Instrument Principal Engineer. "We have been able to produce reasonable test data even without in-orbit calibration." MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) is an L-band radiometer with 69 receivers mounted on three deployed arms to measure the...

SMOS Satellite Instrument Comes Alive [Space Daily - 11/20/2009]

More Content

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EOI - Core Handling and Analyses Services for d... [Ocean Resources - 1 hour ago]
NOAA expands its World Ocean Database [GCN - 9 hours ago]
First SMOS data received [European Space Agency - 15 hours ago]
The Missing Piece: Utilizing evaporation techno... [Environmental Expert - 19 hours ago]
CryoSat: green light for launch campaign [European Space Agency - 19 hours ago]
Microwave-Assisted Procedure for Salinity Evalu... [Energy & Fuels - 19 hours ago]
Carbon Sinks: Oceans Absorbing Less Carbon Dioxide [Time - 21 hours ago]
BANGLADESH: Two years after Cyclone Sidr, survi... [IRIN - 22 hours ago]
SMOS Begins Its Science Operations [Softpedia - 11/20/2009]
Application Note: Optical Dissolved Oxygen In W... [Water Online - 11/20/2009]
SMOS Satellite Instrument Comes Alive [Space Daily - 11/20/2009]
CGC Polar Sea to Moor in Juneau [Military.com - 11/20/2009]
Are the Earth's Oceans Hitting Their Carbon Cap... [Yahoo! News - 11/19/2009]
What's in fracking water? A whole lot of salt w... [Houston Chronicle - 11/19/2009]
Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon is slowing dow... [Click Green - 11/19/2009]
Post-Aila, farmers wake up to forgotten salt-re... [Indian Express - 11/19/2009]
Oceans Struggle to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide [US News - 11/19/2009]
Meat a global saviour, not sinner [Farm Online, The Land - 11/19/2009]
SMOS Instrument Comes Alive [Red Orbit - 11/19/2009]
Expert details biological clean-up of oil-conta... [Oman Observer - 11/19/2009]
Biotechnology-regulations: A pressing imperativ... [Jamaica Gleaner - 11/19/2009]
Seas Grow Less Effective at Absorbing Emissions [New York Times - 11/19/2009]
70 percent of Cuba's farmland under threat [Sify - 11/19/2009]
Poor coral growth at Sindh, Balochistan coasts [The News International - 11/19/2009]
Ocean Losing Its Appetite for Carbon [National Geographic - 11/18/2009]
Oceans Said to Absorb Fewer Emissions [New York Times - 11/18/2009]
Farming needs to be global focus [Scientist Live - 11/18/2009]
Protecting the future: How plant stem cells g... [Checkbiotech - 11/18/2009]
World Summit on Food Security Highlights for Tu... [IISD - 11/18/2009]
Experts: Failure to focus on farming will under... [EurekAlert! - 11/18/2009]

Blogs

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Oceans’ Ability to Absorb CO2 May be Diminishin... [CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - 21 hours ago] A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere, the capacity ...
NOAA: new ocean database spans to 1800 [Watts Up With That? - 11/19/2009] Bill Illis and Bob Tisdale will likely make use of this. h/t to WUWT reader Chris D. NOAA Releases Expanded World Ocean Database Large wave breaking over bow ...
CO2 and ocean uptake – maybe slowing [Watts Up With That? - 11/19/2009] While this article makes a strong case, looking at SST and CO2 can also be revealing: A review of this WUWT post might also be instructive: A look at human CO2 ...
Reference: 450 skeptical peer reviewed papers [Watts Up With That? - 11/15/2009] Andrew at Popular Technology has taken the time (quite a bit of it) to compile a list of papers that have skeptical views. It is reproduced in full here. My thanks ...
Water and Space: call for papers [Wired: Beyond the Beyond - 11/11/2009] *They’re really out-there. CALL FOR PAPERS WATER and SPACE: Societal, Educational and Cultural aspects International Astronautical Congress 27th September – ...

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