{"id":24263,"date":"2024-02-01T17:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=24263"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:13:49","slug":"space-lasers-have-revealed-a-wealth-of-climate-data-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/02\/01\/space-lasers-have-revealed-a-wealth-of-climate-data-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Space lasers have revealed a wealth of climate data over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has sifted through two decades of climate data collected by NASA&#039;s laser pulses, and says it paints a sobering picture while underscoring the need to continue such missions. <span>&quot;Satellite laser altimeters accurately measure how the Earth&#039;s surface is evolving on a global scale,&quot; says study co-author Beata Csatho, Ph.D., professor and co-chair of the University at Buffalo&#039;s Department of Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences. .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&quot;Repeated measurements could reveal even small changes in the elevation of land, ice and water levels, which is critical to understanding the processes that drive these changes and their impact.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A satellite laser altimeter sends a pulse of laser beam from space that illuminates a specific area on Earth and then bounces back. The topography \u2013 height and shape \u2013 of an area can be determined by how far the laser travels and how long it takes to bounce back. (<em>Tom Dinki, University at Buffalo, phys.org)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists sifted through two decades of climate data collected by NASA\u2019s laser pulses and says it paints a sobering picture while also highlighting the need for such missions to continue. \u201cSatellite laser altimeters precisely measure how the Earth\u2019s surface is evolving on a global scale,\u201d says study co-author Beata Csatho, Ph.D., professor and co-chair of the Department of Geology at the University at Buffalo [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}