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How do satellites calculate co2 emissions?

How do satellites calculate co2 emissions?


How do satellites calculate co2 emissions?

Posted: 25 Aug 2019 02:28 AM PDT

I've been trying to find a good source of information but so far I haven't been able to find how do these satellites calculate carbon emissions.

I see that Europe , USA and China among other have satellites to read carbon emissions and some with errors of no more than 0.5%

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/12/16460014/nasa-oco-2-satellite-carbon-dioxide-earth-atmosphere-plants-ocean-climate-change

https://www.governmenteuropa.eu/satellites-monitoring-co2-emissions/93413/

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Do taller people have higher than average blood pressure?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 04:07 PM PDT

Why does water create suction on flat surfaces?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 06:06 PM PDT

I've noticed that sometimes when a hard objedt is wet on its bottom that it can grip flat surfaces. It takes more effort to remove from the surface and there seems to be a suction-like effect where the water is. Why is this? Is it related to surface tension?

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Is it always raining somewhere?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 03:46 PM PDT

Can the music you fall asleep to change your dreams?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:57 PM PDT

Mainly regarding binaural beats or hemi sync technology ,can falling asleep to this sounds make you aware in your dreams,or change brain activity during sleep?

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Does (or how does) the non-spectral color we see as magenta differ from the visible spectrum of colors for animals with more than three cones in their eyes?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 09:02 PM PDT

If magenta is not an actual wavelength of light but a mixture of two opposite ends of the spectrum that our brain then interprets, does that work the same even for creatures with 4, 5, or 12 cones that can see more color, or does color vision in general have to perform some sort of "trick" or interpretation of mixed red and blue light since they're at opposite ends of a linear spectrum? I'm having a hard time understanding and separating the physics from the biology, or is this all just speculative because we can't ask a bird what it sees?

If that's the case, what about (not fully) color blind people; does the brain/eye still have to do some sort of trick when the highest visible wavelength "reds" (~700nm) mixes with the lowest visible "blues" (400nm) to interpret that color?

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How do the kidneys know how much water to filter out of the blood they process?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 11:09 AM PDT

How do humans determine the location of sounds?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 10:35 AM PDT

Is it based solely on differences in amplitude between the ears, or are we able to detect the minor delay as well?

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How do scientists measure CMB radiation difference in temperature of 0,001%?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:01 PM PDT

Are there any species that exibit both parthenogenesis and temperature based sex determination? If not it there a reason it wouldn't work?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:55 PM PDT

With the Amazon fires what impact will it have on all the different wildlife there?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 08:44 AM PDT

Im assuming the Amazon is home to millions of different species and even some native, so are we looking at possible huge decreases in population? Will species be on the brink of endangerment? Is there any sort of way to tell how much life has been lost?

The wildlife is honestly my only big personal concern from all of this and i dont really see anyone else talking about it.

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If a plant that has seasonal traits (such as winter dormancy) is taken from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere, will the plant exhibit traits based upon its place of origin, or will it adjust to the weather of the new location?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 12:50 PM PDT

Is it possible for planets to have rings in a different orientation as opposed to "along and around the equator". If yes/no, why?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 04:02 AM PDT

I recently found out that the rings are formed by debris rotating around the planet in the same axis as the planet. But i was wondering if it is not possible for them to form in a different orientation.

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Has the exoplanet search changed the Drake Equation results?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 07:46 AM PDT

With the various methods used in the search for exoplanets, has there been a determination as to a percentage of stars that do and do not harbor planets? Habitable planets? Has this number changed the possible results of the Drake Equation which Dr Carl Sagan promoted?

f(p): the fraction of stellar bodies that have planets around them Ne: the average number of habitable planets or moons in any given solar system

Or is the sample size too small to make a determination at this time?

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Where does the earth’s oxygen actually come from?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 05:13 AM PDT

I'm starting this with I believe in climate change but I'm sick and tired of misleading and exaggerated climate change rhetoric. The tipping point for me was the rainforest fires and all the "stats" being thrown around without context.

People are saying that 20% of the world's oxygen comes from the rainforest. They also say 80% if the world's oxygen comes from the ocean's phytoplankton... any child with a basic grasp of simple arithmetic could tell you that adds up to 100% and anyone with more than half a brain can tell you that makes no sense. 100% of the planets entire oxygen output does not come from these two places. There's millions of square kilometres of plantlife in Africa, Russia, Canada, the US and other places where oxygen is produced.

So my question stands. Where does our oxygen actually come from?

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Why is tickling unpleasant? What IS tickling?

Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:17 AM PDT

If I had to explain the sensation to an alien, I would pretty much come up blank. It's not pain, and it's not so severe that it can't be a joke between people, but it's still something that we automatically shrink away from.

So just what is it, and what purpose does the function serve?

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