Tag: China Meteorological Administration
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China Establishes Unified Standards for GNSS Radio Occultation
China has approved four recommended national standards covering the full technical chain of GNSS radio occultation, from spaceborne sensing payloads to data processing and exchange, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of China said Sept. 11. The standards were developed under the coordination of the China Meteorological Administration and are intended…
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China Uses Fengyun Satellites and MAZU to Support Cross-Border Disaster Monitoring in Nepal
On Aug. 26, a high-altitude ice-and-rock avalanche occurred on the Nepalese side of the border, triggering a chain of cross-border debris flows that caused significant casualties and left people missing at Gyirong Port in China’s Gyirong County. Following the disaster, the China Meteorological Administration activated the Fengyun International User Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Emergency Support…
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China’s MAZU System Brings AI-Powered Early-Warning Capabilities to Weather-Vulnerable Regions
China is expanding an artificial-intelligence-based weather early-warning solution to developing countries, combining satellite observations, radar, buoy measurements and numerical weather models to deliver localized forecasts and alerts even where computing and communications infrastructure remain limited. Known as MAZU, the system was developed by the China Meteorological Administration to support global disaster-risk reduction and the United…
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Chinese weather satellite successfully boosted into orbit
A Long March 3A rocket launched the Fengyun 2H weather satellite Tuesday. Credit: CALT The last in an older generation of spin-stabilized Chinese weather satellites launched Tuesday toward a perch more than 22,000 miles over the equator, the start of a mission of at least four years monitoring tropical cyclones and other weather systems across…
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Chinese weather satellite launched into polar orbit
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan space center Tuesday with the Fengyun 3D weather satellite. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket launched Tuesday with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory named Fengyun 3D, replacing an aging satellite for the China Meteorological Administration. The Fengyun 3D satellite lifted off at 1835…
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Chinese weather satellite launched into polar orbit
A Long March 4C rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan space center Tuesday with the Fengyun 3D weather satellite. Credit: Xinhua A Chinese Long March 4C rocket launched Tuesday with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory named Fengyun 3D, replacing an aging satellite for the China Meteorological Administration. The Fengyun 3D satellite lifted off at 1835…