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Discussions tagged with climate on WindowsForum.com cover a range of topics including weather metrics, seasonal phenomena, and environmental technology. One thread explores how to concisely summarize a city's climate using metrics like average low and high temperatures. Another shares a personal observation about an Indian Summer warm spell. On the technology side, posts highlight investments in agtech firms developing sensors and smart farm equipment to address weather challenges, as well as NASA missions studying Earth's climate, such as the Glory satellite and Mars suit tests in Antarctica. A thread also mentions a Skyrim mod called Climates of Tamriel, showing the tag's use in gaming contexts.
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Wave of New Tech Firms Targeting Farms as Weather Wars Mount
Investments in agriculture technology companies are growing, hitting $6.7 billion in the last five years, and the number of venture capital deals are increasing, according to Finistere Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm. Through October 2018, there were 28 deals globally for...- News
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Climate Metric
Imagine you have a big list of cities and wanted to concisely get an idea of what the weather is like over there. If conciseness and speed wasn't a problem, you could look at a graph like this (below) for each city, but that's not fast. So what metrics would you need to accurately capture the...- blksith0
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Indian Summer
I know it not going to last, probably more than just today, but with the temperature at 70+ degrees, it officially Indian Summer here. A nice break from the snow and cold of recent days.- seekermeister
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VIDEO Skyrim : Climates of Tamriel
Climates of Tamriel is currently available on the Steam Workshop! Looks interesting, to say the least.- Mike
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NASA tests Mars space suit in Argentine Antarctica
A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid...- cybercore
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NASA: Technical glitch crashes $424M Glory mission
A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean. Now NASA, which attempted to launch the rocket early Friday morning, has convened an investigative committee to figure out...- cybercore
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Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses?
Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses? For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity's closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses? This isn't just a question of beauty. Scientists posited that the big snouts could...- cybercore
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