Germantown-based Earth Networks finds correlation between lightning, storm path

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: August 25, 2011
Tags: earth networks, east coast, germantown, hurricane, irene, lightning, storm, storm path

Earth Networks Inc. of Germantown, the owner and operator of WeatherBug, the country’s largest weather network, said it is actively tracking the path of Hurricane Irene as it approaches the East Coast by providing an early look into Irene’s total lightning activity. This is the first time, the company said, that there is an established [...]

Earth Networks partnering with European climate research institutes

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: August 16, 2011
Tags: atmospheric greenhouse gas, climate scientists, consortium, earth networks, european, germantown, greenhouse gas, ICOS, national climate research, scripps institution of oceanography

Earth Networks Inc. of Germantown, which owns and operates the country’s largest weather network, said it is partnering with ICOS, a European consortium of national climate research institutes from 17 countries. Earth Networks will work closely with ICOS’ extensive network of climate scientists to increase the size of Europe’s greenhouse gas monitoring network, and collaborate [...]

Germantown-based Earth Networks, NIST team on greenhouse gases

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 1, 2011
Tags: earth networks, germantown, greenhouse gases, maryland, national institute of standards and technology, NIST, weatherbug

GERMANTOWN — WeatherBug operator Earth Networks says it will work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop a prototype of its proposed greenhouse gas monitoring network. The Germantown-based company announced Wednesday that NIST will help build and analyze data from the prototype network. The location of the first prototype network will be [...]

WeatherBug operator to measure greenhouse gases

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 12, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, california, earth networks, Earth Networks Center for Climate Research, Environment, germantown, global warming, greenhouse gas, maryland, weatherbug

GERMANTOWN — WeatherBug operator Earth Networks says it is teaming with California’s Scripps Institution on a greenhouse gas monitoring network. Germantown-based Earth Networks, known for its weather observation network and web applications, says it hopes the greenhouse network will improve understanding of the atmospheric gases blamed for global warming. The company says only a few [...]