CSUN WILL HELP JPL MONITOR SUN, WIND.Byline: Eric Wahlgren Daily News Staff Writer Space may be the final frontier, but scientists concede they still have a lot of ground to cover when it comes to understanding wind and sunlight here on Earth. That's why the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. is teaming up with Cal State Northridge. Under an agreement signed Wednesday between the school and the Pasadena-based JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. , as many as 20 students will help develop unique computer programs that could help boost crop harvests and improve weather forecasting weather forecasting Prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics and meteorology. Weather forecasting predicts atmospheric phenomena and changes on the Earth's surface caused by atmospheric conditions (snow and ice cover, storm tides, floods, . ``Together, we will be able to bring the wonder of science and technology to the classroom,'' Cal State Northridge President Blenda Wilson said about the Students Understanding Nature or SUN project. Schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school in the United States and other countries will collect raw data and sending it to Cal State Northridge and the JPL for analysis. Cal State Northridge, with about $20,000 in initial grants from the laboratory, and the JPL will begin doubling the size of the worldwide network of detectors used to monitor the sunlight hitting the Earth's surface. The sunlight-measuring program will help students and JPL scientists understand how the sun's rays affect things such as crop yield and the development of skin cancer. Both undergraduate and graduate students will work with JPL scientists to develop computer software for analyzing information on ultraviolet and visible rays pelting the planet. ``We are a research institution, and science can be labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars ,'' said Gilbert Yanow, head of educational outreach for JPL. ``We don't have a lot of labor.'' So far about 20 schools around the globe have monitors, including Granada Hills High in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Indonesia, Korea and Australia are among participating nations. Another program, to be developed by JPL and Cal State Northridge, will allow schoolchildren around the world to ``adopt'' their own patches of ocean and keep track of the weather conditions there, said Adrian Herzog, who heads the university's physics and astronomy departments. Cal State Northridge students will help design computer programs to interpret data beamed down from a NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. satellite instrument that measures the speed and direction of ocean winds. ``There has never been a really good way to measure wind speeds on the ocean,'' Herzog said. Herzog said better information on the speed and direction of ocean winds will let meteorologists Atmospheric scientists
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