Students ask me this question a lot at local career days throughout the school year: “Miss... (pointing at the anemometer I have up on the screen), what does THAT thing do?” It typically leads to a ...

NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...

State-of-the-art weather instruments developed by University of New Hampshire researchers have been launched into outer space.The equipment was launched into space aboard a rocket carrying a NASA ...

On a clear day, the little-known UC Davis weather station is barely noticeable to passersby, but it has been recording weather since the 1800s. Students monitor winds, temperature and other weather ...

A permanent service change could impact hurricane forecasting. Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that many say has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes. The ...

THE first of these two books has for its aim the instruction of those who are interested in the weather, and wish to make forecasts on scientific lines, or to understand the principles which underlie ...

Brandywine Photonics' proposed MetNet constellation includes more than 200 small satellites to gather data simultaneously weather observations with nadir instruments pointing down (shown in teal) and ...

Today’s meteorologists have more tools available to them than they could ever use at once, so much so that forecasting the weather is both an art and a science. But before satellites and computers, ...

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