It was March 2017, and a winter storm named Stella promised to deliver up to a foot and a half of snow to New York City and parts of New Jersey. Officials pushed out blizzard warnings, suggesting the city was under imminent ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 6, 2018
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Research by Pieter Smets of TU Delft and the KNMI shows that infrasound can be used for weather and climate forecasts. These inaudible low sound waves can be used to gain a better picture of the stratosphere, which can barely ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2018
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Now in its new GOES-East position, the advanced GOES-16 satellite has officially joined NOAA's operational observation network, providing forecasters with sharper, more defined images of severe storms, hurricanes, wildfires ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2017
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The advent of mobile communications devices and in particular the internet-connected smart phone and tablet means that users can have access to almost any information they desire with the tap or swipe of a screen. That evergreen ...
Software
Jul 31, 2017
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Weather forecasting is one of the most computationally challenging problems in science. Forecasts are produced by simulating a numerical model of the Earth's weather patterns and then predicting its future behaviours. For ...
Mathematics
Jul 26, 2017
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Mariners need better tropical weather forecasts, according to federal safety investigators examining the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro.
Environment
Jun 30, 2017
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Make fun of the weatherman if you want but modern forecasts have quietly, by degrees, become much better.
Environment
Jun 1, 2017
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SpaceX is poised to blast off its next delivery of food, supplies and science experiments to the astronauts living at the International Space Station on Thursday.
Space Exploration
May 31, 2017
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Accurate weather forecasts save lives. NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, launched on this date 15 years ago on NASA's Aqua satellite, significantly increased weather forecasting accuracy within a couple ...
Earth Sciences
May 5, 2017
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Paul Roebber sat on the New Jersey beach, looked out at the ocean and let his mind wander. "I started thinking about sharks hunting for prey," the meteorologist says, "and about predicting dynamic systems in nature."
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2017
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