NCAR has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first ...
Mr. Cressman, a pioneer in the use of computers to predict the weather, was a former director of the National Weather Service.
... radio waves travel for long distances over the sea their strength can be affected by the weather. The constantly changing weather conditions over the sea mean that marine and coastal environments, in ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China launched a second weather satellite on Tuesday to help improve forecasts for this August's Beijing Olympics, state media reported.
The first weather reports are in from Canada's $37-million weather station on Mars, showing temperatures hitting a high of -30 Celsius, and a low of -80.
The U.S. National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center forecasts six to nine hurricanes--including as many as five major hurricanes with wind speeds above 111 miles (179 kilometers) per hour-- ...
... accurate estimate of cases of cryptosporidiosis that can be attributed to both lag time and the weather," says Naumova.
"We hope that this model can be expanded upon by public health researchers to ...
The weather looked favorable for space shuttle Discovery to return to Earth Saturday after a two-week mission in which it delivered a new Japanese lab to the international space station.
... , including meteorological, navigation and remote sensing systems. There are high costs and high risks associated with the consequences of space weather events, as insurance companies recognise...
... -circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change. The mission will return a vast amount of new data that will improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts.
The World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday that 2008 was proving a year of respite from natural climatic phenomena identified by scientists as causing havoc with weather patterns.
(AP) -- NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process that had attracted interest from ...
... ) light. To ensure that this solar stake-out yields data useful for understanding the weather in space and its earthly consequences, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( ...
NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting.
Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the ...
