On television broadcasts and forecast maps, hurricanes appear as two-dimensional swirling vortices, belying their extremely complex three-dimensional structure. Being able to peer past the tops of ...

In 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms unleashed powerful winds that caused billions in damages across the Midwest United States. A technique developed by Penn State scientists that incorporates ...

The U.S. Department of Defense will now continue sharing key data collected by three weather satellites that help forecasters track hurricanes. Meteorologists and scientists had warned of risks to ...

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Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as originally planned The data come from sensors onboard Defense ...

Hurricane forecasters will soon lose access to government satellite data vital to tracking hurricanes overnight and preventing what meteorologists once called a “sunrise surprise,” when a storm ...

A plan that would have stopped the flow of essential forecast data from a trio of aging military satellites during the middle of hurricane season has been nixed after widespread pushback. Statements ...

China’s FengYun-3 (FY-3) satellite programme is an important part of the Earth observing system and provides observations for numerical weather prediction (NWP), reanalyses, and climate studies. The ...