Weather Break

Click here to listen to episode 573 of Weather Break.
Every day on the show we say that the program is from the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences, but actually for the last few months the program has been coming to you from the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Cologne in [...]

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Meteorology is a highly “interdisciplinary” field, meaning that it builds on the skills in insights developed by specialists in lots of different subject areas. Meteorologists learn about physics and chemistry and math and computer science, for example. Our guest today on Weather Break is Dr. Suzanne [...]

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Dr. Suzanne van Cooten of the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma is the guest on Weather Break for the next three days. She’s a respected hydrometeorologist with strong interests in a variety of academic disciplines. Today on Weather Break, we start our conversation with [...]

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When Dr. Jon Schrage of the Creighton University Department of Atmospheric Sciences was a kid, his grade school would always have boxes of scratch paper that were donated by the local National Weather Service office. The front side of the papers were covered with strange codes [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 551 of Weather Break.
If you want to annoy a meteorologist, ask him or her a question about stars, nebulae, comets, galaxies, or some other astronomy topic. It’s very common for people to assume that meteorologists study things like this – especially since the word “meteor” is in “meteorology”. [...]

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