Weather Break

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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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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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Forensic meteorology is a subdiscipline within the Atmospheric Sciences.  It’s the science of reconstructing weather conditions at a particular location at a particular time.  The work of forensic meteorologists is often needed to establish certain facts in court cases, for example.  The meteorologist can testify [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 749 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, we spoke with Mary Jean Johnston, the project administrator for the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, which is the home of the Meteorologist Hall of Fame.  It turns out that the Weather Center is a particularly nice educational center for people who are interested [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 725 of Weather Break.
So much of what makes weather and climate important has to do with the many ways that the atmosphere interacts with plant and animal life on the surface of the Earth.  In fact, there are actually two subdisciplines within the atmospheric sciences that are specifically devoted [...]

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