Weather Break

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Observations of the current weather are key to making good weather forecasts, but few features of the atmosphere are as hard to reliably observe as clouds. NASA’s CloudSat mission fills important gaps in our understanding of the distribution of clouds with its downward-pointer radar. From orbit, [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 514 of Weather Break.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVS, have been proven to be a remarkable tool for the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. From a safe location hundreds or even thousands of miles away, a pilot remotely controls the UAV to gather intelligence on the enemy or [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 512 of Weather Break.
Yesterday on Weather Break, Creighton student Anna Weber talked about how lightning happens and how various ground-based lightning detection networks operate, providing both forecasters and the public with important information about lightning during severe weather. But scientists are also interested in more global information about [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 490 of Weather Break.
As severe weather season approaches, it’s likely that more and more people in Nebraska and South Dakota will be paying closer attention to the weather segments on their local news broadcasts. TV meteorologists pretty much always show satellite pictures when they give their weather discussions [...]

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Click here to listen to episode 346 of Weather Break
Over the years here on Weather Break, we’ve talked a lot about satellite meteorology and the use of weather satellites to monitor the weather and climate of the world.  Many of these weather satellites are in what are called “polar” orbits.  NASA has [...]

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