Sentences with phrase «improve space weather forecasting»

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Artist's rendering of NASA's ISS - RapidScat instrument (inset), which will launch to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction and help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring.

WEATHER forecasts in the southern hemisphere have improved by up to 10 per cent as a result of the detailed information about winds provided by the European Space Agency's ERS - 1 satellite.

This, in turn, will lead to better models of solar activity and improve the ability to forecast space weather.

The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.

These long - term observations of the sun are intended to improve the accuracy of space weather forecasts.

In a novel application of space - based atmospheric measurements, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), in collaboration with GeoOptics Inc., is investigating the use of radio occultation measurements to improve severe weather forecasting.