Sentences with phrase «improving weather prediction»

It will also have human impacts, from improving weather prediction to helping assess the health of those living in the Arctic.

Improved weather prediction, therefore, will be vital to giving communities more time to prepare for dangerous storms, saving lives and minimizing damage to infrastructure.

Although understanding this oscillation is crucial for improving weather predictions, how the MJO is triggered remains poorly understood.

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Regardless of what climate models find, investigating these long - distance links in weather could also pay off by improving risk prediction and forecasts.

Small, low - cost satellites may vastly improve future predictions of weather and climate change

NASA is preparing to launch a duo of cloud - monitoring satellites that could help produce more accurate weather predictions and improve our understanding of how clouds affect climate.

Gabriel Vecchi, head of the climate variations and predictability group at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and another author on the paper, says decades of weather prediction data show that forecasts have improved — and will improve — as scientists learn more about hurricanes.

The paper (DOI 10.1038 / ngeo2957), published May 29 in Nature Geoscience, is the first to look at biosphere - atmosphere interactions using purely observational data and could greatly improve weather and climate predictions critical to crop management, food security, water supplies, droughts, and heat waves.

«Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent: Engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30 % of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions.»

In terms of weather prediction, that means, the «offspring» models improve in accuracy because they block more of the unhelpful attributes.

The research could also bring in more accurate weather predictions and improved warnings for sunbathers.

This understanding will help scientists improve global climate projections and predictions of extreme weather and climate change.

Because the monsoon drives weather patterns around the world and affects the stratosphere globally, this research will also improve our understanding of climate processes worldwide and will improve climate predictions where we live.»

The prediction of weather took a while for them to learn the difference between what they wanted the weather to be like compared to what the weather would probably be like in that season but did improve.

The purpose of NASA's Earth science program is to develop a scientific understanding of Earth's system and its response to natural or human - induced changes and to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards.

We strive to translate scientific discoveries into improved models for weather forecasting and climate prediction.

The potential benefits of this commonality are significant and include improved predictions on all time scales and stronger collaboration and shared knowledge, infrastructure, and technical capabilities among those in the weather and climate prediction communities...

The subseasonal to seasonal timescale provides a unique opportunity to capitalise on the expertise of the weather and climate research communities, and to bring them together to improve predictions on a timescale of particular relevance to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).

GFDL scientists strive to improve the understanding and prediction of weather and climate extremes.

By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

This capability would enable a model to continuously update and improve parameterization approaches on the fly, with the potential to improve climate predictions and short - term weather forecasts.

There are some source of predictability that are still not fully resolved (including those dealing with improving climate models, but also related to unexplored initial conditions or driving conditions), and a great benefit of these predictability studies is that they mimic the practice of weather prediction by confronting models with observations at the relevant time and spatial scales, leading to the necessary inspiration for this model improvement.

Traditionally numerical weather prediction has advanced progressively by improving single, «deterministic» forecasts with an increasing model accuracy and decreasing initial condition errors.

We believe that more accurate and reliable weather predictions will be of tremendous benefit to society, in everything from people being able to make better day - to - day plans to improved agricultural planning to being better able to predict and cope with extreme weather disasters.

Improved understanding of regional weather systems and better predictions have obvious benefits.

• Determine the role additional atmospheric profile observations may play in improving the quality of weather forecasts and ice predictions for the SIZ of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

The Polar Prediction Project (PPP) is a 10 - year (2013 — 2022) endeavour of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours toPrediction Project (PPP) is a 10 - year (2013 — 2022) endeavour of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours toprediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal.

She says improved summer weather predictions as well as satellite measurements of sea ice thickness and concentration could help forecasting.

The World Meteorological Organization on Monday said it had «kicked off» a two - year science blitz called the «Year of Polar Prediction,» which aims to deploy new instruments to help close research gaps and improve the accuracy of weather predictions.

Identify new sources of predictive skill and improve predictions of weather, water, and climate through observations, understanding, and modeling of physical processes and phenomena of the coupled Earth system.

Dr. John O. Roads, the director of the experimental climate prediction center at Scripps, said that new work is showing that there are plenty of other subtle influences on long - term weather that should eventually improve predictions, even in years without the strong influence from the Pacific.

APPLICATE brings together an international and multidisciplinary team of experts in weather and climate prediction in order to improve climate and weather forecasting capacity and to provide guidance on the design of the future observing system in the Arctic.

Long - range, seasonal to decadal forecasting: Several studies led by George Mason University, the University of Miami, and NCAR aim to improve prediction of weather patterns months to years in advance.

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate, weather and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space.