Sentences with phrase «measure storm conditions»

He designed and built innovative probes that he placed on the ground just before tornados barreled through — often at grave personal peril — to measure storm conditions.

Not exact matches

«As Mother Nature once again tests our great state, we have taken proactive measures in anticipation of the storm's heavy, wet snow that could impact power lines and cause dangerous travel conditions,» Cuomo said.

The UAH team estimated lightning nitric oxide (NO) emissions based on NLDN observations, measured the resulting ozone created by the lightning downwind of the storms, where clear conditions allowed Lidar to function and quantified the ozone enhancements due to lightning.

To calculate the number of tropical storms likely to develop under different conditions, climatologists use a measure known as Gray's yearly genesis parameter (YGP).

Unfortunately, that measure does not accurately take into account how the ocean subsurface conditions help fuel such storms.