New Spacecraft Should Improve Storm Forecasting

Credit: nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
A new climate-study spacecraft just entering environmental test here is expected to sharpen weather-forecasting models in ways that would have given forecasters a better handle on the back-to-back storms that slammed the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast this fall. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)...

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