The Department of Homeland Security's science and technology directorate has unveiled a technology designed to forecast flooding, storm surges and wave interactions.
Read More »Trump Signs Bill to Authorize NOAA Purchase of Commercial Satellite Weather Data
President Donald Trump last week signed a bill authorizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to acquire weather data from commercial satellite systems, Space News reported Friday. Jeff Foust writes the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 allows NOAA to spend up to $6 million a year to conduct a pilot procurement program …
Read More »NASA Enlists Students to Develop Glider for Weather Research, Forecasting
NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California has enlisted the help of students to develop a subscale glider to aid weather research, prediction and airborne science programs at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Weather Hazard Alert and Awareness Technology Radiation Radiosonde glider is based on the …
Read More »Commerce Dept: NOAA Renames Weather Satellite GOES-16 After Entry Into Geostationary Orbit
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially named its first geostationary weather satellite GOES-16 nearly 10 days after it launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket on Nov. 19. Lockheed Martin-built GOES-16, previously known as GOES-R, has started to move into its geostationary checkout orbit after the satellite …
Read More »NOAA Issues Funds for Weather, Water Hazard Forecasting Tech Transfer; John Cortinas Comments
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has invested $6 million in a technology transfer initiative to obtain scientific and technological systems from government and academia. NOAA said Monday it will apply the new systems across the National Weather Service in an effort to aid in weather and water hazards forecasting functions. …
Read More »NOAA Expands Weather Research Program with Rockwell Collins; David Poltorak Comments
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Rockwell Collins have moved to help the aviation industry gain accurate forecast by expanding a weather research program. The aircraft observation research will cover the upper Midwest, Alaska and Pacific Ocean areas in order to provide weather data to NOAA’s National Weather Service, …
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