Open AccessDo All These Weather Satellites Really Improve Forecasts?
Author(s) -
Eric Betz
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo028103
Subject(s) - meteorology , environmental science , climatology , weather satellite , computer science , remote sensing , satellite , geography , geology , engineering , aerospace engineering
A team of researchers put an array of space- and ground-based weather instruments to the test and found that the common weather balloon is irreplaceable for forecasting rainfall.