November 19, 2016 GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. EST today. The satellite will boost the nation’s weather observation network and NOAA’s prediction capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings. In about two weeks, once GOES-R is situated…
NOAA’s new satellite will finally pull weather forecasting technology out of the 1980s
Two Colorado companies are working together on the first major upgrade to the U.S. government’s weather observation instruments since the 1980s – and that means the forecast on your phone might get more accurate in the years ahead. “It’s pretty much been black and white images of clouds since the 1970s,” said Greg Mandt, National…
UAH teams for severe weather research
UAH, with its NASA and NOAA partners, is at “the epicenter” of research into techniques that will use data from a new generation of weather satellites to predict severe weather, with three new projects funded by NASA. All three extend or expand lines of ongoing NOAA research in the UAH’s Atmospheric Science Department and the…