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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005	Ball Picks Satellite Receiver From EDO Under a $15.6 million contract, EDO will build the receiver for the Global Precipitation Measurement satellite system.
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Prachi Patel	Predicting the Future of Drought Prediction Better instruments and models could help scientists forecast droughts years in advance
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt	El Nino Drives Rainfall For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify the causes of year-to-year variability in global rainfall.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Roundabout Way of Profiling Earth's Atmosphere Here's how new methods of measuring temperature, pressure, and humidity using GPS signals should improve weather forecasting.
Science News August 4, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: Cloudy Crystal Balls Computer models may never be able to predict climate accurately.
National Defense May 2013 Valerie Insinna	Satellite Company Claims It Can Prevent Weather Data Gap Executives at PlanetIQ, a joint venture by several space companies, say they can solve the problem by launching a constellation of 12 low-earth orbit satellites that use a method called GPS radio occultation.
Popular Mechanics February 11, 2010 Anne Casselman	The High-Tech Weather Forecasting in the 2010 Winter Olympics Weather forecasting during the Olympics is always critical, but it will be even harder than usual this time around.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling	China's Massive Dam Alters Weather China's Three Gorges Dam is famed for its size -- and its reservoir may be large enough to change regional weather patterns.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Tekla S. Perry	Hurricane Watchers Hit Their Mark Hurricane Katrina, despite the tremendous problems with the evacuation of New Orleans, provided a vivid example of today's more skillful hurricane predicting.
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Solow & Kitces	Your Financial Future Foretold Financial planners insist that they cannot predict the future. But they do, all the time -- and typically, without realizing it.
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee	Rainfall Affected by Climate Change Global climate change will likely cause significant changes in the world's rainfall patterns, according to researchers working on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report summary.
National Defense August 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry May Have Answer to Weather Forecasting Blind Spot The United States faces a gap in future weather forecasts. From less accurate to untimely predictions, there could be dire consequences for the U.S. population and economy, warned a recent Government Accountability Office report.
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Jean Kumagai	Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed.
Popular Mechanics April 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	Weather Modders Aim to End Droughts With Efficiency by Sky Armed with new technology, cloud seeders fly to the rescue of water-starved regions of the country.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	NASA crunches weather data with VisiQuest Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are employing VisiQuest software from AccuSoft Corp. to analyze and visualize global precipitation data from 13 different satellites.
Geotimes December 2004 Naomi Lubick	Corroding Pipe Organs Extreme Storms as Climate Warms Hurricanes, typhoons and drought. Aspects of these extreme weather conditions may be related to global climate change, some scientists say.
National Defense May 2008 Grace V. Jean	Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble? We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the world's water possibly could be affected by the phenomenon of climate change.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 Nathan Slaughter	Forecasting Snowy Earnings The Sports Authority and Gander Mountain announce setbacks due to mild winter weather. Stocks react unfavorably.
Science News February 26, 2000	Troublesome Weather Trends Weekly weather patterns are surprising, but may be due to a bad use of statistics.
Geotimes May 2007 Jessica F. Larsen	A Comment on... Volcanoes in a Changing Global Climate It is highly speculative at present to predict how global climate change will transform the science of volcanology. Yet it is important that we begin to anticipate how the impacts of volcanoes will change, as population and precipitation patterns adjust to climate change during the 21st century.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Pakistan's Wetter Weather Linked to Global Warming New data from millennium-long tree-ring analyses are indicating that mountains in northern Pakistan have grown significantly wetter over the past century than they have been over the last millennium -- quite possibly due to human-induced global warming, the researchers say.
Fast Company September 2010 Stephanie Schomer	How Joe Russo Modernized Agricultural Water Management Joe Russo creates programs that help farmers better manage their water use.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Larry Armstrong	Baby, Is It Cold Outside? Many of us keep our radios set so we hear the weather report as soon as we wake up. But if you want to know the weather closer to home than the nearest airport, there are gadgets that tells you what's doing right outside your door.
Scientific American August 2006 Mark Alpert	Weather Gets Personal New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard.
Geotimes April 2005 Michael Glantz	What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished.
Home Toys April 2006 John Johnston	Home Weather Station - Toy or Necessity A home weather station measures the ambient weather that defines a homeowner's microclimate. With that information and a connection to the Internet, various home automation systems can control some home functions in a near immediate response to changes in the weather.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Google's Latest Partnership Is Out of This World Mapping the moon is just the start of the company's partnership with NASA. Investors, take note.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact.
Home Toys August 2003 Bob Hetherington	Touchscreen Wireless Weather Station from La Crosse Technology The system keeps track of indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, wind direction and velocity, solar intensity and rainfall. All of these variables are displayed on a very elegant touchscreen panel that can be wall mounted or set on a table.
Macworld July 2, 2005 Owen Linzmayer	3D Weather Globe & Atlas 1.1 If you're interested in weather or geography, you absolutely must own 3D Weather Globe & Atlas 1.1. Its real-time weather feed is unmatched in scope and reasonably priced. And it even comes with a screen saver module that shows an amazing satellite fly-over of the Earth's surface.
National Defense December 2005 Robert H. Williams	Would You Believe Space Weather Forecasts? The Air Force Weather Agency has perfected a space weather modeling capability that offers 72-hour forecasts from near earth to 40,000 miles out in space
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Vice Chief Tells Air Force Staff to `Fix the Weather' Although the Air Force has some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever made, it can't battle the weather. The idea is to get weather information instantly fed into command-and-control systems so planners can make decisions based on accurate up-to-dater data.
D-Lib December 2002	WW2010 - the Weather World 2010 Project With informative instruction, illustrative images, dynamic animations, movies, and interactive classroom activities, this project focuses on the construction of a multimedia environment for geoscience education.
PC Magazine January 31, 2007 Andre Bermudez	The Smart Umbrella The new Forecasting Umbrella will let you know at a glance whether you need it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John Keller	The ultimate in weather forecasting The secret to accurate and timely weather forecasting lies in getting the most sensors out in the field as possible.
Home Toys December 2003	Personal Weather Stations -- A Home Toy that "Works" Solar powered, wireless weather stations that "look good" and have a full range of Plug-and-Play OEM-approved and supported software drivers for most home automation control systems can be purchased for around $2,000.
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2011 Eli Goodman	Weather Forecast? Don't Know, Check Google While winter weather causes only moderate increases in audience visitation, it produces much more sizeable gains in engagement and search activity. Here's a look at how much more important search becomes during this time of the year.