Exploring Cloud Secrets
New York Times
Posted online: Sunday, April 23, 2006
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/2984.html
This article explains the new satallite techniques that are now being put in to practice to monitor cloud movement and other climate condiutions. NASA sent up 2 atellites designed for this science are being launched friday.
One of the new technolgies used is called CloudSat. It is a radar 1000 times more sensitive than the radars used to profile clouds now. the satellites are predicted to orbit for 22 months and give scientists two seasons of data to work with. Having this data will help meteorologists track weather patterns and predict global climate movements.
I think this new technology is pretty cool. i think its cool that they can gain so much information from clouds and just a series of pictures of clouds at that. I can see sometime in the near future where google will get a hold of these satellite photographs and make a google-climate, where you can navagate around the world looking at photographs of earth clouds. It is also cool to think that by having these photographs, meteorologists can relay information to america. this will make the weather reports much more accurate and many people will be happy.
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