Time-lapse animations that once took days to create are now easy to build with publicly available satellite images and free online tools.
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Don’t believe the skeptics or the conspiracy theorists: Weather forecasters can’t slant hurricane warnings to make political points.
A couple thousand satellites are orbiting Earth right now. Under the right conditions, your naked eye can spot these human-made objects in the night sky.
Australia is playing a major role in developing legal guidelines that would govern how any war in space is played out. The authors of MILAMOS hope the manual is never actually required.
Our fascination with space shows no signs of slowing down, 60 years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.
President Trump’s 2018 budget request cuts funding for NASA Earth observation research and cancels four missions. Weather forecasters, businesses, scientists and the armed forces rely on this data.
Satellite rainfall data can be used to predict harsh climate events – and to identify food-insecure populations before disaster strikes.
Moaning about weather forecasts is almost an Australian national pastime. But weather predictions have improved a lot, and with a new satellite and supercomputer, they are about to get even more reliable.
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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BOM, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Assistant Director, Observing Strategy and Operations, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Atmospheric Modelling Team Leader, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Researcher, Rainfall Monitoring, Applied Statistics, Famine Early Warning, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Teaching Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
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PhD candidate, law and military uses of outer space, University of Adelaide
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate Professor of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
