In addition, the Lockheed P-3's were perfectly suitable for gathering data on tropical cyclones, allowing improved forecasting of these monstrous storms.
"We expect data gathered by Calipso to help improve forecasts of weather and climate," he said.
Results improve forecasts of species and ecosystems responses to future climate change.
One U.S. project — a collaboration between NOAA, NASA, Scripps, and other agencies to improve forecasts of atmospheric rivers — is underway in California.
The California Public Utilities Commission issued a $1.5 million grant to improve forecasts of San Diego's ever-changing coastal fog, and the California Energy Commission gave $1 million to help Professor Coimbra develop an accurate model of the thick, ground-clinging fog of the Central Valley.
Stanford Health Policy's newest faculty member, Joshua Salomon, believes that one urgent need in global health research is to improve forecasts of the patterns and trends that are the major causes of death and disease.
Characteristics of past population dynamics are imprinted in genes, yet these molecular 'log books' are just beginning to be used to improve forecasts of biotic responses to climate change.
The atmospheric and oceanic sciences programme works on temporal-spatial changes of atmosphere and ocean, unearthing the mechanisms underpinning these changes, and understanding the interactions between hydrosphere, atmosphere and other Earth systems, so as to improve forecasts of weather, climate, ocean and environmental dynamics.
NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth's weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecasts of extreme "space weather" that can disrupt global positioning satellites (GPS) and radio communications.
