Satellites Above2 lesson(s)
Weather & Climate · Advanced
Weather Satellites
By admin · An advanced course on the eyes that see the whole storm: how weather satellites began, how they orbit and see, the instruments inside them, and how their data has transformed forecasting, hurricane tracking and climate monitoring.
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About this course
Before satellites, forecasters were blind to the two-thirds of the planet covered by ocean, and hurricanes were discovered only when they appeared on shore. Since the first weather satellite, TIROS, in 1960, the view from space has rebuilt meteorology: geostationary satellites now watch half the planet continuously, scanning every storm every minute, while polar orbiters map the whole globe twice a day. This classroom explains the orbits and instruments of weather satellites, how they see in visible, infrared and water vapor light, how data from space fuels the forecasts and hurricane warnings that save lives, and how the same satellites build the long climate records that reveal a warming planet.
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Satellites and the Forecast2 lesson(s)