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Tuesday, March 16, 2010


Hurricane predictions are going to improve this year due to, well, you can't really tell from this story, but somehow GPS is going to help somehow.
How much storm surge will a hurricane drive ashore? How much rain will a hurricane making landfall on the Gulf Coast bring to places as far inland as Kentucky or the Northeast? When does a monster hurricane suddenly dissipate?

The answer to many of these type of questions often is tied to knowing how much moisture swirls in the atmosphere around a hurricane.

This hurricane season, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say they will use Global Positioning System technology to measure the dynamics of moisture far offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. And they say that will help them track the fuel available to ramp up tropical systems moving through the Gulf.
GPS. Is there anything it can't do? If only this story explained anything.



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