The COWVR instrument (center, wrapped in gold foil) in JPL's Environmental Test Laboratory during vibration testing. (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/) The International ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Meteorologists use many different instruments to observe and forecast the weather. Some sit at the surface… others remain far above the ground, all are important in knowing and ...

Students ask me this question a lot at local career days throughout the school year: “Miss... (pointing at the anemometer I have up on the screen), what does THAT thing do?” It typically leads to a ...

Launched Tuesday to the space station, the COWVR and TEMPEST two instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather forecasting. The Compact Ocean Wind Vector ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A weather vane is an instrument used to show the direction the wind is blowing from. It is one of the simplest weather instruments created and it has been used since ancient times. The ...

This map, made using COWVR’s new observations, shows Earth’s microwave emissions at a frequency that provides information on the strength of winds at the ocean surface, the amount of water in clouds, ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to launch the Space Weather Follow On satellite to Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1 in 2025 on the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.

Weather instruments around New England recorded two shockwaves from the enormous blast created by the volcanic eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the South Pacific Ocean.The underwater blast ...

The data logger is the central component of the weather station. It collects information from each of the instruments and translates it into a useful form. It then sends the data to our campus weather ...