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Weather Parade (II)

Weather wires are buzzing this morning with talk of Hurricane Earl, as they should be – this is a big system with a lot of energy.  But don’t lose sight of what is following behind Earl.  While Fiona looks to take a track farther to the east, the system in the central Atlantic has organized [...]

Weather Trends Indian Monsoon update – 22 July

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Here is the Weather Trends summary of the Indian Monsoon 2010 season to date.  A better start than last year, certainly, but as we have been stressing in numerous previous posts (see last week’s note as well as our note from early July), there will still be moisture [...]

Satellites for global food security

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Nice article here on using the NDVI to avert food crises (via SpaceMart).