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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Ben Ames	Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Robert Gall & David Parsons	It's Hurricane Season: Do You Know Where Your Storm is? Souped-up satellites, supercomputers, and superior science might soon mean you really can trust the weather report.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Tekla S. Perry	Hurricane Watchers Hit Their Mark Hurricane Katrina, despite the tremendous problems with the evacuation of New Orleans, provided a vivid example of today's more skillful hurricane predicting.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 John Brandon	Q&A: Ken Graham, National Weather Service The director of the National Weather Service's (NWS) integrated services talks about tech advances in forecasting.
National Defense August 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry May Have Answer to Weather Forecasting Blind Spot The United States faces a gap in future weather forecasts. From less accurate to untimely predictions, there could be dire consequences for the U.S. population and economy, warned a recent Government Accountability Office report.
Food Processing July 2008	Rollout: Best New Products of July 2008 It's hot outside, but these cool new products don't know the difference.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames	Three teams compete to build NOAA climate satellite The next-generation GOES-R satellites will collect 100 times more data and scan the Earth three- to-five times faster than previous systems.
Popular Mechanics June 16, 2008 Erin Scottberg	High-Speed Storm Radars to Track Tornadoes, Fend Off Tragedy America's current system for detecting tornadoes, devices tracking a storm's direction and velocity -- has been the backbone of weather prediction since the early 1990s, but experts say it is deeply flawed.
Popular Mechanics February 11, 2010 Anne Casselman	The High-Tech Weather Forecasting in the 2010 Winter Olympics Weather forecasting during the Olympics is always critical, but it will be even harder than usual this time around.
Inc. January 2005 Patrick J. Sauer	Entrepreneur of the Year: Bob Baron His storm-tracking technology helped us cope with a hyperactive hurricane season.
National Defense October 2005 Robert H. Williams	Sensor Measures Multiple Cloud Layers An improved laser ceilometer -- which can measure up to four layers of cloud cover from zero to 30,000 feet -- has been unveiled by All Weather Inc. The airport weather sensor relies on advanced signal processing algorithms and eye-safe light detection and ranging optical radar.
Home Toys April 2006 John Johnston	Home Weather Station - Toy or Necessity A home weather station measures the ambient weather that defines a homeowner's microclimate. With that information and a connection to the Internet, various home automation systems can control some home functions in a near immediate response to changes in the weather.
Home Toys December 2003	Personal Weather Stations -- A Home Toy that "Works" Solar powered, wireless weather stations that "look good" and have a full range of Plug-and-Play OEM-approved and supported software drivers for most home automation control systems can be purchased for around $2,000.
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel	Satellite System Rides the Solar Wind A new system for observing space weather is bringing scientists closer to making accurate forecasts for conditions beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Fast Company December 2000 Chuck Salter	Weathering the Storm Weather.com is one of the Web's most unlikely success stories. It has parlayed its loyal following and its philosophical take on the weather into a site that is on course to attract 3 billion page views this year...
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John Keller	Multi-Sensor Fusion Hits the Mainstream Once considered as futuristic, difficult, and elusive, multi-sensor fusion is coming into its own as a standard approach of processing signals from a wide variety of sensors, and making sense of incomplete and sketchy sensor data.
Fast Company February 2014 J.J. McCorvey	The Future of Forecasting WeatherSignal is an app that hacks the growing number of sensors that exist in Android phones to crowdsource information. This could point to a new form of weather-data collection.
CIO April 26, 2012 Agam Shah	Intel Researchers Plot a Smarter, Personalized Cloud Intel researchers hope to combine sensors and cloud to deliver more accurate weather, air quality information
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Otis Port	Herding Hurricanes It can't be done yet, but one scientist's computer simulations point the way to tempering fierce weather in the future.
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
Science News February 28, 2009	Science Past For February 28, 1959 The United States has launched into orbit the first baby weather station in space. It was hurled into its earth-circling path at 10:55 a.m., Feb. 17, and its predicted lifetime is several decades.
CRM January 2016 Leonard Klie	IBM Merges Weather and Business Forecasts Big Blue's purchase of The Weather Company enhances its ability to provide business insights
InternetNews January 11, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Weather Channel Adds Forecasts To Google Map New feature ties together leading online weather information from the Weather Channel, and mapping services from Google Maps.
National Defense August 2008 Sara Peck	Civilian Drones Have Yet to Pass Weather Test Researchers at the Army's White Sands Missile Range in Arizona are developing weather forecasting software to help unmanned aerial vehicles fly in a variety of climates.
InternetNews August 16, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IBM Supercomputer The Latest Olympic Entry A high-performance system will be used to predict the weather around Beijing and how bad the pollution is at any given hour.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009	Naval Oceanographic and Military Weather Signal Processing Job Goes to General Dynamics General Dynamics won a $22.2 million contract to deliver the company's NITES-Next ocean and weather intelligence processing software.
Scientific American August 2006 Mark Alpert	Weather Gets Personal New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard.
Fast Company February 2014 J.J. McCorvey	A Storm Brews over Weather Nowcasting apps such as Dark Sky are threatening the Weather Channel's dominance. Can forecasting's biggest brand keep up?
The Motley Fool April 8, 2005 Rich Smith	BJ's: Wholesaler or Weatherman? The company combined its monthly sales update with an earnings warning on Thursday. The reason for the decreased first-quarter expectations is also the reason for this column: the weather.
Home Toys August 2003 Bob Hetherington	Touchscreen Wireless Weather Station from La Crosse Technology The system keeps track of indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, wind direction and velocity, solar intensity and rainfall. All of these variables are displayed on a very elegant touchscreen panel that can be wall mounted or set on a table.
Science News June 2, 2007	Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009	In Briefs FAA gives green light to NextGen satellite system... Northrop Grumman reveals first Navy unmanned combat aircraft... Lockheed Martin selected for next-generation GOES-R weather satellites... etc.
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson	Earth Needs More Robust Early Warning Space Weather Systems The challenge for the space community is making lawmakers who hold the purse strings understand the importance of space weather forecast, and the impact that events can have on modern technology.
The Motley Fool October 24, 2011 John Grgurich	1 Stock Flying Under Everyone's Radar A solid dividend stock buys itself some growth potential. Now, United Technologies, with the deal its subsidiary Pratt & Whitney just inked with Rolls-Royce, the way is paved for share price appreciation, as well.
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Michael Dumiak	Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to improve airport safety.
National Defense December 2005 Robert H. Williams	Would You Believe Space Weather Forecasts? The Air Force Weather Agency has perfected a space weather modeling capability that offers 72-hour forecasts from near earth to 40,000 miles out in space
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
Geotimes March 2006 Megan Sever	Students Sink Into the Edmund Fitzgerald The Edmund Fitzgerald famously sank in bad weather on Nov. 10, 1975. No one knows exactly what sank her, but new model simulations -- being used in a weather and climate class to draw students' interest -- are showing more precisely what conditions the ship may have encountered.
CFO April 1, 2005 John Goff	Who'll Stop the Rain? The forces of nature remain the biggest threat to the daily operations of most companies. Here are some examples of how companies are preparing for such emergencies.
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2011 Eli Goodman	Weather Forecast? Don't Know, Check Google While winter weather causes only moderate increases in audience visitation, it produces much more sizeable gains in engagement and search activity. Here's a look at how much more important search becomes during this time of the year.
Information Today August 11, 2011	Social Media Features Included in New AccuWeather for Android App AccuWeather has introduced an AccuWeather for Android application for Android phones.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2012 Travis Hoium	Wild Weather a Downer for Stocks Hurricanes, flooding, and even a pleasantly warm winter are having an impact on companies.
Geotimes November 2004 Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.	Geologic Mapping for the Future Current efforts to develop an integrated Global Earth Observation System of Systems are helping to launch a new voyage of scientific discovery.
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bruce W. Fraser	When Mother Nature Strikes Weather risk management is growing in importance.
T.H.E. Journal August 1999 Stephen M. Portz - Space Coast Middle School	Satellite Technologies in the Classroom ...Though the data is often not in real time, the ease of accessibility, the range and quantity of images, and the archival capabilities of the Internet make the use of satellite imagery a great educational activity...
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Larry Armstrong	Baby, Is It Cold Outside? Many of us keep our radios set so we hear the weather report as soon as we wake up. But if you want to know the weather closer to home than the nearest airport, there are gadgets that tells you what's doing right outside your door.
Wired October 2005 Charles Graeber	The Tornado Rider Thrill-seeker Steve Green wants to drive into the eye of a twister. So he crashed the storm-chasing party with the ultimate tornado-proof car. If the cyclones don't kill him, the other drivers will.
Popular Mechanics December 20, 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Satellite to Measure Rain From Space, Outsmart Your Weatherman Rain precipitation is difficult to predict, so scientists are using satellites to improve predictions.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor The PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor allows students to gain new insight into the science of weather.