Under pressure: Stormy weather sensor for hurricane forecasting
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 09:20
in Earth & Climate
It's hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don't have a way to measure sea-level air pressure during hurricanes. NASA researchers, however, are working on a system that will improve forecasting of severe ocean weather by doing just that. The device measures sea-level air pressure, a critical component of hurricane formation -- and one that has been extremely difficult to capture.