Nasa meteorologists trialling model to produce ultra local, short-term forecasts

Improved short-term forecasts could be a lifesaver for Nasa and important for organisers of events such as Wimbledon Meteorologists are working on ever longer-range predictions, but they have not neglected ultra local, ultra short-term forecasts for specific purposes. This month, meteorologists at Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia announced trials with a high-resolution weather model called US1k developed by Meteomatics. The developers claim that this model has a resolution nine tim...

By David Hambling