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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...
The Defense Department will still maintain the satellite program will cease sharing the imagery with NOAA and NASA.
Meteorologists are losing a sophisticated tool that has proved invaluable when monitoring and forecasting hurricanes.
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
The decision to end the service was ultimately made by the US Department of Defense (DoD) and affects data collected by the ...
The Department of Defense announced that it will end the sharing of some satellite data that helps in hurricane forecast.
As peak hurricane season nears, the Pentagon is, not so quietly, preparing to pull the plug on a crucial stream of satellite data used by the country’s top weather forecasters, and no one seems to ...
Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The abrupt cutoff of satellite data crucial for hurricane forecasting is delayed by one month, until July 31, according to a message posted by the National ...