The COWVR instrument (center, wrapped in gold foil) in JPL's Environmental Test Laboratory during vibration testing. (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/) The International ...

Provides 3X spectral coverage; 4X resolution; 5X faster than previous generation of satellites Strengthens NOAA’s environmental and weather monitoring Heralds next generation of weather satellite ...

Launched Tuesday to the space station, the COWVR and TEMPEST two instruments could lead the way to big improvements in gathering key information for weather forecasting. The Compact Ocean Wind Vector ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Meteorologists use many different instruments to observe and forecast the weather. Some sit at the surface… others remain far above the ground, all are important in knowing and ...

In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary ...

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver unprecedented information to help scientists investigate how both ...

This map, made using COWVR’s new observations, shows Earth’s microwave emissions at a frequency that provides information on the strength of winds at the ocean surface, the amount of water in clouds, ...

Students ask me this question a lot at local career days throughout the school year: “Miss... (pointing at the anemometer I have up on the screen), what does THAT thing do?” It typically leads to a ...