Inside Weather Science: How We Predict and Prevent Global Disasters | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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Meteorology has made enormous progress in recent decades, and to deliver the most accurate weather forecasts, scientists are continually sending up new satellites, developing ever-more sophisticated computerized models, taking more and more measurements. Today, 24-hour forecasts are 95% reliable and 3-day forecasts are 80% reliable. Weather reports are part of our daily lives, and even if the weather is one of the most popular and frequently watched television programs, the field is entirely unknown to the public.
How do scientists predict the weather and, each year, improve their predictions? How do they help us to avoid disasters?
From Japanese snowfall to the deserts of Namibia, from Central American hurricanes to Mediterranean storms, aboard the researcher’s boats or aircrafts, or inside the satellites launching stations this documentary provides a unique immersion into the biggest weather study missions currently in progress with additional cutting edge 3D modelling and graphic sequences.
Documentary: Weather: The Race to Forecast (2019)
Directed by: Stéphane Bégoin
Production: ZED
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How you create storm to cause devastation you mean!
I’m very curious, does USA share their knowledge about coming hurricanes etc to other nations?
(I sure hope they do, otherwise…😖😬) Ok this answered my question: yes. They’d better be.
This is stunnig and verry impressive & important work everyone involved.. Thank you kindly for sharing.. Greetings from Skandinavia 💞🇮🇸😏✌️💞
Extremely a great scientific documentary. Thanks for sharing
They say climate change has a consensus.. well if I was born before Newton the scientific consensus was that gravity doesn't exist
Alert,KURU is not in Guyana, but, it's in French Guiana 😊
I was still living on Antigua when Urma ran over Barbuda 😅! Beryl, she is too young to be mentioned in this program 😞.
I was always fascinated by the Physics of weather and climate, from convection (storm formation) to how marine and atmospheric currents form and flow.
The thermohaline circulation, aka the Great Conveyor is a fascinating feature of our planet, from salt extraction when sea ice forms that feeds the brine river (very cold and salty water) that runs on the bottom of the ocean to all the heat a branch of it, the Gulf Stream, that makes Europe's climate warmer.
"In the United Kingdom, winter temperatures are about 36°F (20°C) warmer than they would be without the Gulf Stream’s influence".
A note about the Arctic, it is on average warming 4 times faster than the global average with some areas warming 7 times faster. This is one of the causes of extreme weather events along with the rapid and intense warming of the ocean… Oceans are dark, they absorb more than 90 of the extra heat.