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Article: Satellite project aims to improve forecasting, climate models.
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- Science Letter
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- February 3, 2003
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2003 FEB 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Colorado State University researcher is leading a more than $100 million NASA-funded satellite project that will improve weather and climate prediction and develop critical new space technologies.
The CloudSat project, a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission, will launch into orbit the world's most advanced weather radar designed to measure properties of clouds that are essential for accurate understanding of Earth's weather and climate processes.
"CloudSat will provide the first global measurements of cloud thickness, height, water, and ice content and a wide range of precipitation data linked to cloud ...