News tagged with forecast
Space technology optimises windmill efficiency
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...
Gartner forecasts 2.8 percent growth in PC sales in 2009
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Worldwide sales of personal computers, which had been forecast to decline this year, will instead post modest gains, Gartner research group said Monday.
Microsoft Hopes To Win Back Browser Market Share With Internet Explorer 8
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has a lot at stake with the success of Internet Explore 8 since they lost 7 percent of their browser market to Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers. IE8 has been in release candidate ...
New water management tool may help ease effects of drought
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Continued improvement of climate forecasts is resulting in better information about what rainfall and streamflow may look like months in advance. A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed an innovative ...
People's misperceptions cloud their understanding of rainy weather forecasts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, "Everyone reads or watches ...
300 billion weather forecasts used by Americans annually, survey finds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Close to 9 out of 10 adult Americans obtain weather forecasts regularly, and they do so more than three times each day on average, a new nationwide survey by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric ...
CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...
Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma mean double trouble in the western Pacific
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 07, 2009 |
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There's double-trouble in the Western Pacific with one typhoon and one tropical storm bringing soaking rains, dangerous surf and gusty winds to two different locations. Typhoon Melor is affecting the east ...
Implications of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.
Election forecast predicts democrats will gain 3 seats in Senate, 11 in House
Oct 21, 2008 |
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An election forecast model developed by a political scientist 99 days before the 2008 elections and before the recent Wall Street crisis predicts significant Democratic gains in the 2008 congressional elections—including ...
Scientists unveil new seasonal hurricane forecasting model
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Scientists at The Florida State University's Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) have developed a new computer model that they hope will predict with unprecedented accuracy how many hurricanes will occur ...
Forecasters predict 6 Atlantic hurricanes for 2009
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Six hurricanes are expected to churn through the Atlantic this year, a Colorado State University forecast team said Tuesday as it lowered its estimates for the upcoming storm season.
Hurricane Katrina: Phone home
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation.
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
NOAA announces an experimental harmful algal bloom forecast bulletin for Lake Erie
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Predicting harmful algal blooms, or HABs, in the Great Lakes is now a reality as NOAA announces an experimental HAB forecast system in Lake Erie. HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health ...
