Numerical Weather Prediction

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Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations

Introduction In an era where satellite observations of Earth are commonplace, it’s easy to forget that only a few decades ago, the amount of information available about the state of Earth’s environment was limited; observations were infrequent and data were sparsely located. As far back as the late 1950s, there were primitive numerical weather prediction (NWP) models that could produce…