In Great Britain, where coverage is substantial and weather prediction service efficient, accuracy of 90% is claimed for daily forecast; long-range forecasting, which claims marginal accuracy of about 55% is based entirely on statistics for previous years; value and use of weather satellites, in particular ESSA and Nimbus satellites, which supply 50 ground-stations throughout world with pictures; project and purpose of Applications Technology Satellites, experiments planned, launch vehicles under consideration, and advanced instrumentation.
Keeping track of weather
Spaceflight
Spaceflight ; 9 , n 8
1967
6 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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