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Hurricane Sandy

UN-SPIDER Updates December 2012

Issue Date: 
Tue, 08/01/2013

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Weather forecasts can save thousands of lives

Tropical Cyclone Funso

In a recent article in Nature, Peter J.

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33.749
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-84.388
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Hurricane Sandy: Polar-orbiting satellites were key in pinpointing landfall

According to a new study by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the NOAA forecasts of Hurricane Sandy’s track could have been hundreds of miles off without informa

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How Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellites tracked Sandy

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission showed its versatility by capturing unique measurements of Hurricane Sandy, that hit the Caribbean and northeastern US in late October 20

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