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Weather forecasting relies heavily on modeled data that accounts for the physics, dynamics and thermodynamics of the atmosphere. This modeling serves as the key to weather prediction, but without ...

Using the power of Japan's K computer, scientists have shown that incorporating satellite data at frequent intervals -- 10 minutes in the case of this study -- into weather prediction models can ...