Elkabetz: Radar monitoring over ocean would make hurricane forecasts significantly more reliable
Shimon Elkabetz · HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz · Nov 10, 2022 · at 17:40
Shimon Elkabetz, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow.io, discusses how space-based radar could improve hurricane tracking accuracy compared to existing meteorological observation networks.
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“I think it is pretty agreed upon the scientific community that if we had Good monitoring of hurricanes as they evolve all the way to hitting the mainland with radars, then the forecast accuracy, meaning the output of the models, would have been much more reliable. We would have known the track with more confidence.”
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