Sofar Ocean Intelligence, Tomorrow.io, Black Swift Technologies and Saildrone are among other startups with innovative technologies and AI forecasting models that are increasingly supplying NOAA with critical atmospheric and oceanic data through its Mesonet Program.

“The mandate of the government is not ours,” said Tim Janssen, a co-founder of Sofar, which has created a network of buoys that deploy from vessels and aircraft with sensors to monitor ocean conditions. “It would be impossible for us to spend millions of dollars to do something just for societal benefit, [when] there isn’t a direct business case.”

NOAA cannot just rely on outside providers for weather data.

The costs of deploying and operating upper air, radar, weather station, and buoy networks, and other sensing platforms like satellites are far higher than the $27 - 30M Congress wants to give NMP.

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Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague: The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"

Awful. More horrible science news

"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

DOI hasn’t registered yet so here is the AGU link:

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I'm very proud of Leia's growth as a scientist over the course of this study and it has been a joy to work together over the years. I'm looking forward to seeing where this research leads within the community!

This work began as an undergraduate research project of Leia's many years ago as a follow-up to some of my PhD dissertation work in the stable boundary layer, and it is extremely satisfying to see this come to a culmination in a peer-reviewed article.

We found that uncertainties in wind speed, wind direction, and potential temperature can be significant over typical averaging periods (a few seconds in rotary-wing UAS vertical profiles). Increasing sampling time by flying more slowly or with successive profiles are ways to mitigate these errors.

Much work has been done in the #UAS community to minimize errors due to sensor integration and calibration techniques, but this study digs a bit further to understand how errors arise due to not collecting enough measurements to capture the underlying variability of the atmosphere.

Happy to share that my work in collaboration with Leia Otterstatter and Prof. Scott Salesky was just published in Geophysical Research Letters! In this article we used a suite of LES to study the representativeness of measurements by Uncrewed Aircraft Systems in the CBL.

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Deleted Elon musk tweet from February 2023 that reads “go eagles”

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

Hey just for what it’s worth, do you know where every single one of NWS’s daily radiosondes come from?

Germany and Finland.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

Excited to see the culmination of several years of hard work by an exceptional young scientist. Congrats Robby on this publication!