Do early warning systems work?
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Nations turn their attention to installing tsunami early warning systems, but do they really work?
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Watching for changes in the inner eyewall of a hurricane may help forecasters overcome one of their most perplexing challenges: predicting sudden strengthening or weakening. The ability to predict what path a hurricane will follow has improved dramatically in recent years, but anticipating sudden changes in intensity has remained a problem.
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These devices will need some help springing forward with daylight-saving time, which comes three weeks early this year.
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The emerging science of infrasound may help track -- or even predict -- earthquakes and other disasters. By John Geirland from Wired magazine.
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Early results and projections better than opinion polls in recent days have suggested
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An early warning system would have made all the difference. Instead of being swept to their deaths by the Dec. 26 tsunami, tourists in Thailand and villagers in Sri Lanka could have been alerted to run for higher ground. Even Sumatrans near the epicenter might have recognized the danger posed by a coastal quake and dashed inland.
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Comparing operating cash flows to net income lets investors weed out disasters early.
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Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.
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Other nations could learn from Japan's well-established tsunami warning system, writes Jamie Miyazaki.
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Setting the clocks ahead comes early this year. Are your gadgets and applications ready to spring forward?
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Combining the assets of NASA and the EPA with NOAA's weather information is at the heart of a new NASA project called IDEA:  Infusing Satellite Data into Environmental Air Quality Applications. IDEA will improve forecasters' ability to track regional pollution and make air quality forecasts.
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Kernel development is getting faster, and testing has to keep up. This early warning tool gives developers insight into changes that could hurt performance.
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Symantec Corp. sent out what turned to be a false alarm thought its early warning system late Friday, warning companies that an Internet-crippling attack was under way.
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Scientists are planning to take the pulse of the planet &#151; and more &#151; in an effort to improve weather forecasts, predict energy needs months in advance, anticipate disease outbreaks and even tell fishermen where the catch will be abundant.
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A global early warning system for threats to public health is now able to search for risky developments and send out alerts in six languages rather than English alone, its sponsors announced on Wednesday.
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The European Union has found new partners in its campaign against global warming: weather forecasters.
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They help predict the path of weather halfway around the world or in space, shed light on the death of dinosaurs and train pilots to fly in Alaska. They're supercomputers, capable of high-speed calculations that would take people trillions of years to do.