what is the technology to predict the frequency, track and estimate the power of an blizzard?
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they use the same technonolgy to track blizzards as other storms and they can estimate the power by the amount of moisture the cloud contains and the temp.
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You take lots of measurements of wind velocity, temperature and barometric pressure at many grid points, each of which defines a "cell" (a small volume of air -- small compared to the size of the hurricane, that is). From pressure and temperature you can estimate density of each cell, and from the cell volume, the cell's mass. Kinetic energy = 0.5*M*V^2.  Compute for each cell and add 'em up.
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Sierra Pacific Infrared\n\nhttp://www.x20.org/
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A blizzard is a heavy snow storm with high winds and can hit anywhere that it snows. A nor'easter is a storm that starts in Canada, swoops down into America and then follows the eastcoast "Northeast" up into New England with heavy snow fall.
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1. Blizzard\n2. Flash flood\n3. Typhoon\n4. Funnel cloud\n5. Tornado\n6. Monsoon
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Hurricanes, Blizzards, Monsoons, and Tsunamis
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A lot of Science and Maths goes behind such predictions. Data collected from satellites, weather balloons, planes and land based instruments is analysed for numerical patterns. These patterns are then processed and compared with findings of a particular time span when a certain amount of known rainfall occurred. In the end a forecast is issued.\n\nNowadays, the job is done by Super Computers but there still remains a large room for errors.
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What kind of detector?
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try www.hurricanetrack.com
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This national weather service website should give you some interesting statistics to work with. Good luck.\nhttp://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/3-month-archive.shtml
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Really professional modeling and graphic dispays of real weather is IDL. There is a student version.\nOne of the examples is the cross section of a thunderstorm. One could download information from the weather service and plot/model it on your computer. I have a little trouble learning it, but there are real rewards eventually. Also there is a site with a program for globes on icosahedrons using satelite data, Mars, Moon pictures and print out a globe.
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I'd go with your first respondent who said "WeatherBug". It's a free program, and has proven to have reasonably accurate radar (more frequently updated, I've found, than weather.com). It does contain ads, but every so often, it'll prompt you to choose which ads are running in the background. Anyway, WeatherBug might seem a bit elementary to some people, but in cases of tracking severe storms with basic radar, I've used it with good results.  \n\nhttp://www.weatherbug.com
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Forecasting is neither pure art nor pure science. Its a mix.\n\nFor oil consumption, I think it depends on variables like inflation, oil price, population, tax. Seasonal effect might have to be considered as well (you might need to do 'deseasonalization'.\n\nExcel and Minitab can do simple statistical methods like weighted average, exponential smoothing, and regression. Complex analyses require advanced software like SPSS.\n\nBy the way, I recommend that you ask an expert for forcasting. Because selection of method and setting parameters (you need to know statistical concepts) are far more difficult than choosing software.
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New state-of-the-art radar technology designed to help future forecasters provide earlier warnings for tornadoes and other types of severe and hazardous weather was unveiled recently at the NOAA National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Okla. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is an agency of the Commerce Department
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GOOGLE EARTH or NASA WORLD WIND, depending on what exactly you need, both are free of charge, downloadable and partially renewable.\ncheers
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I think microsoft's site has good info on this technology : http://atlas.asp.net/
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Go to Micro soft, type in power toys, and look for Calc plus. it is free!