Meteorology Since the 1960s
By Katie L. Burke
In this live video Q&A, Lance Bosart of University of Albany discusses how weather forecasts have progressed with the onset of new tools and ideas over the past few decades.
April 18, 2017
From The Staff Environment Climatology
Lance Bosart, a meteorologist at the University of Albany, has been studying an array of weather and atmospheric processes since the 1960s. His research has been instrumental in improving weather predictions for extreme events, and he is fascinated by the events, such as floods and snows, that at times evade prediction by meteorologists. In this Q&A, I spoke with Bosart about the tools that have come on the scene since the 1960s, and how the field of meteorology has changed and progressed over that time.
Talking Weather with Lance Bosart
Lance Bosart began studying meteorology in the 1960s; what weather can be predicted and how forecasts are made have changed dramatically since then.
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