CloudSat Stories

Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and…

Clouds are one of the biggest wildcards in predictions of how much and how fast the Arctic will continue to warm in the future. Depending on the time of the year and the changing environment in which they form and…

NASA research could help to improve forecasts of whether a hurricane will suddenly intensify, which could give people in its path more time to prepare. In October 2015, Hurricane Patricia in the Northeast Pacific Ocean blew up from a Category…