So far, laboratory experiments meant to measure how plants will respond to warmer temperatures in the future haven't worked well, and computer models to forecast regional climate effects have fared no better, NASA and university researchers recently concluded.

WSJ: A Science of Signs of Spring

Forecast models show these warmer regions as being below normal by fall, a harbinger of excess storm activity.

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He said it would provide cleaner and more accurate data for the computer models used to forecast the weather.

BBC: Jersey weather radar upgrade 'improves forecasts'

Argo data, along with satellite and other ocean data, feed into regional and global forecast models used for ocean and climate prediction over seasons, years, and decades.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Although tornado forecasting has remarkably improved over the last two decades with advanced forecasting techniques, weather satellites, numerical forecast models and Doppler weather radar, there is much about tornado forecasting that still remains a mystery.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

You either have to know (or learn) how to evaluate these trends, how to understand new, innovative business models and how to forecast their potential for success.

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We are expecting some intensification and right now, most of the models and the NHC forecast - the National Hurricane Center forecast is calling for Ike to regain major status as a low-end category three.

NPR: Hurricanes Wreak Havoc In Haiti And Cuba

They forecast that if temperatures rise as projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1, 000 years, probably driving a transformation of the ecosystem.

FORBES: Forests and Climate Change: a Combustible Combination

The halt of sales and production of the company's most popular U.S. models will cause this month's sales to tumble 12 percent compared to January 2009, according to a forecast from sales tracker Edmunds.com.

CNN: Toyota president 'sorry to have made customers uneasy'