Chunzai Wang of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has performed a very interesting data-based analysis of Atlantic hurricane tracks showing that increasing the area of warm water results in a significant lowering of the likelihood that a storm will strike the U.S., something that should happen with continued oceanic warming.
The software company hopes to prove that its data collection and analysis technology so that it could win a long-term contract with the water district and perhaps other utilities as well.