The CSU/CIRA mission is called the Investigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) and will be the third NASA Earth Ventures mission. It will cost $177 million, and feature three small satellites built by Colorado companies. (Colorado Springs Gazette)
An example of CIRA's dust RGB imagery, the false-color views were created using different wavelengths of infrared light to distinguish airborne dust from clouds. (Discover Magazine)
Here are some of the records Cyclone Freddy has already (or may have) broken according to experts at Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. (Forbes)
Faculty and staff plan to bring more than 20 engineering programs and research projects to the Hydro grand opening to showcase the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Spur.
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Thomas Vonder Haar founded the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, led the atmospheric science graduate program to its ranking as one of the top three in the U.S. and made CSU a recognized leader in satellite meteorology.
INCUS, or Investigation of Convective Updrafts, is expected to launch three small weather satellites into low-Earth orbit in 2026.
On Tuesday, all eyes were on Hurricane Ian, a category 4 (and possibly higher) hurricane about to hit the southwest coast of Florida and the surrounding region.
Ever since 2005, Professor Miller has specialized in using state-of-the-art satellites to study Earth with the ultimate goal of learning how to predict the occurrence of milky sea events. (Forbes)
A new paper compares satellite observations of a 2019 milky sea event to photographic evidence from a private ship.
A chance encounter with a rare phenomenon called a milky sea connects a sailor and a scientist to explain the ocean’s ghostly glow. (Hakai Magazine)