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An army of meteorologists, guarding holiday gifts
2014-12-09 03:23:31| Air Courier - Topix.net
Deep within a global operations nerve center in Memphis, a team of specially trained operatives scans data from nearly 200 countries, issues urgent "SNOCON" alerts and tracks a fleet of cargo jets via a glowing, wall-size "war board." They are corporate meteorologists, commanded to help keep hectic holiday shipments on time, snow or shine.
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Meteorologists assist FedEx in holiday shipping effort
2014-11-06 04:36:28| Air Courier - Topix.net
METEOROLOGIST DANIEL DOZIER TALKED TO FEDEX HOW THEY MANAGE TO SAVE CHRISTMAS. Reporter: EACH YEAR ANY AMERICANS RELY ON SHIPPING COMPANIES TO DELIVER THEIR PACKAGES ON TIME.
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Climate change: meteorologists preparing for worst
2014-08-21 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Intense aerial turbulence, ice storms and scorching heatwaves, huge ocean waves-the world's climate experts forecast apocalyptic weather over the coming decades at a conference in Montreal that ended Thursday. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) brought together 1,000 specialists to discuss the uncertain future of weather forecasting. A decade after the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, the world's focus has shifted from reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to warming, to dealing...
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Offshore Weather Services-Weather Forecasting, Meteorologists and Weather Briefing and Consultation
2014-08-13 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Offshore Weather Services employs the latest technology in order to provide the most accurate weather forecasts and the highest standard of service. OWS utilise sophisticated global atmospheric model...
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Canada Bars Its Meteorologists From Mentioning Climate Change
2014-06-02 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Just weeks after President Obama made on-air appearances with meteorologists explicitly to address climate change, a journalist learned that in Canada, official policy dictates that government-employed meteorologists arent supposed to talk about climate change at all. Government scientists speak to their area of expertise, a government spokesman recently wrote to journalist Mike DeSouza defending the policy. For example, our Weather Preparedness Meteorologists are experts in their field of...
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