Articles tagged with: Weather and Towers

Mobile Phone Towers Could Help Predict Flash Flooding

..el Aviv University say that they can use mobile phone towers to predict the intensity of  weather derived flooding, before it arrives. They said that such a technique could have acted as an early-warning for New Orleans when Hurricane Katr more

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Mobile Phone Towers to Monitor African Weather

A new partnership has been announced that will place weather monitoring stations on up to 5,000 mobile phone towers operated by Zain, and other mobile networks, across the African continent. The initiative is being backed by the Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.  more

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