Particles from space provide insights about cyclones

According to the researchers, the new approach could lead to a better understanding of storms, as well as offer another tool to help forecast the weather.

" Cosmic rays are sustainable natural resources that can be used everywhere on this planet for 24 hours a day, so it's just a matter of taking advantage of them.

By counting the number of muons arriving at a detector on the ground in Kagoshima, Japan, they were able to create rough 3-D maps of the density of air inside the storms. The team was given an inside look at the low-pressure regions at the centers rotating storm systems.

The density of the air increases with air pressure. That increases the chance that a muon born from a Cosmic Ray will be bumped off its path on the way to a detector, or that it will break down before it makes it all the way through the atmospher

The number of muons that survive passage from the upper atmosphere to the ground decreases by 2 percent for every 1 percent increase in air pressure.

The number of muons that survive passage from the upper atmospherHe suspects that others have used particles from the sun to study weather, as he has previously used muons from the sun to look inside volcanoes. He says that this is the first time that anyone has made 3-D scans of the insides of a storm.e to the ground decreases by 2 percent for every 1 percent increase in air pressure.

Frank Marks of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami was not involved in the research.

It would complement our existing techniques to provide 3-D mapping of the storms with our other traditional observing systems such as satellites and radar.

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