04/10/2026
Recently, Professor Lynn McMurdie, graduate student Valeria Garcia, and postdoc Troy Zaremba joined the NASA research mission, North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment (NURTURE), based out of Labrador, Canada. The research team is flying directly into developing storms to gather data from largely unmeasured parts of the Arctic atmosphere. Using specialized aircraft and instruments, the team studies clouds, moisture, and energy exchanges in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions to improve weather forecasting models, particularly for rapidly changing and hard-to-predict systems. Researchers say the data collected could lead to more accurate forecasts days in advance, benefiting everything from daily weather predictions to aviation safety and climate research, especially in northern regions where current data gaps make forecasting more difficult.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nasa-mission-labrador-forecast-weather-9.7136435
