This program covers the weather in all its aspects: how it is measured, the efforts to forecast it, its economic and human effects. The immensely complex physics, chemistry, and mathematics scientists use to study the atmospheric system—from the sun, through the interplanetary medium, to the upper radial reflecting areas of the earth’s atmosphere, down to the surface of the earth and the bottom of the seas—contrast starkly with the paltry human efforts to cope with the effects of a system like El Niño. (26 minutes)

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