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SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: How do meteorologists monitor hurricanes? Knowing where and when a hurricane will strike, as well as its likely strength, is essential to efforts to save lives. Decisions to evacuate coastal areas are based on close monitoring of these storms by NASA, NOAA, and the National Weather Service.

(NOAA PMEL Carbon Group and the University of Georgia; http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2)