纪录片《全球怪象》 第41期：卫星提供的数据（在线收听）

The technological development that's driven the improved accuracy forecast

促成这种准确性的科技

floats thousands of miles above us.

漂浮在数千里的高空

Satellites.

卫星

We've got so much more information because of all the satellites.

借助卫星我们能获取更多的信息

We know you need to know what's going on globally to get a good forecast

你需要知道全球都在发生什么变化

of what's going to happen in the UK for the next five days.

才能更好预测英国未来五日的天气情况

You can't do it without global coverage.

没有全球范围的数据就不能预报

Satellites have given us that global coverage.

卫星给了我们全球的数据

Satellites provide huge amounts of information

卫星提供了大量信息

about the world's most extreme weather events.

告诉了我们世界最极端天气

But making sense of them...

但要处理这些信息

requires one of these.

需要这个东西

This is the Met Office's computer behemoth.

这是英国气象局的巨型计算机