Carlos-Luis...thanks for your question regarding NASA and its meteorological work.

Daily weather prediction is key to NASA operations, be it looking at weather patterns for an upcoming rocket launch...or forecasting what the weather will be like when a space shuttle orbiter is ready to head back home from orbit and make a landing.

But there's a lot more to weather watching than meets the meteorological eye!

Making use of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, NASA scientists study weather patterns around the entire world - all to help glue together an accurate picture about Earth's climate. Meteorologists draw conclusions and make predictions about how our climate will translate into local weather every day. They also create computer models that predict how climate and weather may vary in the future as a result of human activity.

Also, there's an even bigger picture to weather - space weather! Given Earth's dynamic Sun, our neighboring star tosses out huge amounts of energy that impacts this planet's environment. More and more attention is being paid to space weather, to help unravel what role space weather has on planet Earth, as well as its impact on satellites and human spacecraft orbiting the Earth or heading out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

Lastly, don't forget about the weather on other planets.

To investigate what meteorological jobs at NASA are available, check out:

http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/

Also, go to http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/amu/

You'll be tapping into the Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU), a tri-agency cooperative effort for transitioning new techniques from the research arena to improve operational weather forecasting and analysis in support of the space shuttle and the national space program.

Other web sites you might find useful - and to give you an idea of the rich variety of weather and Earth-watching research activities, try out:

http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/Education/ed_sites.html

I hope you find all of this useful...

-- Leonard David