Arranged in a grid, the sensors can form a crude image of whatever the muons passed through to reach the sensor. Each scintillator sensor is extremely dense to maximize the chances that a muon will interact with it. These are the sensors used to detect the weakly interacting muon particles. We do this using a technique called muography, which you can think of like an X-ray, but for seeing inside truly enormous things." "What we offer the world is the ability to do just this, visualize large-scale weather phenomena like cyclones from a 3D perspective, and in real time too. But I doubt you've ever seen a cyclone from the side, perhaps as a computer graphic, but never as actual captured sensor data," said Tanaka. "You've probably seen photographs of cyclones taken from above, showing swirling vortices of clouds. A team of researchers, led by Professor Hiroyuki Tanaka from Muographix at the University of Tokyo, offer the world of meteorology a novel way of detecting and exploring tropical cyclones using a quirk of particle physics that takes place above our heads all the time. Weather prediction and early warning systems have always been important, but with increased storm activity it seems especially so these days. It's hard not to notice the number of stories in the news about heavy storms in different parts of the world, often attributed to climate change.
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