Re: "HRD kicks off 2021 Hurricane Field Program"
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 5/29/2021, 4:58 am
I had no idea they had a new drone to use. Cool. Article from January 25th, 2021:

https://www.noaa.gov/stories/drones-hunt-hurricanes-noaa-puts-some-to-test

"In clear skies over Maryland the week of January 11, NOAA scientists launched a new uncrewed small aircraft - a research drone - from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter plane to test its ability to gather weather data that could improve hurricane forecasts.

'We're hopeful this new technology, once it can be successfully tested in a hurricane environment, will improve our understanding of the boundary layer and advance NOAA forecast models used in forecasts,' said Joseph Cione, lead meteorologist at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Hurricane Research Division. 'Ultimately, these new observations could help emergency managers make informed decisions on evacuations before tropical cyclones make landfall.'"



They had previously flown a drone like this (Coyote), but I think the funding might have run out, I forget. Coyote data was previously released into this folder when they used that drone from 2015 through 2018 at times:

https://seb.noaa.gov/pub/flight/coyote/

I'll have to keep an eye out to see if data pops up somewhere else on that site.

I searched for a little bit more about the new drone and also saw this PDF file about it and the older drone as well:

https://www.icams-portal.gov/meetings/TCORF/ihc20/session_2/2-7_cione.pdf
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