January 2017

NOAA UAS Program’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) Project: A Case Study for the End-to-End Utilization of High- and Low-altitude Unmanned Aircraft Systems The American Meteorological Society 97th Annual Meeting: AMS will hold its annual meeting in Seattle with a theme of “Observations Lead the Way.” Many NOAA scientists will take part in panels on a wide range of topics including the Next Generation Weather Prediction System, NOAA’s Big Data Project, transitioning social […]

NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) Project: Strategies for Improving and Augmenting Existing Satellite and Manned Aircraft Observations with Recent Pacific El Niño and Atlantic Hurricane Rapid Response Global Hawk Flights The American Meteorological Society 97th Annual Meeting: AMS will hold its annual meeting in Seattle with a theme of “Observations Lead the Way.” Many NOAA scientists will take part in panels on a wide range of topics including the Next Generation Weather

ESIP follows NOAA’s Environmental Data Management Workshop bringing Inter-Agency data management expertise together The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 – 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for the Federation’s activities over the next three years. The 2017 theme will be woven into meeting sessions, collaboration-area activities and community outreach,

ESRL’s PSD establishes Preliminary Data Archiving for Global Hawk UAS Missions 2015-16 The goal of the Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) mission is to evaluate the ability of observations from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to improve the forecasts of high-impact weather events and mitigate any degradation in the forecasts in the event of a gap in satellite observations. The project has collected observations during three dedicated campaigns with the NASA Global Hawk to

A high-flying, long-endurance drone that once spied for the U.S. Air Force is in the final phases of a tryout for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a storm chaser. So far, the judges are impressed. The aircraft – the Global Hawk, and one of the first ones built – has successfully flown observational patterns directly above five Atlantic hurricanes over the past two years, dropping data-gathering canisters called sondes and taking atmospheric readings