Global Hawk UAS used for the East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH) Project
NOAA UAS Program teams with NASA for EPOCH which will investigate how storms develop into hurricanes and intensify. This project will conduct up to six 24-hour science flights using the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft from NASA Armstrong, 1-30 August 2017. Three of the flights are being supported through a partnership with the NOAA UAS Program. The aircraft will overfly developing tropical cyclones and collect data using 3 on-board instruments (EXRAD, HAMSR, and AVAPS). EXRAD (ER-2 […]