John Coffey

NOAA UAS Program’s Global Hawk UAS Project for Tropic Cyclone Research is discussed during multi-line office meeting. Dr. Gary Matlock, OAR’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, briefed  SHOUT’s results to the NOAA Observing Systems Council (NOSC) on January 24th with CAPT Phil Hall, UAS Program Director, and Dr. Gary Wick SHOUT’s Principle Investigator present.  Dr Matlock covered the SHOUT’s positive results including that this study demonstrated that high altitude long endurance UAS observations are feasible, affordable, […]

NOAA UAS Program Participates in Participates in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Session at American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. For the third year in a row, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and talk of their unique applications and benefits to the meteorological community have made a big splash at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. Making its debut in a set of back-to-back sessions during the 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation at the

NOAA UAS Program SBIR Partner Briefs Testing Results at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting Data from mobile, particularly airborne, sensors have been shown to be extremely impactful relative to increasing the fidelity of NWP model output (Barwell et al. 1985, Kruus 1986, Baeda et al. 1987, Benjamin et al. 1991, Smith and Benjamin 1994, Graham et al. 2000, Schwartz et al. 2000, Zapotocny et al. 2000, Zhang et al. 2016). However, most aircraft sensing platforms do

  With a legacy of delivering reliable, robust and highly accurate small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division (ATDD) of the Air Resources Laboratory has selected Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, to integrate their SwiftCore Flight Management System with a UAV Factory Penguin BE UAV platform in support of a joint research project with the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI). Chosen for its reliability, intuitive user interface and

Title: It Takes Two: NASA and NOAA’s Shared Path of Hurricane Science Flights with the Global Hawk. Time for the Research To Operations (R2O) Transition? The impacts of Harvey, Irma, and Maria during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season re-emphasized the critical need for accurate operational forecasts. The combined NASA East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH) and NOAA UAS field campaign during August 2017 was the fourth campaign in a series of dual agency