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September 14, 2016
NSF's Gulfstream V aircraft has returned from a short-term loan to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The high-altitude, atmospheric science research plane provided observations of dangerous hurricanes while a NOAA plane underwent maintenance. The NSF Gulfstream V aircraft, operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, flies as high as 51,000 feet allowing scientists to collect data from the Earth’s surface to the tops of storms. Onboard, the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System deployed GPS dropsondes to obtain atmospheric profiles of temperature and winds in real time. The aircraft made surveillance flights targeting storm systems that pose a high risk to the U.S. Data processed aboard the aircraft was sent to the World Meteorological Organization for immediate inclusion in hurricane forecast models.
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NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V high-altitude science research aircraft returns from loan to NOAA
The NSF/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Gulfstream V high-altitude science research aircraft returns from a short-term loan to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), after successfully ensuring there was no gap in observations of dangerous hurricanes.
Credit: NSF/NOAA/NCAR
NSF's Gulfstream V aircraft has returned from a short-term loan to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The high-altitude, atmospheric science research plane provided observations of dangerous hurricanes while a NOAA plane underwent maintenance. The NSF Gulfstream V aircraft, operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, flies as high as 51,000 feet allowing scientists to collect data from the Earth’s surface to the tops of storms. Onboard, the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System deployed GPS dropsondes to obtain atmospheric profiles of temperature and winds in real time. The aircraft made surveillance flights targeting storm systems that pose a high risk to the U.S. Data processed aboard the aircraft was sent to the World Meteorological Organization for immediate inclusion in hurricane forecast models.
Images and other media in the National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery are available for use in print and electronic material by NSF employees, members of the media, university staff, teachers and the general public. All media in the gallery are intended for personal, educational and nonprofit/non-commercial use only.
Videos credited to the National Science Foundation, an agency of the U.S. Government, may be distributed freely. However, some materials within the videos may be copyrighted. If you would like to use portions of NSF-produced programs in another product, please contact the Video Team in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation.
Additional information about general usage can be found in Conditions.