Track a NOAA WP-3 Orion inside of Hurricane Irene

NOAA’s highly instrumented aircraft from the Aircraft Operations Center play an integral role in hurricane forecasting. Data collected during hurricanes by these airborne meteorological platforms and from a variety of other sources are fed into numerical computer models to provide better forecasts of how intense a hurricane will be, and when and where it will make landfall. These data, from the aircraft, fulfill two important purposes: to help forecasters make accurate predictions during a… (flightaware.com) More...