NASA's 2013 HS3 mission will investigate whether Saharan dust and its associated warm and dry air, known as the Saharan Air Layer favors or suppresses the development of tropical cyclones.
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HS3 Mission to Delve into Saharan Dust
NASA's HS3 Mission May Target Cape Verde Island ...
NASA's multi-year Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel mission may explore tropical cyclones of Cape Verde origins when it takes to the skies again this August.
NASA’s HS3 Mission Aircraft to Double Team 2013 ...
NASA's HS3 airborne mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean to investigate storms using additional instruments and for the first time two Global Hawks.
NASA's HS3 Hurricane Mission Ends for 2012
NASA's 2012 HS3 mission came to an end Nov. 6 when an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft flew a final data-collection mission in the North Pacific Ocean.
HS3 Images on Flickr
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HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived Hurricane Nadine
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights over the storm.
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Cutting-Edge Technology Makes NASA's Hurricane Mission a Reality
Scientists are currently flying state-of-the-art, autonomously operated instruments to gather difficult-to-obtain measurements of wind speeds, precipitation, and cloud structures in and around tropical storms.
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NASA Ames Plays Key Role in the HS3 Global Hawk Mission
The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) investigation is a five-year mission targeted to enhance our understanding of the processes that underlie hurricane intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
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NASA Plane Helps Develop New Science Instruments
Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.
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Nadine (Atlantic Ocean)
Nadine's life came to an end in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, 23 days after its birth.
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NASA's Hurricane Mission Takes Flight
NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia
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Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
HS3, will study hurricanes at the end of the summer, flying two high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft with different instruments over the storms.
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HS3 Introduction for Educators video →
NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission uses Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles to study tropical storms and hurricanes. This nine-minute video describes the mission.
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As it Happens: GRIP Photos →
Ride along with scientists, with the help of Flickr, as they explore tropical cyclones. This gallery shows photographs snapped during NASA's GRIP mission.
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NASA's Global Hawk Takes on Hurricanes
NASA's unmanned Global Hawk aircraft joins the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes, or GRIP, mission to study hurricanes.