Ramesh Kakar, the Weather Focus Area leader for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, makes opening remarks at NASA’s airborne Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission science and deployment preparation meeting at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, on April 29, 2014.
Kakar is the manager for the Atmospheric Dynamics/Precipitation Programs and the program scientist for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Aqua satellites. He is also the program scientist for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, the Core Observatory of which launched earlier this year.
NASA’s airborne HS3 mission will revisit the Atlantic Ocean for the third year in a row. HS3 is a collaborative effort that brings together several NASA centers with federal and university partners to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin. The flights from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia will take place between Aug. 26 and Sept. 29 during the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
Image credit: NASA/Ames/Dominic Hart
Text credit: Rachel Hoover, NASA Ames