This summer, NOAA scientists and partners are launching a number of new unmanned aircraft and water vehicles to collect weather information as part of a coordinated effort to improve hurricane forecasts. Read more at http://go.usa.gov/EHgm.
Several of these research projects and other NOAA-led efforts to improve hurricane forecasting were made possible, in part, because of the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013. The act was passed by Congress and signed by the President in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Among other things, funding provided by this act was intended to improve weather forecasting and weather research and predictive capability to help future preparation, response and recovery from similar events.
Photo: This image was taken from the Global Hawk, a NASA unmanned aircraft, that NOAA and NASA will use this summer and fall to obtain weather data on Atlantic hurricanes without placing a manned plane and its crew at risk. (NOAA/NASA)
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