The Gulfstream IVSP Sees Inside Fabian
The NOAA Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) flew into the eye of Hurricane Fabian, a Category 4 storm, on September 1st, 2003. The aircraft launched from St. Croix at 1251 EDT and landed back in St. Croix at 1607 EDT. <more>

Bow Echo and Meso-Scale Convective Vortices Experiment
Fresh out of a major maintenance overhaul and fully instrumented by AOC engineers and technicians for severe storm research, a NOAA P-3 called Kermit deployed from its home at MacDill AFB to Mid America airport in western Illinois, just each of St. Louis, MO, on May 19th to participate in the Bow Echo and Meso-Scale Convective Vortices Experiment, known by the acronym Bamex. <more>

NOAA Scientists Participate in Snow Study to Improve Water, Weather and Climate Forecasts
For a second year, NOAA will again join university students and scientists from five federal agencies in the Cold Land Processes Field Experiment in the Colorado Rockies to study snowpacks from the ground, air and space in an effort to better understand water, weather and climate in cold land<more>

Ms. Piggy Returns Home From Bolivia
AOC's Lockheed WP-3D Orion N43RF, affectionaly known as Ms. Piggy, returned to its home base in Tampa in early February after completing a field program that took the aircraft and its crew afar. <more>

Tampa Bay Day
What do you get when you place the three largest NOAA offices in Tampa Bay together for a day of orientation, information sharing, and an afternoon at the beach? The foundation of a stronger, more corporate NOAA identity; something far greater than the sum of its parts in the region.<more>

Atlantic Right Whale Photogrammetry
In the study of biological systems we learn most about plants and animals buy collecting specimens of various ages, measure them weight them, check their sex, get their age at maturity, feed them and measure growth rates etc. <more>

NOAA G-IV Winter Storms Reconnaissance Update
As of February 9, 2003, the NOAA Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) has conducted five missions supporting the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Winter Storms Reconnaissance (WSR-03) operational effort in 2003. <more>

Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program
In the short, 0 48 hour lead time range forecasts over the Pacific coastal area are adversely affected by the sparsity of in situ observations over the upstream northeast Pacific basin. The relative disadvantage of the west coast areas arising from their geographical location can be ameliorated by enhancements in the observational network over the northeast Pacific. <more>

Snow Survey in the Last Frontier
Beginning in 2002, the NWS embarked on a ground-breaking survey in this country’s 49th state. Alaska became the newest addition to a long list of states where snow is surveyed by an office of the NWS called NOHRSC (National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center). <more>

2002 Mid Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Aerial Surveys
Along the eastern seaboard of the United States there exists a coastal migratory stock or population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). This nomadic stock of dolphins moves north and south along the coastline depending on the season and water temperature. <more>