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P.O. Box 6829
MacDill AFB, FL 33608-0829
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The
airplanes and helicopters of the Aircraft Operations
Center (AOC) are flown in support of NOAA's mission
to promote global environmental assessment, prediction
and stewardship of the Earth's environment. NOAA's aircraft
operate throughout the United States and around the
world; over open oceans, mountains, coastal wetlands,
and Arctic pack ice. These versatile aircraft provide
scientists with airborne platforms necessary to collect
the environmental and geographic data essential to their
research.
NOAA
demonstrates a challenging and multi-disciplinary approach
to meeting the responsibilities as the "Earth Systems
Agency". The Aircraft Operations Center provides
capable, mission-ready aircraft and professional crews
to the scientific community wherever and whenever they
are required. Whether studying global climate change
or acid rain, assessing marine mammal populations, surveying
coastal erosion, investigating oil spills, flight checking
aeronautical charts, or improving hurricane prediction
models, the AOC flight crews continue to operate in
some of the world's most demanding flight regimes.
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Get On Board The Hurricane
Hunter
Imagine eight computer work stations linked to some of
the world's most advanced climate-probing equipment, slicing
through the air at low altitudes hammered by hurricane-force
winds, buffeted by bliding rain and breakneck ... <more>
Hurricane Hunters Go Where
Others Fear to Fly
Riding the storm out takes on a whole new meaning for
a few admitted adrenaline junkies who take to the skies
when a hurricane turns deadly and stare straight into
the face of the danger... <more>
NOAA
Experiment Aims to Improve Winter Storm Forecasts Along
Westcoast
High winds, heavy rain and extreme surf conditions have
already battered West Coast residents this winter, and
NOAA researchers hope a new experiment will give them
an edge over the storms. This week's experiment ...
<more>
BRACE
Study Launched to Determine Influence of Air Pollution
on Water Quality in Tampa Bay
The Florida Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that
May 1 will begin a month-long series of intensive studies
to determine the level of influence of nitrogen deposited
into Tampa Bay from local and regional sources of air
pollutants on water quality. <more>
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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>
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>
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>
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