A warming world will require more accurate hurricane forecasts to save lives and property.
was last month, when a 23-foot Saildrone braved 50-foot waves and 100-mph winds in Hurricane Fiona, a Category 4 storm.
The goal of these encounters is to gather data at the air-sea interface, in order to learn more about how a storm is drawing heat and moisture from the ocean. "The heat and momentum fluxes are the way the ocean and the atmosphere talk to each other," said Johna Rudzin, an assistant professor of meteorology and physical oceanography at Mississippi State University.Saildronefor years, but the latest generation is more sophisticated, providing real-time views of a hurricane's shifting track and intensity."They're so new," Frank Marks, director of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, said of the drones.
Going forward, the "kind of technology combination we're looking for is the manned aircraft flying the safer part of the storm a little higher" while drones dive into the eye.The big picture:
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