With this weekend’s arrival of the NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft on Virginia’s eastern shore, scientists and pilots are now ready to start the NOAA-led mission to improve hurricane forecasts of track and intensity using data collected by the Global Hawk during the season’s hurricanes. [EasyDNNGallery|3094|Width|200|Height|200|position|left|resizecrop|False|lightbox|True|title|True|description|True|redirection|False|LinkText||]The Global Hawk landed Saturday...
"The Global Hawk, managed by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, provides a unique vantage point for weather observations because it flies higher and longer than any manned aircraft. It allows data collection from 60,000 feet, an altitude nearly 20,000 feet higher than manned aircraft, to the ocean surface. It can gather weather data continuously for up to 24 hours."
Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) is associated with the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013, passed by Congress in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Sandy.
Question: Are the days of the old fashioned hurricane hunter's numbered?











