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The Aircraft Operations Center is a Center of the NOAA Marine and Aviation Office. The airplanes 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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Critical TV (3.0) Mention. Weather Channel Video Clip, August 14, 2008
... time to take a look at the tropics, and we have some activity to maybe not alert you too, but something you may want to keep watching. There are three different systems, all kind of following each other across the atlantic from east to west. We are in the time of the year when you have to watch these systems extremely close. Let's check the one that's closest to the Winward Islands and Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands right now. Actually a NOAA reconnaissance flight, research flight, is out in there right now.... <Go to Video Clip>

Hurricane Dolly Offers Silver Lining to Some Drought Stricken Texas Counties, July 25, 2008
The remnants of Hurricane Dolly have provided a mixed bag of damaging floods and welcome drought relief for residents of south Texas. <Read Full Story>

In the Eye of the Storm - Occupational Health & Safety, January 2008
St. Elmo's Fire, with its eerie emanations of iridescent hues, possesses a mystical quality for many. For centures, sailors either sought shelter or stood in awe of it. But for Greg Bast, the phenomenon is just another part of his job. <Read Full Story>