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HS3 Hurricane Mission

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) is a 5-year mission to investigate processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

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Maria (Northwest Pacific Ocean)

MODIS image of Maria
10.16.12

Although increased wind shear and cooler waters would weaken Maria, neither of those factors will be present over the next couple of days as the storm moves to the north-northeast over open waters.

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Paul (Eastern Pacific)

satellite image of Paul
10.16.12

Hurricane Paul is stirring up rough seas in the eastern Pacific Ocean and warnings are posted along Baja California.

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Rafael (Atlantic Ocean)

visible image of a tropical storm spiralling off the Eastern Seaboard near Cuba
10.16.12

Hurricane Rafael is a large hurricane and Bermuda has battened down for Rafael's battering today

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Anais (South Indian Ocean)

NASA's TRMM satellite's view of Tropical Storm Anais on Oct. 16 at 2:54 a.m. EDT.
10.16.12

Satellite imagery from NASA's TRMM satellite showed that wind shear is pushing the bulk of rainfall away from the center of Tropical Storm Anais.

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Patty (Atlantic Ocean)

When TRMM passed over Patty rainfall was occurring at a rate between .78 to 1.57 inches/20 to 40 mm per hour.
10.15.12

Tropical Storm Patty stretched out before she dissipated on Oct. 13 and became a trough of low pressure.

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Prapiroon (Western North Pacific Ocean)

TRMM image of Prapiroon
10.16.12

Tropical Storm Prapiroon is still meandering in the western north Pacific Ocean, and NASA's TRMM satellite noticed that dry air and wind shear are adversely affecting rainfall north of the storm's ...

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HS3 and Irene

Research News

Visible continents and an infrared Atlantic map frame the path of Nadine, staggering like a drunken monkey, overlapping the disciplined flight paths of the global hawk drone

HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived ...

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights ...

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GOES artist concept

NOAA's GOES-13 Weather Satellite Currently Has an ...

NOAA's GOES-13 weather satellite has been temporarily replaced with a back-up GOES satellite as engineers work to fix the satellite's issues.

Isaac's hot towers

Discovering Hot Towers

Two hours before Hurricane Isaac made landfall a NASA satellite observed Hot Towers in the storm.

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Globalhawk in sky

NASA Ames Plays Key Role in the HS3 Global Hawk Mission

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) investigation is a five-year mission targeted to enhance our understanding of the processes that ...

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ER-2 arrival at Wallops

NASA Plane Helps Develop New Science Instruments

Over the next few weeks, an ER-2 high altitude research aircraft will take part in the development of two future satellite instruments.

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Color-enhanced image of sea surface heights in the Gulf of Mexico

Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch

Isaac's track away from the gulf's warmest waters helped to keep it from intensifying rapidly, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita did in 2005.

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hurricane leslie with flight path

NASA's Hurricane Mission Takes Flight

NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean ...

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