Join us Welcome to the NOAA AOC Science Section website, home of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters! We are part of the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), a branch of the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO). The AOC has airplanes that are flown across the U.S. and around the world, providing airborne platforms that are essential to the gathering of environmental and geographic data for scientific research. We fly over everything from oceans and wetlands to mountains and Arctic ice--even into the eyes of hurricanes--to support NOAA's mission of understanding and better predicting environmental changes.
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Click here to view flight tracks and en-route data. (Requires Google Earth)