Above: A platform designed to stabilize a large Doppler lidar as it operates inside an airplane flying through a hurricane. You wouldn’t dream of flying through a hurricane, would you? Yet NOAA has ...

"Hurricanes wobble all over the place." Employee dumbfounded by coworker's bizarre claim about hurricane radar images: ...

A Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR). Image credit: NOAA. The TDWR products are very similar to those available for the traditional WSR-88D NEXRAD sites. There is the standard radar ...

National Hurricane Center forecasts rely on hurricane hunters, including flight crews who fly into hurricanes to gather data.

They also maintain a national grid of Doppler radar systems and manage a fleet of NOAA satellites that collect all kinds of crucial earth science data. “Any gap in the monitoring of the Earth ...

NOAA's two WP-3D Orion aircraft collect Doppler radar data that's fed into the models, a capability that doesn't exist in the Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft, Franklin said.

NOAA officials told The Transcript they did not have a statement regarding the lease cancelation at this time. The Radar Operations ... and repair the nation’s Doppler weather radars.