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Operations Center (AOC)
P.O. Box 6829
MacDill AFB, FL 33608-0829
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The
Aircraft Operations Center is a Center of the NOAA Marine
and Aviation Office. The airplanes and helicopters 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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Into the Eye of the Storm
NOAA goes hurricane hunting
Army Air Forces Colonel Duckworth was not amused. As World
War II raged overseas, the flight instructor at Bryant
Field in Texas has the unenviable task of teaching cocky
British pilots how to fly on instruments.... <more>
Get
On Board The Hurricane Hunter
Imagine eight computer work stations linked to some of
the world's most advanced climate-probing equipment, slicing
through the air at low altitudes hammered by hurricane-force
winds, buffeted by bliding rain and breakneck ... <more>
Hurricane
Hunters Go Where Others Fear to Fly
Riding the storm out takes on a whole new meaning for
a few admitted adrenaline junkies who take to the skies
when a hurricane turns deadly and stare straight into
the face of the danger... <more>
NOAA
Experiment Aims to Improve Winter Storm Forecasts Along
Westcoast
High winds, heavy rain and extreme surf conditions have
already battered West Coast residents this winter, and
NOAA researchers hope a new experiment will give them
an edge over the storms. This week's experiment ...
<more>
BRACE
Study Launched to Determine Influence of Air Pollution
on Water Quality in Tampa Bay
The Florida Department
of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that
May 1 will begin a month-long series of intensive studies
to determine the level of influence of nitrogen deposited
into Tampa Bay from local and regional sources of air
pollutants on water quality. <more> |
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NOAA Announces New International Monsoon Research Program
NOAA and Mexico's weather service, the Servicio Meteorologico Nacional, have joined forces to develop improved monsoon season forecasts. <more>
The Gulfstream Will Enhance Winter Storm Forecasting Throughout the US
NOAA's Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) aircraft has been tasked by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) to provide support for the Winter Storm Reconnaissance 2004 (WSR-04) mission during the period January 17 through March 15, 2004. <more>
The
Gulfstream IVSP Sees Inside Fabian
The NOAA Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) flew into the eye of
Hurricane Fabian, a Category 4 storm, on September 1st,
2003. The aircraft launched from St. Croix at 1251 EDT
and landed back in St. Croix at 1607 EDT. <more>
Bow
Echo and Meso-Scale Convective Vortices Experiment
Fresh out of a major
maintenance overhaul and fully instrumented by AOC engineers
and technicians for severe storm research, a NOAA P-3
called Kermit deployed from its home at MacDill AFB
to Mid America airport in western Illinois, just each
of St. Louis, MO, on May 19th to participate in the
Bow Echo and Meso-Scale Convective Vortices Experiment,
known by the acronym Bamex. <more>
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