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Aviation
Weather Center - The Aviation Weather Center
(AWC), located in Kansas
City, MO, enhances aviation safety by issuing accurate warnings,
forecasts and analyses of hazardous weather for aviation interests.
The Center identifies existing or imminent weather hazards to
aircraft in flight and creates warnings for transmission to
the aviation community. The Center also originates operational
forecasts of weather conditions that will affect domestic and
international aviation interests out to two days. The Center
collaborates with universities, governmental research laboratories,
Federal Aviation Administration facilities, international meteorological
watch offices and other National Weather Service components
to maintain a leading edge in aviation meteorology hazards training,
operations and forecast techniques development.
Some of the products available from the Center:
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Standard
Briefing
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International
Flight Folder
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NOAA
Aircraft Operations Center - 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.
• Aircraft
• Frequently
Asked Questions - How
slow can a helicopter fly? How do I become a meteorologist for
the NOAA Hurricane Hunters?
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Hurricane
Research - The
Hurricane Research Division (HRD) of NOAA's
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
is engaged in advancing the basic physical understanding and
improving the forecasts of hurricanes and tropical meteorological
systems. A key aspect of HRD's activity is its annual field
program of flights aboard NOAA's research aircraft (two WP-3D
turboprops and a Gulfstream IV-SP jet) flown by NOAA's
Aircraft Operations Center.
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Hurricane
Field Program Information - Each
Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons the Hurricane Research
Division conducts a field program in which data from the NOAA
aircraft is collected and processed.
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Hurricane
Research Aircraft
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