Earth - Weather Topics
Hurricane Georges puts on a light show
1998 — April 6, 2011
CAMEX team treated to purple sprites and weird Lightningon the last flight of the mission.
GLOBE hits the beach
1998 — April 6, 2011
Days #2 and #3, teachers practice hydrology on the Azov Sea shore
Bonnie cuts a towering figure
1998 — April 6, 2011
Satellite radar shows a mountainous cloud chimney during the hurricane - twice as tall as Mt. Everest.
Aircraft make second flight with TRMM
1998 — April 6, 2011
CAMEX-3 status report
GLOBE team wraps up week of intense training
1998 — April 6, 2011
the last day of the workshop - teachers put their new-found training to the test
Eye-to-eye, and Bonnie winks
1998 — April 6, 2011
All three NASA and NOAA aircraft teams make first sortie to hurricane Bonnie and get to study her structure at the same time.
Islands in the (Air) Stream
1998 — April 6, 2011
The quest to understand how rapid urban growth affects local and regional weather and, potentially, the global climate is on. NASA scientists will measure thermal radiation from growing cities by flying an instrument-laden Lear jet over Baton Rouge, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City.
CAMEX aircraft make test runs
1998 — April 6, 2011
CAMEX flies over tropical storm weather in successful calibration run.
Calibration flight planned today
1998 — April 6, 2011
CAMEX first flight to validate Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite measurements.
Accurate "Thermometers" in Space
1997 — April 6, 2011