1. NASA'S TROPICAL CLOUD SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES EXPERIMENT: Investigating Tropical Cyclogenesis and Hurricane Intensity Change.
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HALVERSON, J., BLACK, M., BRAUN, S., CECIL, D., GOODMAN, M., HEYMSFIELD, A., HEYMSFIELD, G., HOOD, R., KRISHNAMURTI, T., MCFAROUHAR, G., MAHONEY, M.J., MOLINARI, J., ROGERS, R., TURK, J., VELDEN, C., ZHANG, D.-L., ZIPSER, E., and KAKAR, R.
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TROPICAL cyclones , *TECHNOLOGY , *METEOROLOGY , *STORMS , *TYPHOONS , *TORNADOES , *CLOUDS , *CLIMATOLOGY - Abstract
The article describes the efforts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in addressing issues related to tropical cyclone formation and intensification. NASA conducted a field campaign known as the Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) experiment. An outline of some of the key questions related to tropical cyclone genesis and intensity change is presented. A list of TCSP Science Team members is presented. The TCSP experiment examined some of the outstanding questions of tropical cyclone formation over the western Atlantic. TCSP explored the utility of promising new technologies such as the Aerosonde UAV, for providing tropical cyclone environments.
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- 2007
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