NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment
| Autor: | Cerese Albers, Syed Ismail, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Stephen L. Durden, Shannon Brown, Jeffery Halverson, Gerald M. Heymsfield, Ramesh K. Kakar, E. Zipser, Stephen R. Guimond, Janel Rae Thomas, Scott A. Braun, Timothy L. Miller, Simone Tanelli, Andrew J. Heymsfield, Jon Zawislak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94:345-363 |
| ISSN: | 1520-0477 0003-0007 |
| DOI: | 10.1175/bams-d-11-00232.1 |
| Popis: | In August–September 2010, NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducted separate but closely coordinated hurricane field campaigns, bringing to bear a combined seven aircraft with both new and mature observing technologies. NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment, the subject of this article, along with NOAA's Intensity Forecasting Experiment (IFEX) and NSF's Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) experiment, obtained unprecedented observations of the formation and intensification of tropical cyclones. The major goal of GRIP was to better understand the physical processes that control hurricane formation and intensity change, specifically the relative roles of environmental and inner-core processes. A key focus of GRIP was the application of new technologies to address this important scientific goal, including the first ever use of the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft for hurricane science operations. NASA and NOAA conducted coord... |
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