Above: A platform designed to stabilize a large Doppler lidar as it operates inside an airplane flying through a hurricane. You wouldn’t dream of flying through a hurricane, would you? Yet NOAA has ...

The NOAA Gulfstream IV features a GPS dropwindsonde, a tube-shaped instrument released from the bottom of the aircraft. This ...

two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found around wildfires, in complex terrain or near the coast. The system will be able to scan the lidar beam upward or downward ...