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

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 ...

Above: An aircraft-mounted, two-axis scanner for a Doppler lidar to study complex wind patterns found ... This improvement allows NOAA to expand their research and development.