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Aircraft Reconnaissance
Aircraft Recon
National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Aircraft Reconnaissance Page
This page includes planned missions to investigate disturbed weather and storms. It also contains the latest raw recon data.
Reconnaissance Flight Plan: For Today | For Tomorrow (How to Read)
Chapter 5 and Appendix G of the National Hurricane Operations Plan can be read for an understanding of how our site's recon decoder works.
In addition to our site's vortex decoder, you can also find one at flhurricane.com. That site's older decoder can also decode the older supplementary vortex message which is no longer used.
Here is a really good paper about the estimated reduction factors that can help estimate the surface winds in storms based on flight level winds:
GPS Dropwindsonde Wind Profiles in Hurricanes and Their Operational Implications
Raw recon data from the NHC:
Reconnaissance Data Archive | FTP server (warning, it's a long page that takes a lot of time to load)
Learn about the Air Force and NOAA Hurricane Hunters by visiting their sites:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/hunters.shtml
On Facebook: Air Force Hurricane Hunters | NOAA Hurricane Hunters
Hurricane Data from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD)
NOAA's HRD contains additional information for NOAA recon.
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