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Satellite Interview: 01-279

Attention: Early Morning Producer
Tues.–Thurs., Aug. 21–23
5:45 a.m.–9:15 a.m. EDT
10-minute windows — with B-roll

NASA hurricane hunters fly into storms on research mission; scientists to focus on rain amounts, dynamics and motion

• Researchers are flying into tropical storms on specially equipped NASA airplanes.
• Their mission is different from typical “hurricane hunters”, as they focus on how much rain comes out of the storms.
• Flying out of the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla., they use remote sensing instruments also to learn more about hurricane structure, dynamics and motion.
• The goal: Better hurricane modeling and forecasting to help decrease the size of coastal evacuations and increase warning time for those areas.
• Researchers fly in a DC-8 “flying laboratory” to gather, measure and analyze information during the Convection and Moisture Experiment -- CAMEX-IV.
• Their findings, combined with data from other sources, could improve our understanding of climate change and help save lives and property.

Talk to a NASA hurricane hunter about the research and what it takes to do it.

Who:	Hurricane Hunter CAMEX-IV
Satellite Windows:	10 minutes
Satellite Coordinates:	Telstar 6, Transponder 12 93 degrees west longitude, Frequency: 3940 MHz, audio: 6.2 or 6.8 MHz.
Satellite Interview Information: Jack Robertson (256) 544-1517	Story Information: Steve Roy, Media Relations (256) 544-0034

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