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Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX) Status
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NASA's ER-2 and DC-8 -- two specially equipped aircraft -- are staying on the ground today, while weather researchers participating in the NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's hurricane study are busy planning a mission for Wednesday. Although the study's primary objective is to examine hurricanes -- possibly leading to increased hurricane warning time and decreased areas of evacuation -- it also will help validate measurements taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. Since there are no hurricanes brewing in the Atlantic, the NASA aircraft are scheduled to take off Wednesday at 2 p.m. EDT from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., to pursue the satellite measurement validation portion of the study. Launched in November 1997, the rainfall-measuring satellite is a joint NASA and Japanese Space Agency mission to measure rainfall 35 degrees above and below the equator. The hurricane study, called the Convection and Moisture Experiment, is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise to better understand the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment. The study unites eight NASA centers, other government weather researchers and the university community. |
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