Up, Up and Over Nadine

NASA Global Hawk AV6 
HS3 Mission
by Sci5HS

We have been following the Global Hawk missions from NASA Wallops. These flights are collecting data about hurricanes and tropical storms. Data is collected by drop sondes, and the planes as they fly above the storms at 60,000 feet.

NASA Global Hawk

We have been chatting with Global Hawk scientists, asking them questions about the airplane, the data, the drop sondes, and the hurricanes themselves. We're now trying to figure out how tropical storms and hurricanes get started. We think it has something to do with warm sea surface temperatures, evaporation, cold air temperatures. We think this somehow links to wind speeds. We are now trying to design a lab to test this hypothesis.

Lawn Mower flight path (top)
Wind Speeds (green)
Latitude (red)
Tropical Storm Nadine AV6 Flight