Seeing which way the wind blows: New doppler radar takes flight on this summer's HS3 mission
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
The autonomous and compact High-altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler, or HIWRAP, a dual-frequency conical-scanning Doppler radar, will hang under NASA's aircraft's belly as it flies above hurricanes to measure wind and rain and to test a new method for retrieving wind data.