NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems

UAS Publications

Global Observing Network

A Global Profiling System for Improved Weather and Climate Prediction. Alexander E. MacDonald, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2005 (external link)

From the Archive -The Global Hawk Tropical Tropopause Experiment (GHATTEX): Exploring the tropical tropopause region of the Pacific Ocean with the Global Hawk UAV platform (.pdf)

 

For a description of Global Hawk and the GHATTEX proposal please see:

"Global Hawk - A New Tool for Airborne Remote Sensing by Greg Loegering of Northrop Grumman Corporation, San Diego, CA as presented at AIAA's 1st Technical Conference and Workshop on Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles 20-23 May 2002, Portsmouth, Virginia

See: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Publications and Papers: AIAA 2002-3458 at http://www.aiaa.org/
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Altair Unmanned Aircraft System Achieves Demonstration Goals - An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2006, American Geophysical Union: David W. Fahey, James H. Churnside, James W. Elkins, Albin J. Gasiewski, Karen H. Rosenlof, Sara Summers, Michael Aslaksen, Todd A. Jacobs, Jon D. Sellars, Christopher D. Jennison, Lawrence C. Freudinger, and Michael Cooper, (2006), Altair Unmanned Aircraft System Achieves Demonstration Goals, EOS Trans. AGU Vol.87,  No. 20, pp197 & 201.

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