The drone was launched by the NOAA WP-3D Orion nicknamed Kermit.
Extreme turbulence
Joe Cione, Lead Meteorologist for New Technologies at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory. Liccini and Sosa had the difficult task of helping to guide the ALTIUS-600 drone straight into the eye of Hurricane Ian to collect the necessary data“We managed to launch the drone and babysat it for a few minutes so it could get its bearings. And we did all that under conditions where we had just some very severe turbulence,” Cione said.
“The drone was in there and we were outside the winds while the drone was measuring what it could while we were safe and away from the most violent aspects of that storm,” Cione added.
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