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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nView of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, as seen from NOAA WP-3D Orion hurricane hunter aircraft before the storm made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast.<\/em><\/p>\n Image credit: NOAA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n NASA<\/b> and NOAA<\/b> are using GPS to better forecast the ferocity of hurricane and tropical cyclone winds. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tags: NASA, NOAA, GPS Publication: CBSnews.com Publication Date: 07\/22\/2013 View of the eyewall of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, as seen from NOAA WP-3D Orion hurricane hunter aircraft before the storm made landfall on the United States Gulf Coast. Image credit: NOAA NASA and NOAA are using GPS to better forecast the ferocity of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe GPS method is used to fill in the gaps of current measurement methods, particularly flying piloted aircrafts into the storm. Currently, the planes drop an expensive dropsonde (a 16-inch tube full of temperature, pressure and humidity measuring instruments attached to a parachute) into the storm. The relatively low cost of the GPS method allows meteorologists to run the model non-stop, thus providing more data to the modeling systems. However, NOAA and NASA do not intend to replace dropsondes with GPS, because of the accuracy dropsondes provide.
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\nIn 2016, NASA plans to launch a series of micro-satellites with GPS signals to continuously monitor global ocean surface wind speeds. The system is known as the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\")
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