Hurricane Hunters Technology

When people go on flights they are aribrone attempts to collect data, at the time airplanes collected data or the waether since tracking devices didnt exist. Later on the United States started putting weather reconnssiance around the world, weather satelites started to come here in the 1960s. Huriicane hunters now exists, so they go and three parts of a hurricane, they see they eye, eyewall and the spiral rain bands, they cant go down that far so they drop a hurricane sensor that has a parchute and it collects data every second. In paragraph 6 it says, " In sepetmber 1961, Weather Bureau forcatsers watched a crude television image from an expiremental weather satelite that showed a hurricane heading towards the Texas coast." The system to find out the weather that is used to day and that was used back then, is the most important technology because we need to know the weather, its impotant to know these things, especially if a hurricane is coming on our

Hurricane hunters have special tools to find out about facts and information about hurricanes. One in particular is the dropsonde. The dropsonde is small, round, and has a tube shape with a parachute on top so the tool does not hit the ground to hard. To use this instrument, hurricane hunters drop the dropsonde into the hurricane’s eye (which is the middle of the hurricane) then it falls into the ocean and gathers information about the hurricane, when its done it radios information to the plane.

If anyone has ever wondered what it’s like to live through a hurricane regardless of its strength, I can personally tell you that Hurricane Ike was a monster of a storm to ever be faced in the 2008 Atlantic season; It was not only one of the costliest hurricanes in Texas, but also one of the most powerful.

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to almost lose a child during birth? Well on a cold, snowy January night at Floyd hospital, 15 years ago Brandy and Cory was blessed with a miracle, a sweet baby boy, his heart stopped three times during birth. Hunter was born at 11:57 p.m. on January 21, 2001, if he would have waited three more minutes he would have had a different birthday.

The mobile radar is driven into position in presence of storm that is being formed. As the storm is forming the radar is scanning the air. Dual polarization (dual-pol) radar was created by NOAA scientists that takes pictures that are two dimensional. This radar can do the because the radar sends out both horizontal and vertical electromagnetic waves. The dual-pol took around 20 years of development to complete.The dual-pol is used by the National-weather service to predict whether. Phased array radar scan the the sky for dangerous weather and see tornadoes within supercells and QLCS. The phased array radar also is used in the military to track aircrafts. QLCS stands for Quasi-linear Convection system. You could learn more about the QLCS in the next paragraph. The multifunction array radar is mostly used in the military to track aircrafts. All these radars are used to predict whether, but specifically tornadoes. Some sense the debris and some take two dimensional pictures. But all radars have one thing in common, all of them send out

A tropical wave developed into a tropical depression about 140 mi (230 km) east of the Yucatán Peninsula on August 17. Moving north-northwestward, the depression soon strengthened into a tropical storm. Early on August 18, the system crossed the Yucatán Channel and entered the Gulf of Mexico. While nearing the coast of Louisiana on August 19, the storm slowed down, turned westward, and intensified into a Category 1 hurricane. Late on August 19, the hurricane attained its maximum sustained wind speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). The cyclone curved west-northwestward and weakened slightly before making landfall near Crystal Beach, Texas, with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) around 13:00 UTC on August 21. At landfall, the barometric pressure fell to 992

Another tool that has recently been in use to monitor hurricanes is the NASA Global Hawk, which is an experimental unmanned aircraft that is used to test possible operational capabilities within a hurricane. Likewise, once a hurricane is projected to become a threat to land, the hurricane is immediately monitored by the U.S. Air Force, and NOAA hurricane aircraft, and land stations.

Researchers used his flights to determine that it was safe to do so, and then proceeded to develop this technology. "The devices fall to the ocean and transmit bursts of data to the aiplane twice every second," (Weather Reconnaisance, Paragraph 10). These sensors are the most advanced of their kind, because not only to they provide sufficient evidence to help protect civilians. They can also reveal whether or not a storm is getting stronger or weaker, and which direction it may be heading

Hurricanes have very fast winds. Hurricanes cam reach winds up to 200 mile per hour. For a tropical storm to become a hurricane it has to go about 74 miles per hour. Also because of the fast speeds of the hurricane it can cause lots of property damage.

Hurricanes and tornados are both atmospheric windstorms that occur naturally and have the potential power to cause massive devastations. Hurricanes and tornadoes are different phenomena in many aspects. Both are caused by some changes in atmospheric conditions such as air temperature, pressure wind speed. While a hurricane is a storm that is originated in oceans, cover large area and is associated with strong winds and heavy rains, a tornado is a rotating column of wind that is generated on land and moves in relatively small area(Hurricane vs. Tornado). This research will talk about the differences between hurricanes and tornadoes in various aspects. In particular, it will discuss how and where they form, when they happen, how strong they are, the devastation/losses they can cause to human and the country infrastructure.

The article, Weather Reconnaissance, the author provides the reader with many tools which had help aid in research and exploration. An example which the author gives is a weather satellite. Weather satellites have been circling the world since the 1960s and showed the amount of help it can do to help exploration. This piece of technology helped save many people's lives. The author states that the meteorologists have used this to track a hurricane which was going to hit the teas coast. They had calculated that the hurricane, Hurricane Carla, would land less than 100 miles west of Galveston. The meteorologists was able to warn over 350,000 residents of the Gulf Coast to evacuate the islands.

Do you recall watching TV, or listening to music, when a weather alert comes out? Hurricane hunters are the people who find and detect storms that can cause potential harm and damage. The dropsonde hurricane detector is an instrument they use to calculate the intensity, humidity, air pressure, and other factors essential to predict the outcome of the storm.

They track tropical storms and hurricanes and they warn citizens of danger. The NHC can measure where and how major the hurricane is gonna be. They are associated with the National oceanic and atmospheric administration. Scientist use satellites or planes to monitor the storm. Hurricanes are measured using the Saffir- Simpson Hurricane. There are 5 types of categories. The highest is a category 5 hurricane with 155 plus wind speeds and a surge storm of 18 plus feet. Even if a category 5 hurricane has stronger winds a category 3 hurricane can cause more

The most advanced technology for reaserchers and explorers today is the technology that is mentioned in "Search for Anicent Civalizations. The technolog yin the other articals is either not advanced enough or is dangerous for the reasercher or the explorer.In "Florida Waters Treasure Hunters" it was not much technology and really a someone doing a lot of reaserch and the technology that is mentioned only moves sand out of the way. In "Weather Reconnaissance" they did use alot of good technology but it was very dangerous which could get reaserchers of even explorers killed. While the technology in "Search for Ancient Civalization" is safe and the technology does most of the work fo them.

The third artifact to answer my question is a collage. The collage contains images and quotes about technology. During the creation of this collage I realized that technology isn’t just computers or smartphones. It’s anything that has been invented to make the tasks of life easier. Some of the most notable inventions pictured in the collage are: fire (the containment of), simple machines, the steel plow, the steam engine, the airplane, the light bulb, penicillin, the computer, and the internet (Baxter). The main point of the collage is that we increment technology over time, that we affect technology in a way that allows us to progress the abilities of humanity.