Bradley W. Klotz

TL;DR: An update of the progress achieved as part of the NOAA Intensity Forecasting Experiment (IFEX) is provided in this article, with a brief summary of noteworthy aircraft missions flown in the years since 2005, the first year IFEX flights occurred, as well as a description of the research and development activities that directly address the three primary IFEX goals: 1) collect observations that span the tropical cyclone (TC) life cycle in a variety of environments for model initialization and evaluation; 2) develop and refine measurement strategies and technologies that provide improved real-time monitoring of TC intensity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified the wind speed bias over a broad range of operationally computed wind speeds and rain rates, based on a large sample of collocated SFMR wind retrievals and global positioning system dropwindsonde surface-adjusted wind speeds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified wind speed asymmetries in 35 hurricanes in terms of their amplitude and phase, based on aircraft observations from 128 individual flights between 1998 and 2011.

TL;DR: In this paper, global rain-corrected scatterometer winds are used to quantify and evaluate characteristics of tropical cyclone surface wind asymmetries using a modified version of a proven aircraft-based low-wavenumber analysis tool.

TL;DR: In 2018, NASA launched its second Earth observing laser altimeter in 2018 with mission objectives of studying the changes in our climate by monitoring global elevations, particularly in the polar regions as discussed by the authors.