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High Altitude UAV for Monitoring Meteorological Parameters
An issued NASA patent from the Technology Transfer catalog.
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Overview
Acoustical studies of atmospheric events like convective storms, tornadoes, shear-induced turbulence, microbursts, acoustic gravity waves and hurricanes over the last fifty years have established that these events are strong emitters of infrasound. Current methods to forecast near term weather phenomenon is EM based radar and data from radiosondes. Radar is an active remote sensor which has limited range and there is the possibility that radar beams will overshoot the mesocyclonic circulation. There is also a possibility that mesocyclonic circulation cannot be detected because of the conal region immediately above the radar set.