Convection and Moisture Experiment 4  Project Description
development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts
using NASA-funded aircraft and surface remote sensing
instrumentation. The primary aircraft used during CAMEX-4 are
the NASA DC-8 and ER-2 research airborne platforms. These
instrumented aircraft will fly over, through, and around
selected hurricanes as they approachlandfall United States. The
NASA aircraft will investigate upper altitude regions of the
hurricane not normally sampled. Where possible, measurements
will be compared and validated with coincident observations from
the QuikSCAT, Terra, and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
satellites. This study will yield high spatial and temporal
information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion. These
data, when analyzed within the context of more traditional
aircraft, satellite, and ground-based radar observations,should
provide additional insight to hurricane modelers and forecasters
who continually strive to improve hurricane pre