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The historical objective of the NOAA Hurricane Field Program was the
collection of data required to support analytical and theoretical tropical cyclone
studies designed to improve the understanding of storm structure and behaviour.
Whereas the P-3s initially provided storm location and intensity information,
the gradual increase in the amount of aircraft data transmitted to the ground
led to wider support of operations (Burpee et al., 1994). Future aircraft observing
efforts into tropical cyclones will be geared toward improving track, intensity,
and rainfall forecasts by providing these data in order to improve current
operational numerical modelling systems and develop new ones, and to
understand intensity change and rainfall processes during the entire storm life
cycle. This data collection is part of the development of modelling systems,
and involves research into data assimilation, understanding and parameterization
of physical processes, and model evaluation and validation with comprehensive
datasets collected by airborne platforms.
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