Abstract: Following the passage of hurricane Betsy (1965) through the Gulf of Mexico two flights were made five days apart aboard a research aircraft to collect sea-surface temperatures with an infrared radiometer. The purpose was ...

Abstract: The feasibility and preliminary testing of a low cost, remote-sensing air-borne, double bolometer technique for inferring atmospheric water vapor is illustrated. To deduce the water vapor profile with commercially available ...

Abstract: On June 16, 1966, an experiment was performed off the east coast of Florida that involved two research aircraft, one from the Naval Oceanographic Office and one from ESSA's Research Flight Facility, and the USCGSS Peirce, ...

Abstract: Specially instrumented aircraft of the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF) have supported environmental research efforts for more than a decade. In 1969 the RFF participated ...

Abstract: Analysis of the frequency response of the input parameters of a gust probe system, which measures the turbulent flow of air, is presented. The results show that the system is very sensitive to noise created by aircraft ...