HS3

Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel

past Mission

Type

Airborne Science

Airborne Campaigns

2012-2014

Target

Earth

Objective

Study hurricane formation

HS3 was a five-year mission specifically targeted to investigate the processes that underlie hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic Ocean basin.

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