NOAA’s highly instrumented aircraft from the Aircraft Operations Center play an integral role in hurricane forecasting. Data collected during hurricanes by these airborne meteorological platforms and from a variety of other sources are fed into numerical computer models to provide better forecasts of how intense a hurricane will be, and when and where it will make landfall. These data, from the aircraft, fulfill two important purposes: to help forecasters make accurate predictions during a… (flightaware.com) さらに...
NOAA AOC Plan of the Day for flights: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/reconlist.shtml
WP-3: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NOAA42
G-IV: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NOAA49