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The hardest thing to predict about hurricanes right is, how to

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untangle the puzzle, of exactly what determines it is a tough one.

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But we have a whole bunch of new tools now. It’s called the Scanning-

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HIS, and that stands for Scanning as it does

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cross-tract scanning in order to give aerial coverage.

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High-Resolution is the H, its high spectral resolution,

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which gives you High-Resolution coverage of the

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infrared emitted spectrum. Interferometer is the I,

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and that explains the type of instrument that’s used to give the

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high spectral resolution coverage and it’s a

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Sounder which means from that you can derive vertical

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profiles of the quantities. With this aircraft that can

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fly for twenty-four hours we can really get the time coverage

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of what’s going on with the storm much better than we’ve been able to

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do. In fact we’ll be measuring the temperature structure of

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the upper area around the storm, also

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the water vapor properties of the outflow of the storm,

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and the cloud structures. So it’s a

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combination of being able to do it in more spatial detail

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and get temporal changes that you can’t do from a spacecraft.

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Learning little pieces of the puzzle all add up to being able

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able to do better forecasting in the future. It’s something that

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we’ve studied for many, many, years now, for decades

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is how to make measurements like this and to see them

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being used is very rewarding, especially interesting to see

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our community leading in this area that’s going to turn into

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benefits for society.

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