Weather drones used to research storms

Postdoctoral Scholar Nick Falk and graduate student Christine Neumaier spent six weeks on the Atlantic Ocean working with colleagues from University of Alabama in Huntsville looking for thunderstorms to measure cold pools, cool air that spreads out at earth’s surface underneath storms. Their research addresses how storms over the ocean form and develop. Surprisingly, they found no storms early on, while the ship was far from the equator, which is where oceanic thunderstorms are most common. Read their story and check out photos on SOURCE.

Experts Leah Grant, Falk and Russell Perkins also shared 10 details about working with weather drones in the field on SOURCE.