NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings
27 Jan 2026, 21:44 GMT
By Charles G. Hatfield
Topic: Airborne Science
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/airborne-science/nasa-science-flights-venture-to-improve-severe-winter-weather-warnings/
A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment, or NURTURE, is an airborne campaign that uses a suite of remote sensing instruments to collect atmospheric data on winter weather with a goal of improving the models