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Two Air Force Reserve WC-130J Weatherbird aircraft and a Naval Research Lab RP-3 Orion were deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam, in August to conduct a month-long meteorological research effort on tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific. During the project, labeled Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008, aircrews from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters, at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, worked with scientists from the US Office of Naval Research and the US Naval Research Laboratory to observe, understand, and predict the potential impacts of Pacific tropical cyclones. The research project is part of a nine-nation study. The WC-130J crew recorded weather data while the RP-3 crew collected data from its specialized Doppler radar to map the structure of the storms.
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