The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins today, and HRD has released its annual Field Program Plan in suppler of the Intensity Forecasting EXperiment (IFEX). IFEX has been developed in partnership with NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center and the National Hurricane Center. Its goal is to better our understanding and prediction of hurricane intensity change by collecting observations that will aid in the improvement of current operational hurricane models, and the development of the next-generation operational hurricane model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System. Observations also will be collected for NESDIS’ Ocean Winds Experiment in a variety of tropical wind regimes as ‘ground truth’ for remote sensing equipment.