Mission Summary
20140804I1 Aircraft 43RF
TDR Tropical Storm Bertha

Aircraft Crew (43RF)
Aircraft Commander Harris Halverson
Co-pilotMark Sweeney
Co-pilotPat Didier
NavigatorPete Siegel
Flight EngineerPaul Darby
Flight EngineerJoe Klippel
Flight DirectorRich Henning
System EngineerJim Roles
Data TechnicianSteven Paul
Data TechnicianDana Naeher
AVAPSJeff Smith

Scientific Crew (43RF)
LPSLisa Bucci (HRD)
Dropsondes/AXBTJun Zhang (HRD)
RadarSim Aberson (HRD)
GuestNaomi Mizoguchi (Cineminga)
GuestJonathan Baudoin (Cineminga)

Mission Plan :


Proposed track

The mission is to conduct an EMC-tasked TDR pattern in Tropical Storm Bertha.

Mission Summary :


Final track

Take off Landing
Ft. Lauderdale, FL06:22 UTC Ft. Lauderdale, FL14:09 UTC

25 dropsondes deployed with 24 transmitted. 10 AXBTs were deployed, but one was bad so only 9 transmitted.

Mission Evaluation:

Problems :

Mission Data :

NetCDF | One second data | Flight Director's manifest


Flight track
Temperature and Moisture
Wind and Atlitude

Flight track detail

Page last updated March 24, 2015
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