Mission Summary
20180708H1 Aircraft 42RF
Tropical Storm Chris (AL03)
Tail Doppler Radar

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderNate Kahn
Co-pilotRobert Mitchell
Co-pilotKevin Doremus
Flight EngineerJosh Sanchez
Flight EngineerChris Lalonde
NavigatorChris Sloan
NavigatorBrian Richards
Flight DirectorMike Holmes
System EngineerJoe Greene
Data TechnicianMike Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorJeff Hartberger

Scientific Crew (42RF)
LPSKelly RyanHRD
DropsondeBachir AnnaneHRD
RadarSim AbersonHRD
ObserverMiguel CortezHRD (NERTO)

Scientific Crew (Ground)
RadarJohn GamcheHRD


Proposed NOAA 42 track

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will conduct an EMC-tasked tail Doppler radar (TDR) mission into Tropical Storm Chris.

TDR MISSION PLAN: Chris
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
August 07, 2018
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 08/0830Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZM Time
deg min deg min n mi/deg hr:min
1S33 4876 30 105/2701:24
2S33 4872 18 105/0902:19
3S35 3374 24 105/0002:58
4S32 0374 24 105/1803:54
5S32 5973 25 70/1354:10
6S33 4873 00 70/0904:21
7S34 3873 24 70/0454:33
8S34 5874 24 70/0004:45
9S34 3875 24 70/3154:56
10S33 4875 48 70/2705:08
11S32 5975 23 70/2255:20
12S32 3874 24 70/1805:32

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 08:33 UTC Linder-Lakeland Airport, FL 16:50 UTC
Penetrations 2

Problems :


Mission Data :


Pass #1
Timeseries wind, pressure, SFMR wind and rain, temp plots

Pass #2
Timeseries wind, pressure, SFMR wind and rain, temp plots

Timeseries wind, SFMR wind, rain rate, altitude and pressure plots


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight track

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data | serial data
LPS log | Drop log


Page last updated Jul. 30, 2018
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