Aircraft Commander | Pat Didier |
Co-pilot | Kevin Doremus |
Co-pilot | Robert Mitchell |
Flight Engineer | Chris Lelonde |
Flight Engineer | Ken Heystek |
Navigator | Pete Freeman |
Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
System Engineer | Terry Lynch |
Data Technician | Dana Naeher |
AVAPS | Joe Greene |
LPS | Gus Alaka | HRD |
Dropsonde | Jason Sippel | HRD |
Radar | Brittany Dahl | HRD |
LPS | Paul Chang | NESDIS |
Observer | Lucrezia Ricciadrudili | NESDIS |
Observer | Kevin Brewer | unk |
Observer | Greg Raymond | unk |
Observer | Zach Cress | unk |
Observer | Becky Lizana | unk |
Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190831H1 mission for Dorian |
Figure 2. Actial flight track for 20190831H1 mission for Dorian |
Mission Plan :
NOAA42 will conduct a TDR mission into Hurricane Dorian.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 08:53 UTC
| Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 16:07 UTC
| Penetrations
| 5
| Expendables
| 30 sondes
| |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division Aug. 31, 2019 12:15 PM EDT Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 31/0900Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD/AZMON | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | deg nm | hr:min | ||||
1S | 25 09 | 74 20 | 90/240 | 1:23 | |||
2S | 26 39 | 71 27 | 90/060 | 2:09 | |||
3S | 27 24 | 72 54 | 90/360 | 2:32 | |||
4S | 24 24 | 72 54 | 90/180 | 3:18 | |||
5S | 25 09 | 71 28 | 90/120 | 3:41 | |||
6S | 26 39 | 74 21 | 90/300 | 4:27 |
Mission Evaluation / Problems :
Flight level wind along track |
Flight level wind along track in storm |
SFMR wind along flight track |
SFMR wind along flight track in storm |
Altitude, Pressure, Rain Rate, and Wind |
LPS log | Radar log | Drop log Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data |