| Lead Scientist | Paul Chang (NESDIS) |
| GPS Dropsonde | Rob Rogers |
| HRD Workstation | Mike Black |
| Observer | Ray Zehr (CIRA) |
| Near real-time data | L. Connor(NESDIS) |
| IWRAP/USFMR | A.Zhang (NESDIS) D. Esteban (NESDIS) |
| PROPOSED tracks | ACTUAL tracks |
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Mission Briefing:
This mission was designed to collect data for the NESDIS ocean winds and rain experiment, collect data for CBLAST objectives, test/practice coordination between planes for future CBLAST missions, and test coordination for the high density 12 dropsonde experiment through the eyewall.
Mission Synopsis
The NOAA P-3 aircraft completed a shortened CBLAST/Ocean Winds mission this afternoon into Tropical Storm Hanna. Both planes left MacDill around noon EDT today. N43RF returned at 4:00 p.m. after a bird hit the plane and the nose radome suffer minor damage. N42RF returned at 4:30 PM after encountering problems with the IWRAP instruments.
Mission Data
Flight Data | ||
 Flight track detail |
 Temperature and Moisture |
 Wind and Atlitude |
 Flight track |
 Flight track ferry in |
 Flight track ferry out |
| TRACK DISTANCES | ||||||
| Drop # | LAT (d m) |
LON (d m) |
AZM (nm,°) |
LEG (nm) |
TOTAL (nm) |
TIME
(h:mm) |
| 0 | MACDILL | 0. | 0. | 0:00 | ||
| 1 | 28 18 | 87 43 | 100/90 | 295. | 295. | 1:13 |
| 2 | 28 18 | 90 30 | 156. | 451. | 1:52 | |
| 3 | 26 46 | 89 30 | 108. | 559. | 2:19 | |
| 4 | 28 18 | 89 30 | 0/ 0 | 92. | 650. | 2:42 |
| 5 | 29 18 | 89 30 | 60/ 0 | 60. | 710. | 2:57 |
| 6 | 28 59 | 88 43 | 60/45 | 48. | 758. | 3:09 |
| STEP DESCENT PATTERN | 2:00 | |||||
| 7 | MACDILL | 355. | 1114. | 6:38 | ||
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