Mission Summary
20021002I Aircraft 43RF
Air/sea in-storm mission into of Hurricane Lili

Scientific Crew (43RF)
Lead scientistNick Shay (RSMAS)
Radar scientistMike Black
AXBT scientistsJoe Cione
SRA scientistEd Walsh (NASA)
AXBT scientistTom Cook (RSMAS)
AXBT scientistScott Guhin (RSMAS)


Mission Briefing:

NOAA N43RF flew an Air/sea interaction in-storm experiment into Hurricane Lili. It departed MacDill AFB at 10 PM of Oct. 1 and recovered at MacDill AFB at 7:30 AM of Oct. 2.


Mission Synopsis


Mission Data

One minute listing

Flight Data


Flight track detail

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight track

PDF plots of dropsonde data


Lili
PLANNED mission drops
Aircraft: N43RF
Takeoff: 02/0200Z
Landed: 02/1030Z
DROP LOCATIONS
Drop # LAT
(d m)
LON
(d m)
TIME
(h:mm)
124 4784 190:52
224 3084 471:00
324 2285 001:04
424 1485 121:07
524 0585 241:11
623 5885 361:14
723 4985 481:18
823 4286 001:21
923 3386 121:25
1023 2686 241:28
1123 1786 361:32
1223 1086 481:35
1323 0187 001:39
1422 5487 121:42
1522 4587 241:46
1622 3787 361:49
1722 3087 481:53
1822 1187 172:02
1921 5286 462:10
2021 3486 152:19
2121 48 86 15 2:23
22 22 03 86 15 2:27
23 22 18 86 15 2:30
24 22 33 86 15 2:34
25 22 47 86 15 2:38
26 23 02 86 15 2:41
27 23 17 86 15 2:45
28 23 31 86 15 2:49
29 23 46 86 15 2:52
30 24 01 86 15 2:56
31 24 16 86 15 3:00
32 24 30 86 15 3:03
33 24 45 86 15 3:07
34 25 00 86 15 3:11
35 25 15 86 15 3:14
36 24 56 86 46 3:23
37 24 37 87 18 3:32
38 24 18 87 50 3:41
39 24 11 87 38 3:45
40 24 04 87 25 3:48
41 23 56 87 12 3:52
42 23 49 86 59 3:56
43 23 42 86 46 3:59
44 23 35 86 33 4:03
45 23 27 86 21 4:06
46 23 20 86 08 4:10
47 23 13 85 55 4:13
48 23 06 85 42 4:17
49 22 58 85 29 4:21
50 22 51 85 16 4:24
51 22 44 85 04 4:28
52 22 37 84 51 4:31
53 22 30 84 38 4:35


Lili
PLANNED mission turns
Aircraft: N43RF
Takeoff: 02/0200Z
Landing: 02/1030Z
TRACK DISTANCES
Drop # LAT
(d m)
LON
(d m)
LEG
(nm)
TOTAL
(nm)
TIME
(h:mm)
0MACDILL0.0.0:00
124 4884 19210.210.0:52
224 3084 4833.242.1:00
322 3087 49211.453.1:53
421 3486 15106.559.2:19
525 1586 15221.780.3:14
624 1987 51107.887.3:41
722 3084 38214.1101.4:35
8MACDILL343.1444.6:01
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