OPERATIONS Monday, 8 Aug 2016 NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly a Doppler Wind Lidar/Coyote research mission. The goals of this mission is to gather data with the Doppler Wind Lidar instrument and to launch the Unmanned aircraft – the Coyote to collect data in Tropical Storm Javier. Take off is scheduled for 1800 UTC (1PM […]
OPERATIONS Sunday, 7 Aug 2016 NOAA43: Will ferry to Harlingen, TX for possible flights in the East Pacific into Tropical Depression 11. Take off is scheduled for 3PM Eastern. No HRDers will be on this flight. Monday, 8 Aug 2016 G-IV: Will possibly ferry to Harlingen, TX from MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL for possible flights in […]
Engines are on as the NOAA43 aircraft is set off to fly its third and final mission into Earl. They will take off at 2:00PM eastern from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL for an eight hour mission. This is an operationally tasked mission by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center(EMC). The data collected from the aircraft will […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 3 Aug 2016 NOAA43: Flew an operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission. This means that NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) was interested in collecting data and has requested this flight into Earl. Take off was from 0600 UTC (2:00AM local) from MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL for this eight hour mission. Four HRD scientists were on […]
NOAA43 is getting ready for its second flight into Earl. The hurricane hunter aircraft will take off at 2:00AM eastern from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL for an eight hour mission. This is an operational tasked mission by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). EMC is responsible for running NOAA’s weather forecast models. They are […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft is in the air and on its way to fly into Tropical Storm Earl. The NOA43 aircraft departed at 2:00PM eastern from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL for an eight hour mission. The science mission is to gather data on the genesis of Earl and also collect data with the Doppler […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 2 Aug 2016 G-IV: No flights are scheduled for the jet. NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly a research mission into AL97 – the tropical wave currently located south of the island of Jamaica. The science objective of this mission is to gather data on the genesis of AL97 and also collect data with the Doppler Wind Lidar instrument. Take off […]
HRD’s Jason Dunion and Rob Rogers discuss trying to improve forecasting of hurricane rapid intensification in a Charleston Post and Courier article. http://www.charlestonscene.com/20160730/160739962/hurricane-predictions-getting-hotter
James ‘Doc’ McFadden, Programs and Projects director for NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), has been nominated for the People’s Choice Award of the Partnership for Public Service organization. The Partnership for Public Service is a “nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that believes good government starts with good people.” It offers annual Samuel J. Heyman Service to America […]
Ms. Ko presented a seminar on “An Investigation of the Cyclogenesis Forecast Ability of the HWRF Model by Invoking the GFDL Vortex Tracker”. ABSTRACT: The purpose of this project is to validate the capability of the HWRF basin-scale model to predict cyclogenesis events using the GFDL vortex tracker. To accomplish this, the data generated by […]
