As Tropical Storm Erika was 600 km east of the Leeward Islands a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance and a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) mission. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line) superposed on the real-time lower fuselage radar and infrared […]
As Tropical Storm Erika was 800 km east of the Leeward Islands a NOAA P-3 and G-IV mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance and a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) mission. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line; G-IV: red line) superposed on the real-time […]
As Tropical Storm Danny continued to weaken just east of the Leeward Islands (see the black lines outlining the islands) a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line) superposed on real-time lower fuselage radar and visible […]
As Tropical Storm Danny continued to weaken 300 km east of the Leeward Islands a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line) superposed on real-time lower fuselage radar and infrared satellite imagery. Included here you see […]
OPERATIONS Saturday, 29 August 2015 UAS Global Hawk: Is scheduled to fly over Tropical Storm Erika. It took off around 1100 UTC (7:00AM Eastern) from Wallops Island, VA. It will fly a 24 hour research mission over the storm. This mission is part of NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) field campaign. NOAA43 and G-IV: […]
The unmanned aircraft, Global Hawk took off early this morning from Wallops Island, VA and is a heading to fly over Erika. It will collect data over the storm for 24 hours. The Global Hawk is part of NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) field campaign. It will launch dropwindsondes as well as gather data […]
The G-IV is scheduled to fly a synoptic surveillance mission today with a take-off time of 1730 UTC (1:30 local) from Barbados. It will land in MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL after their eight hour mission. The jet will fly around Tropical Storm Erika and will be sample the upper level trough to northwest. The data collected from […]
OPERATIONS Friday, 28 August 2015 UAS Global Hawk: Was scheduled to fly over Tropical Storm Erika this morning. This flight has been pushed back to take off on Saturday. NOAA43: Flew an EMC operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Erika. This means that NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) is interested in collecting data and has requested this […]
Early on the morning of August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana delta region and the Mississippi coast. The storm surge brought enormous damage to the Gulf Coast and, when the levees around New Orleans failed, a great number of fatalities. Coming amidst the very busy 2005 hurricane season, Katrina brought death […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) operational mission into Tropical Storm Erika. The P3 will depart at 2:00AM local time from Barbados and fly an eight hour mission that will land in MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, FL. This flight is operationally tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). EMC has requested this […]
