The G-IV is scheduled for a synoptic surveillance mission today with a take-off time of 1730 UTC (1:30 local) to and from Barbados. The G-IV will fly around Tropical Storm Erika and will be sampling the upper level trough to northwest. Here is the proposed G-IV flight track. The dots along the flight track indicate the dropwindsonde launch locations.
OPERATIONS Thursday, 27 August 2015 UAS Global Hawk: Landed back in Wallops Island, VA this morning at 7:00AM Eastern after a 24 hour research mission over Tropical Storm Erika. This mission is part of NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) field campaign. NOAA43: Flew an EMC operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission in Erika. Take […]
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 a seven hour mission. This flight is operationally tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). EMC has requested this flight into Erika. The Doppler radar data collected during […]
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 2:00PM local time from Barbados and fly a six and a half hour mission. This flight is operationally tasked by NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). This means that EMC has requested this flight into Erika. The […]
The Global Hawk took off this morning from Wallops Island, VA at 7AM for its first flight of the Atlantic hurricane season. The Global Hawk is an uncrewed aircraft and it will fly for 24 hours over Tropical Storm Erika. The Global Hawk is part of NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) field campaign. […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 26 August 2015 NOAA43: Flew a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) research mission into Tropical Storm Erika. Take off was at 0600 UTC (2:00AM local) from Barbados. Three HRD scientists were on this flight. UAS Global Hawk: Took off this morning at 7:00AM Eastern from Wallops Island, VA. It will fly a 24 hour research mission over Tropical Storm Erika. This mission […]
NOAA’s P3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) into Tropical Storm Erika. The proposed flight track is shown below. The P3 will depart at 2:00AM local time from Barbados and fly a six hour research mission. The data collected from this flight will improve our understanding of how the dry air interacts with the storm. The flight track is shown […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft took off from Barbados at 2:00PM to fly a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX)/Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) research mission into Tropical Storm Erika. The flight track is shown below. The P3 will take measurements to understand how much dry air is interacting with Tropical Storm Erika. It will also collect data with the […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 25 August 2015 G-IV: Is currently flying a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) research mission around Tropical Storm Erika. Take off was around 1400 UTC (10:00AM local) from Barbados. No HRD scientists are on this flight. NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) research mission into Tropical Storm Erika. Take off is […]
NOAA’s G-IV hurricane hunter jet is preparing for a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) around Tropical Storm Erika. The proposed flight track is shown below. They will depart at 10:00AM local time from Barbados and fly an eight hour mission. The goal of this flight is to collect data around the Tropical Storm Erika and sample the dry air […]
