OPERATIONS Monday, 24 August 2015 NOAA43: Flew an an NHC operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Danny. Take off was scheduled for 0600 UTC (2:00AM local) from Barbados. Three HRD scientists were on this flight. G-IV: No flights are scheduled at this time. Tuesday, 25 August 2015 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a Saharan Air Layer Experiment (SALEX) research mission around […]
NOAA’s P3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Danny this morning. This flight is tasked by the National Hurricane Center. The P3 will depart at 2:00AM local time from Barbados for their eight hour mission. This is the final flight in the series of flights that has been gathering data every 12 hours. […]
As Hurricane Danny continued to weaken to a tropical storm 450 nm 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 visible satellite imagery. Included […]
As Hurricane Danny weakened 600 nm 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. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line; G-IV: red line) superposed on the real-time lower fuselage radar and visible satellite imagery. Included […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft is flying a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Danny this afternoon. The P3 departed around 2:00PM local time from Barbados. This is the third flight in the series that is gathering data every 12 hours. The flight track is shown below. The Doppler radar data being collected during this mission […]
OPERATIONS Sunday, 23 August 2015 NOAA43: Is flying an operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission. This means that NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) is interested in collecting data and has requested this flight into Danny. Take off was around 0600 UTC (2:00AM local) from Barbados. Three HRD scientists are on this flight. G-IV: No flights are […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft is flying a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Danny this morning. The P3 departed around 2:00AM local time from Barbados for their eight hour mission. This is the second flight in the series of flights that is gathering data every 12 hours. The flight track is shown below. The dots on the […]
As Hurricane Danny intensified 800 nm 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 to collect upper ocean observations ahead of the storm. The aircraft flight track (yellow line) superposed on the real-time lower fuselage radar and visible satellite […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission into Hurricane Danny today. The P3 will depart at 2:00PM local time from Barbados and fly a seven hour mission. This is the first of a series of flights that will gather data every 12 hours. The proposed flight track is shown below. This type of […]
NOAA’s G-IV hurricane hunter jet is warming up their engines and preparing for their second flight around Hurricane Danny. The proposed flight track is shown below. They will depart at 1:30PM local time and fly an eight hour mission around Danny. The goal of this flight is to capture as much data as they can using the […]
