OPERATIONS Monday, September 15, 2014 NOAA43: Is tasked to fly a Model Evaluation Experiment. Take of time from St. Croix was around 8AM Eastern for an eight hour mission. Three HRD scientists will be on board. G-IV: Is tasked to fly a Model Evaluation Experiment. Take off time from St. Croix was around 9AM Eastern for this five hour flight. The […]
NOAA’s entire hurricane hunter fleet is flying into Hurricane Edouard today. The NOAA43 P3 took off this morning around 8AM from St. Croix and is headed into Edouard. The NOAA49 G-IV jet took off at 9AM also from St. Croix and will fly over Edouard. We can’t forget about the NOAA42 P3 aircraft. It will […]
On September 15, 1944, a major hurricane grazed the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and made landfall on New York’s Long Island. Most of it fury was spent out to sea where the death toll reached nearly 400 people lost on numerous ships including the USCG cutters Bedloe and Jackson , the lighthouse […]
OPERATIONS Sunday, September 14, 2014 NOAA42: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base to Bermuda. Take off is scheduled for 10AM Eastern. One HRD scientist will be on board. NOAA43: Is tasked to fly a NESDIS Ocean Winds mission. They took off around 8AM from St. Croix for a nine hour flight. No HRD scientists will be […]
OPERATIONS Saturday, September 13, 2014 No operations are scheduled for Saturday. Sunday, September 14, 2014 NOAA42: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base to Bermuda. Take off is scheduled for 10AM Eastern. One HRD scientist will be on board. NOAA43: Has been put on alert to fly a NESDIS Ocean Winds survey flight. This is a go […]
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OPERATIONS Friday, September 12, 2014 NOAA43: Is tasked to fly an Ocean Survey flight. Take off is scheduled for 10AM Eastern from St. Croix. The flight objectives are to collect oceanic data ahead of Tropical Storm Edouard. One HRD and one University of Miami/RSMAS scientist will be on board. Saturday, September 13, 2014 No operations are scheduled […]
One of NOAA’s P3 hurricane hunter aircraft, NOAA43, is getting ready to fly and collect data ahead of Tropical Storm Edouard. They will take off from the island of St. Criox at 10AM Eastern and launch ocean measuring expendable instruments such as (AXCPS, AXBTs and AXCTDs) to sample the ocean. Below is their proposed flight track. The dots on […]
OPERATIONS Thursday, September 11, 2014 NOAA43: Is tasked to fly a NESDIS Ocean Winds and Pre-storm Ocean Survey flight. Take off for this six hour mission will be at 11AM Eastern from St. Croix. The flight objectives are to collect IWRAP data in precipitation coincident with polar satellite overpasses, launch AXBT profiles in glider grid […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, September 10, 2014 NOAA43: Ferried to St. Croix from MacDill AFB with one HRD scientist on board. Thursday, September 11, 2014 NOAA43: Is scheduled to do an Ocean Survey Mission, departing from and returning to St. Croix, times TBA. One HRD scientist will be on board. ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest […]
