The NOAA43 P3 aircraft will fly into Tropical Storm Cristobal this afternoon. Take off is scheduled for 2PM Eastern. Below is the proposed flight track. The dots on the flight track (shown in green) represent the aircraft turn points. The red dots in the figure show the locations that launch weather balloons twice a day while the purple […]
The G-IV jet is scheduled to fly around Tropical Storm Cristobal this afternoon. Take off is scheduled for 1:30PM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base. Below is the proposed flight track. The goal of this flight is to capture as much data as they can using the tail Doppler radar onboard. The dots on the flight […]
OPERATIONS Sunday, August 24, 2014 NOAA42: Is tasked to fly a Tail Doppler Radar mission into Tropical Storm Cristobal. Take off was around 2AM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base. Three HRD scientists are onboard. G-IV: Will fly a Tail Doppler Radar research mission around Tropical Storm Cristobal. Take off is scheduled for 1:30PM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base. No HRD […]
NOAA42 P3 will take off at 2AM to fly into Tropical Depression Four. This flight follows yesterday’s 2PM NOAA43 P3 flight. We fly these missions twelve hours apart to measure how the system changes through time. Below is the proposed flight track. The dots on the flight track (shown in green) represent the aircraft turn points. The red dots […]
One of NOAA’s P3 aircraft (NOAA43) is set to fly today to collect data in the disturbance that is located north of the island of Hispaniola. They will take off at 2PM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base to fly an eight hour mission. Below is the proposed flight track. The dots on the flight track (shown […]
OPERATIONS Saturday, August 23, 2014 NOAA43: Is tasked to fly a Tail Doppler Radar mission into AL96 -the disturbance currently located north of the island of Hispaniola. Take off is scheduled for 2PM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base. Three HRD scientists will be onboard. Sunday, August 24, 2014 NOAA42: Is tasked to fly a Tail Doppler Radar mission into AL96. Take […]
OPERATIONS Friday, August 22, 2014 None Saturday, August 23, 2014 NOAA43: Is tasked to fly a Tail Doppler Radar mission into AL96 -the disturbance currently located north of the US Virgin Islands. Take off is scheduled for 2PM Eastern from MacDill Air Force Base. Three HRD scientists will be onboard. Sunday, August 24, 2014 NOAA42: Is tasked to fly […]
The full article can be accessed at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08/19/airborne-phased-array-radar-could-spur-a-quantum-leap-in-hurricane-forecasts/.
Hurricane Debbie’s eye as seen from ESSA DC-6 On August 18th and 20th, 1969 Hurricane Debbie was subjected to a seeding experiment as part of Project STORMFURY. STORMFURY was a joint Navy and Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA was the predecessor of NOAA) project to test the hypothesis that seeding hurricanes with silver iodide would […]
As Bertha weakened back to a tropical storm while passing southeast of Cape Hatteras, NC a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Bertha sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 aircraft […]
