As Hurricane Arthur passed southeast of Long Island, NY (the New England coast is visible as black line in the upper portion of the images) a G-IV 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 Arthur […]
As Hurricane Arthur approached landfall just south of Wilmington, NC (the North Carolina coast is visible as black line in the upper portion of the images) a NOAA P-3 and a G-IV mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within […]
As Hurricane Arthur continued to intensify just east of Savannah, GA (the South Carolina coast is visible as black line in the upper left of the images) 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 […]
As Tropical Storm Arthur continued to intensify just east of Jacksonville, Florida (the Florida coast is visible as black line in the left of the images) 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 […]
As Tropical Storm Arthur developed just east of Cape Canaveral, Florida (the Florida coast is visible as black line in the left of the images) 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 Arthur […]
NOAA’s G-IV jet will fly it’s fourth mission out of Hawaii today. It will fly around Hurricane Julio. This will be the last flight of the series. Below is the proposed flight track. The G-IV will take off at 1730 UTC (1:30 PM Eastern or 7:30 AM Hawaii) from Honolulu, HI. The dots on the track represent […]
OPERATIONS Friday, August 7, 2014 G-IV: Is tasked to fly a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Julio in the Pacific Ocean. Take off is scheduled for 1730 UTC (1:30 Eastern or 7:30AM Hawaii) from Honolulu, HI. ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest information about tropical cyclones and other weather systems, please visit the NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center web site at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov To […]
You can see the entire article and some photographs and videos at http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/07/interview_with_rookie_hurricane_hunter_joseph_patton.html
Typhoon Morakot on NASA’s MODIS satellite On August 7, 2009 Typhoon Morakot made landfall on Taiwan as an 80 kt (140 km/hr) typhoon. Although a minimal wind storm, Morakot brought torrential rains to the Philippines, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea, and Japan. As it slowed to a crawl over Taiwan its peak rainfall value was 120 […]
NOAA’s G-IV jet will fly it’s third mission out of Hawaii today. This time it will gather atmospheric data around two hurricanes, Iselle and Julio. Below is the proposed flight track. The G-IV will take off at 1730 UTC (1:30 PM Eastern or 7:30 AM Hawaii) from Honolulu, HI. The dots on the track represent the GPS […]
