OPERATIONS Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 NOAA-42: Is currently flying in Tropical Storm Isaac. This flight took of around 2000 UTC from Barbados and will land in Barbados. Comments: NOAA42 is flying a P-3 TDR mission. Three HRD scientists will be on this flight. Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly around Tropical Storm Isaac. Take off […]
NOAA42 is currently flying a TDR mission Tropical Storm Isaac. Here is their flight track. They took-off from Barbados and will land back in Barbados.
Two HRD and Aircraft Operations Center crews are beginning flights at 4pm EDT today into Isaac. You can see realtime tweets during the missions at http://twitter.com/HRD_AOML_NOAA
OPERATIONS NOAA-P-3s Tuesday, Aug 21, 2012 NOAA-42: Will ferry from MacDill to Barbados. The scheduled take-off is 14 UTC (10AM). No HRD scientists will be on this flight. Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission for AL94. Takeoff will be at 2000 UTC from Barbados and landing in Barbados. Comments: NOAA42 will fly […]
HRD scientists Peter Dodge, John Gamache, Frank Marks, and several NOAA colleagues from the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), National Weather Service (NWS), and the Office of Acquisition and Grants were among the recipients of the 2012 NOAA Administrators Award “For outstanding management of the G-IV Tail Doppler Radar project, enhancing NOAA’s weather forecasting and research capability”.
As part of the NASA/FIU Hurricane and Remote Sensing Summer Education and Research Internship Program HRD scientists briefed FIU students from Prof. Haiyan Jiang’s class on HFIP (Dr. Frank Marks), IFEX 2012 (Shirley Murillo), and use of observations to improve understanding and forecasts of hurricanes (Dr. Robert Rogers). The three presentations are available in a zip […]
Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX) Field Program Director Shirley Murillo and HRD Director Frank Marks briefed the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) personnel on HFIP progress and IFEX plans for 2012. The presentations are available in a .zip archive on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2012/AOC_brief_20120815.zip
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/50535
The 2 presentations from August’s Modeling meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2012/modeling/20120816.zip
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3: Today, Thursday, August 16, 2012 NOAA42 currently flying over the Gulf of America to sample a warm ocean eddy and a cold region just northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula that is of research interest. NOAA42 will drop ocean measuring expendable instruments such as (AXCPS, AXBTs and AXCTDs) to sample the ocean. Here’s today’s […]
