Early morning flight into Irene – Aug. 27, 2011
NOAA43 is scheduled to fly this morning into Irene as it makes landfall. Take off is at 0800Z (4AM). This is the last mission for NOAA aircraft into Irene. Below is the flight track.
Doppler radar quick-looks from 4 PM P-3 flight, 26 August 2011
As Irene’s intensity weakens as she moves northward off the east coast of Florida toward the Mid-Atlantic States NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within the inner core of Hurricane Irene sampled from […]
Doppler radar quick-looks from 4 AM P-3 flight, 26 August 2011
As Irene’s intensity weakens as she moves northward off the east coast of Florida toward the Mid-Atlantic States (outlined in black in top left of the images) NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds […]
Hurricane Field Program Update – Friday, August 26, 2011 04:52 PM EDT
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Friday, Aug 26, 2011 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission into Hurricane Irene. Takeoff will be at 2000 UTC from MacDill AFB/Tampa and landing in MacDill AFB/Tampa. Comments: NOAA42 already took off to fly a TDR mission into Irene. Saturday, Aug 27, 2011 NOAA-43: Scheduled for a tasked mission into Hurricane Irene. […]
Afternoon flights into Irene -Aug. 26, 2011
G-IV is scheduled to fly this afternoon with a 1730Z take off. The G-IV will sample the trough. NOAA42 will also fly a TDR mission later this afternoon, taking off at 2000Z. Below are the flight track for this afternoon flights.
Doppler radar quick-looks from 4 PM P-3 flight, 25 August 2011
As Irene’s intensity remains steady as she moves up off the east coast of Florida north of the Bahama Islands (outlined in black south of the storm) NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds […]
Early morning flights into Irene – Aug. 26, 2011
The G-IV is schedule to take off this morning at 0530 UTC to fly around Irene and sample the trough to its north-northeast. NOAA43 will take off this morning at 0800 UTC to fly a TDR mission into Irene. Below are the flight tracks.
Frank Marks talks to tech blogger Tekla Perry at IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/predicting-irene
Hurricane Field Program Update – Thursday, August 25, 2011 04:36 PM EDT
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission into Hurricane Irene. Takeoff will be at 2000 UTC from MacDill AFB/Tampa and landing in MacDill AFB/Tampa. Comments: NOAA42 will fly a TDR mission into Irene. Friday, Aug 26, 2011 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission into Hurricane Irene. Takeoff will be […]
Doppler radar quick-looks from 4AM P-3 flight, 25 August 2011
As Irene moves over the northern Bahama Islands northeast of Andros Island (outlined in black southwest of the storm) with little change in its intensity NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within the […]
