OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Tuesday, Aug 23, 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 took off at 1952 UTC. It will fly a TDR mission into Irene. Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission […]
The G-IV will fly again this afternoon around Irene. NOAA42 will is tasked to fly a TDR mission this afternoon. Below are the proposed flight tracks for the G-IV and P-3 mission.
The G-IV is also scheduled for a flight with a 0530Z take off on Tuesday (8/23). Below is the proposed flight track. The green dots along the track represent the dropsonde launch locations.
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s Tuesday, Aug 23, 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. Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 NOAA-42: Scheduled for a tasked mission into Hurricane Irene. Takeoff will be […]
The G-IV is scheduled for a synoptic surveillance mission tomorrow with a take-off time of 1730Z from MacDill AFB. The G-IV will fly around Tropical Storm Irene. Another mission is scheduled for tomorrow. An Air Force C130 will also flying around the same time and will be sampling the weakness in the ridge northwest of […]
We are following two Tropical Storms in the Atlantic: Harvey and Irene. H*Wind surface wind analysis are posted for both storms.
The 4 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/marks/Mon_Model_Meet/20110818.zip
As part of the NASA/FIU Hurricane and Remote Sensing Summer Education and Research Internship Program Dr. Zhang briefed FIU students from Prof. Haiyan Jiang’s class on ” Toward Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecast: the Operational Regional Model Perspective”. The presentation is available from the anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/xzhang/FIU-Seminar/Xuejin-FIU-Seminar-20110817.pptx
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0815/Fine-art-of-hurricane-tracking-Push-is-on-for-the-7-day-forecast
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 2011 (Shirley Murillo), and use of observations to improve understanding and forecasts of hurricanes (Dr. Robert Rogers). The three presentations are available in a zip […]
