As Earl continues intensification to a major hurricane and passes just north of Puerto Rico (visible outlined in black at the bottom 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 will see images of the horizontal winds within […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s NOAA-42: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 is a down day. NOAA-42: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, NOAA-42 is scheduled to fly an IFEX Rapid Intensification and 3D Doppler mission in Hurricane Earl. Take-off from Barbados at 4 AM AST (0800 UTC). This mission will recover at MacDill AFB/Tampa. NOAA-43: Tuesday is a down day. […]
IFEX The P-3’s will have a down day tomorrow, Tuesday, August 31. The next P-3 mission (N42RF) will depart Barbados at 08 UTC Wednesday, Sept. 1. It will fly a mission into Hurricane Earl from Barbados enroute to Tampa. The other P-3 (N43RF) will depart Barbados at 20 UTC Sept. 1, also flying a […]
Tri-agency mission summary for Sunday August 29 IFEX The G-IV flew into Hurricane Earl on Sunday, August 29, with a 1730 UTC takeoff, returning to Barbados. The two P-3 aircraft flew from Barbados into Hurricane Earl on Sunday at 0800 and 2000 UTC, respectively. The G-IV will fly a research mission on Monday, August 30. […]
As Earl continues intensification to a major hurricane and passes just north of the Leeward Islands (Guadalupe is visible outlined in black at the very bottom right 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 will see images of […]
As Earl continues intensified to a hurricane and threatens the Leeward Islands (Guadalupe is visible outlined in black near the bottom 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 will see images of the horizontal winds within the inner […]
Attached please find the forecast discussion for August 29, 2010. TriAgencyForecastAugust29
As Earl continues to get better organized NOAA P-3 missions continue to collect airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you will see images of the horizontal winds within the inner core of T.S. Earl sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 on 29 August 2010. […]
H*Wind surface wind analyses for Hurricane Earl are available at http://tinyurl.com/3yxfwel
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3s NOAA-42: N42’s first flight flight into T.S. Earl commenced at 0800 UTC Sunday August 29, with subsequent flights every 12 hrs. NOAA 43: N43 returned to Barbados from its mission into Earl at ~11:20 PM EDT Saturday, August 28. P-3 flights will repeat at 12-hr intervals through the N43 flight at 2000 […]
