Hurricane Field Program Update — Thursday, August 29, 2019, 5pm EDT
NOAA49 is currently conducting a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian, and NOAA42 just took off from Lakeland for another EMC-tasked mission in Dorian. Details on this flight can be found in yesterday’s update. NOAA49 will conduct another synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian, also Lakeland too Lakeland. Takeoff time will also be 0130 EDT […]
AOML/HRD Seminar – Evan Forde – 29 August 2019
Evan presented a seminar titled “Relationship between Tropical Cyclone Genesis in the Main Development Region and Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Atlantic Basin”. ABSTRACT Tropical Cyclone (TC) genesis in the Atlantic basin main development region (MDR) was evaluated from 1972-2015 to determine its relationship with seasonal TC activity. Among other findings, a strong correlation […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 7pm EDT
NOAA49 is currently conducting a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Dorian, and NOAA42 is in the midst of its next EMC-tasked mission into the storm. The only change is that NOAA 42 will be taking atmospheric observations when it flies over the NOAA Hurricane Underwater Gliders. Since it is the warm ocean water below Dorian […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 5pm EDT
NOAA49 is currently conducting a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Dorian, and NOAA42 is set to take off for its next EMC-tasked mission into the storm. Details on these missions can be found in yesterday’s update. After that, the aircraft will get busier, with multiple missions per day. First, NOAA49 is tasked for another […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Monday, August 26, 2019
NOAA42 is currently conducting an EMC-tasked mission into Tropical Storm Dorian. The aircraft took off from Lakeland this afternoon a little late, and will soon recover in St. Croix. Details of that mission can be found in yesterday’s update. NOAA42 will conduct a second EMC-tasked mission into Tropical Storm Dorian tomorrow. The aircraft will take […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Sunday, August 25, 2019
There will be an EMC-tasked mission into Tropical Storm Dorian Monday, takeoff from Lakeland, FL at 1400 EDT (1800Z), recovering in St. Croix about 8 hours later. The goal of the mission is to obtain data in the core to improve model forecasts. The proposed flight track is shown below. In addition, the National Hurricane […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Saturday, August 24, 2019
The National Hurricane Center has tasked NOAA49 for a synoptic surveillance mission around what is now Tropical Storm Dorian. The aircraft will depart Lakeland at 1730 UTC and recover in St. Croix about 8 h later, after circumnavigating the storm. The purpose of the mission is to obtain dropwindsonde and Doppler radar data to improve forecasts […]
Hurricane Field Program Update — Friday, August 23, 2019
The NESDIS Ocean Winds research team has tasked NOAA42 for a research mission into Tropical Storm Ivo in the East Pacific. The aircraft will depart North Island Naval Air Station at 8am Pacific Daylight time, and recover there eight hours later. No other missions are currently planned. For the latest information about tropical cyclones […]
50th Anniversary of Hurricane Debbie seeding
Hurricane Debbie’s eye as seen from ESSA DC-6 On August 18th and 20th, 1969, Hurricane Debbie was subjected to a seeding experiment as part of Project STORMFURY. STORMFURY was a joint Navy and Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA, the predecessor of NOAA) project to test the hypothesis that seeding hurricanes with silver iodide would disrupt […]
