After two successful research missions on Saturday and Sunday, the crew of the NOAA P-3, which includes AOML/HRD scientists, are on their way inbound to Hurricane Florence to accomplish objectives related to the Hurricane Field Program – Intensity Forecast Experiment’s, “Mature Stage Experiment.” The goal is to collect observations from the Tail Doppler radar, dropsondes, […]
Sunday, September 9, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 is flying an HRD and NESDIS tasked research mission into Florence, that took off from Bermuda this morning at 08:00 AM EDT. 3 HRD scientists are on this mission. The P-3 is flying a butterfly pattern to measure the inner core. The goal is to collect wind data […]
Saturday, September 8, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 is flying an HRD and NESDIS tasked research mission into Tropical Storm Florence, that took off from Bermuda this morning at 08:00 AM EDT. 3 HRD scientists are on this mission. The P-3 flew a partial high-altitude circumnavigation around the eastern side of Florence, followed by a butterfly […]
Friday, September 7, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft is currently transiting to Bermuda with scientists from HRD aboard. They are positioning for upcoming research flights into Tropical Storm Florence. NOAA49: No flights are scheduled Saturday, September 8, 2018 NOAA42: HRD and NESDIS research-tasked mission into Tropical Storm Florence is expected to takeoff at […]
Read about the satellites at https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.3290.
Read the paper at https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.3256.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 will fly a National Hurricane Center tasked reconnaissance mission into Tropical Storm Gordon, takeoff from Lakeland, FL at 6:00 PM EDT. 4 HRD scientists will be on this mission. NOAA49: The G-IV will fly a synoptic surveillance mission, tasked by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC), around Hurricane […]
Monday, September 3, 2018 NOAA42: The P-3 will fly a NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) operationally tasked mission into Tropical Storm Gordon, takeoff from Lakeland, FL this afternoon at 4:30 PM EDT. 3 HRD scientists will be on this mission. The P-3 will fly a lawnmower pattern ahead of the storm, followed by a butterfly pattern […]
NOAA42: The NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) has tasked for possible operational missions into AL91, currently located north of Cuba. The first mission would take off from Lakeland, FL at 4:30 PM EDT tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 3, and be followed by a 4:30 AM EDT mission Tuesday morning. 3 HRD scientists will be on each mission. […]
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 4 G-IV and 4 P-3 missions into Central Pacific Hurricane Lane (19-23 August 2018) representing the first NOAA P-3 mission to fly a Central Pacific storm. The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Storm Overview (Jon Zawislak) Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview (Jon Zawislak) CPHC Feedback (Tom Birchard, […]
