OPERATIONS Thursday, 5, Oct. 2017 NOAA42: The P3 is tasked to perform a pre-storm ocean survey mission in the Gulf of America. Take off was at 10:00 AM ET (1400 UTC) from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, FL. One HRD scientist will be on this flight. G-IV: The jet is tasked by NHC to fly […]
NOAA’s P3 aircraft is up in the air and headed to fly over the Gulf of America. This flight took off from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland, FL at 10 AM ET (1400 UTC). The goal of this flight is to gather oceanic data. The ocean plays a role in the development of tropical cyclones. NOAA42 […]
On September 14, 1982, NOAA42 flew the first Synoptic Flow Experiment around Hurricane Debby. The idea behind the experiment was to fly a large-scale pattern around a hurricane while releasing dropwindsondes at regular intervals. This would create a three-dimensional map of the winds steering the storm. The data would be entered into hurricane track forecast […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 4, Oct. 2017 NOAA42: No flights are scheduled at this time. G-IV: No flights are scheduled at this time. Thursday, 5, Oct. 2017 NOAA42: The P3 is tasked to perform a pre-storm ocean survey mission in the Gulf of America. Take off is scheduled for 10:00 AM ET (1400 UTC) from Lakeland Linder Regional […]
On the morning of October 3, 2002, Hurricane Lili made landfall on the Louisiana coast, just seven days after Hurricane Isidore had struck the same area. Lili had already ravaged Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba and was to bring further grief to Louisiana and Mississippi. Lili began as a African easterly wave moving into the […]
On September 28, 1837, the Royal Navy vessel HMS Racer had an encounter with a strong hurricane in the northwest Caribbean Sea. The storm would continue on a path over the Yucatan, Mexico, Texas, and the southeastern United States, leaving destruction in its wake. While its origins are unknown, the storm may have been […]
The meeting was held 26-27 September at the National Space Science and Technology Center Bud Cramer Research Hall in Huntsville, AL. The purpose of the working group is to establish science user input in the planning, development, and operations of the GHRC and to represent the science user communities in reviewing and guiding the GHRC activities and development. […]
On 21 September 2017, AOML/HRD scientist Rob Rogers attended and presented at the Workshop on Frontiers of Tropical Meteorology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Rogers was part of a US delegation of scientists who attended and presented their research work to a group of students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and […]
African easterly waves (AEWs) are areas of low air pressure that move westward across North Africa and into the Atlantic Ocean. AEWs can cause intense thunderstorms, and, once over the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean, they may become tropical cyclones that might affect the Caribbean and North America. In summer, many AEWs form in, […]
On September 22-23, scientists with AOML’s Hurricane Research Division collected unique data from six Coyote UAS (uncrewed aircraft system) launched from NOAA’s P3 Hurricane Hunter aircraft into Hurricane Maria. The Coyote UAS gathered atmospheric, temperature, pressure, and moisture data in Maria’s eye and eyewall at altitudes as low as 300 feet above the ocean surface. The […]
