NOAA Hurricane Field Program concludes research missions in the Central Atlantic
AOML/HRD has concluded research missions in the central North Atlantic. The goal of these flights was to sample the interactions between two tropical waves and the Saharan Air Layer, to gain a better understanding of tropical cyclogenesis processes as part of NOAA APHEX Genesis objectives, and to use model ensembles to target areas of forecast […]
Paper detailing the saildrone missions into Hurricane Sam published in The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
An overview of the saildrone mission into Hurricane Sam in September 2021 is presented. The paper describes how saildrones were coordinated with other observing platforms, presents preliminary scientific results to demonstrate their use, and offers a vision of future hurricane observations using multiple uncrewed observing systems. More information on saildrones in hurricanes can be found […]