TD-8 (which eventually became TS Hermine) was trying to get its act together in the Gulf of Mexico. With TD-8 the more imminent threat to the US, HRD planned a mission together with the NASA CAMEX-3 aircraft in TD-8 for 17 September. HRD's interest was to test the newly installed C-band vertically scanning Doppler profiler/scatterometer (VSDR/C-SCAT) and NASA's interest was precipitation in the TD-8 rainbands and a TRMM overpass. The mission was conducted with excellent data sets collected by all 3 aircraft (1 WP-3D, DC-8 and ER-2).
GPS dropsonde (HSA) data format
| Storm/ Date | Aircraft (Duration) | Altitude |
Experiment | Comments (expendables) |
| TD-8 | ||||
| 16 September | G-IV (9 h) GPS dropsondes |
41 kft |
Synoptic Surveillance | 29 GPS sondes |
| 17 September | N42RF (3.5 h) mission summary WC-130 |
10-14 kft |
N42RF flew in rainbands along the W FL coast DC-8 ER-2 and UND Citation TRMM patterns working with KTPA AFRES recon. |
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