Mission Summary
20140827I1 Aircraft 43RF
Ocean Winds Experiment into Tropical Storm Cristobal

Aircraft Crew (43RF)
Aircraft CommanderMark Sweeny
Co-pilotChris Kerns
Co-pilotScott Price
NavigatorPete Siegel
Flight EngineerJoe Klippel
Flight EngineerChris Lalonde
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Flight DirectorMike Holmes
System EngineerDana Naeher
Data TechnicianJoe Greene
AVAPSJeff Smith
Program ManagerJim McFadden

Scientific Crew (43RF)
LPSPaul Chang (NESDIS)
SFMRHeather Holbach (FSU)
IWRAPSulieman Alweiss (NESDIS)
IWRAPZorana Jelenak (NESDIS)
IWRAPTom Hartley (NESDIS)

Mission Plan :

NOAA43 will conduct an EMC-tasked TDR Experiment into Tropical Storm Cristobal. The aircraft will take off from MacDill AFB, FL at 1800 UTC and recover at MacDill AFB, FL at 0400 UTC.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL16:34 UTC MacDill AFB, FL01:29 UTC
Penetrations 6

7 dropsondes launched, 1 AXBT

Mission Evaluation:

Problems :

Mission Data :

NetCDF | Flight Director's manifest

Page last updated Nov. 20, 2014
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