Mission Summary
20190904H1 Aircraft 42RF
TDR/Ocean Winds

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderNate Kahn
Co-pilotJohn Rossi
Flight EngineerTuffnel
Flight EngineerPaul Darby
NavigatorSam Urato
Flight DirectorJack Parrish
System EngineerTodd Riechards
System EngineerMac McAllister
Data TechnicianMike Mascaro

Science crew (42RF)
LPSFrank MarksHRD
LPSJacob HartungNESDIS
DropsondeKathryn SellwoodHRD
RadarXuejin ZhangHRD
ObserverZorana JelenakNESDIS
ObserverJoe SappNESDIS
ObserverStephanie Columbinin
ObserverJamie Cook
ObserverIan Oliver

Science crew (Ground)
RadarJohn GamacheHRD


Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190904H1 mission for Dorian

Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190904H1 mission for Dorian

Mission Plan :

NOAA42 will conduct an EMC-tasked TDR mission into Hurricane Dorian followed by NESFIS Ocean Winds module.

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL 19:46 UTC Linder_Lakeland, FL 02:12 UTC
Penetrations 6
Expendables 34 GPS sondes

TDR MISSION PLAN: DORIAN
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
Aug. 30, 2019 12:15 PM EDT
Aircraft: N42RF
Proposed takeoff: 05/0000Z??
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZMON Time
deg min deg min deg nm hr:min
1S28 5780 00 105/1800:24
2S32 2780 00 105/3601:17
3S31 3581 46 105/3001:44
4S29 5078 15 105/1202:37
5S31 3578 14 105/0603:04
6S29 4281 59 120/2404:01

Mission Evaluation / Problems :


Mission Data :


Flight level wind along track

Flight level wind along track in storm

SFMR wind along flight track

SFMR wind along flight track in storm

Altitude, Pressure, Rain Rate, and Wind

LPS log | Radar log | Drop log Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data |


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