Aircraft Commander | Nate Kahn |
Co-pilot | John Rossi |
Flight Engineer | Tuffnel |
Flight Engineer | Paul Darby |
Navigator | Sam Urato |
Flight Director | Jack Parrish |
System Engineer | Todd Riechards |
System Engineer | Mac McAllister |
Data Technician | Mike Mascaro |
LPS | Frank Marks | HRD |
LPS | Jacob Hartung | NESDIS |
Dropsonde | Kathryn Sellwood | HRD |
Radar | Xuejin Zhang | HRD |
Observer | Zorana Jelenak | NESDIS |
Observer | Joe Sapp | NESDIS |
Observer | Stephanie Columbinin | |
Observer | Jamie Cook | |
Observer | Ian Oliver |
Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
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
| |
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 | ||||
1S | 28 57 | 80 00 | 105/180 | 0:24 | |||
2S | 32 27 | 80 00 | 105/360 | 1:17 | |||
3S | 31 35 | 81 46 | 105/300 | 1:44 | |||
4S | 29 50 | 78 15 | 105/120 | 2:37 | |||
5S | 31 35 | 78 14 | 105/060 | 3:04 | |||
6S | 29 42 | 81 59 | 120/240 | 4:01 |
Mission Evaluation / Problems :
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 |