Aircraft Commander | Nate Kahn |
Co-pilot | John Rossi |
Co-pilot | Adam Abitbol |
Flight Engineer | Lalonde |
Flight Engineer | Paul Darby |
Navigator | Richards |
Flight Director | Jack Parrish |
System Engineer | Mike McAllister |
Data Technician | Todd Richards |
AVAPS | Jeff Smith |
LPS | Frank Marks | HRD |
Dropsonde | Kathryn Sellwood | HRD |
Radar | Xuejin Zhang | HRD |
Observer | Zorana Jelenak | NESDIS |
Observer | Joe Sapp | NESDIS |
Observer | Elise Colon | |
Observer | Elizabeth Telim Rosse | |
Observer | Milton Telmum Zluego | |
Observer | Charles Edwards |
Radar | John Gamache | HRD |
![]() Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190905H2 mission for Dorian |
![]() Figure 2. Actual Flight track for 20190905H2 mission for Dorian |
Mission Plan :
NOAA42 will conduct an EMC-tasked TDR mission into Hurricane Dorian followed by a landfall module.
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 19:50 UTC
| Linder_Lakeland, FL
| 02:58 UTC
| Penetrations
| 8
| Expendables
| 34 GPS sondes
| |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division Aug. 30, 2019 12:15 PM EDT Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 05/2000Z | |||||||
DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
# | LAT | LON | RAD/AZMON | Time | |||
deg min | deg min | deg nm | hr:min | ||||
1S | 31 51 | 78 06 | 105/180 | 0:58 | |||
2S | 34 26 | 78 06 | 50/360 | 1:38 | |||
3S | 34 01 | 78 58 | 50/300 | 1:51 | |||
4S | 32 44 | 76 18 | 105/120 | 2:30 | |||
5S | 34 29 | 76 16 | 105/060 | 2:57 | |||
6S | 32 44 | 79 54 | 105/240 | 3:51 | |||
7S | 32 05 | 79 08 | 105/210 | 4:05 | |||
8S | 34 19 | 77 36 | 50/030 | 4:44 | |||
9S | 32 44 | 79 54 | 105/240 | 5:23 |
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 | AXBT log | Drop log Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data |