Mission Summary
20060829N1 Aircraft 49RF
Ernesto flight 2006

Scientific Crew (49RF)
Stan Goldenberg

Mission Plan :

The G-IV jet, with Stan Goldenberg aboard will fly a Synoptic Surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Ernesto. The jet will leave MacDill AFB, FL at 2:00 AM EDT and will recover at MacDill AFB, FL by 10:30 AM EDT.

Mission Summary :

The G-IV jet, with Stan Goldenberg aboard flew a Synoptic Surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Ernesto. The jet left MacDill AFB, FL at 2:00 AM EDT and recover at MacDill AFB, FL by 9:50 AM EDT. 23 GPS dropsondes were processed.

Pressure height maps of dropsonde data
200mb map
250mb map
300mb map
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500mb map
700mb map
850mb map
925mb map
1000mb map
surface map

Problems :

ERNESTO MISSION PLAN
ERNESTO
Aircraft: N49RF
Altitude: FL410-450
Proposed takeoff: 29/0600Z
DROP
#
LAT
(d m)
LON
(d m)
TIME
(h:mm)
1 27 00-78 000:36
2 27 00-76 000:51
3 27 00-74 001:06
4 25 00-75 001:25
5 23 00-74 001:43
6 22 54-76 061:59
7 21 38-76 242:10
9 19 36-74 302:41
11 20 03-78 103:13
12 20 03-80 023:27
13 21 08-81 323:42
14 21 00-84 004:02
15 19 00-84 004:18
16 20 00-86 004:36
17 22 00-86 004:52
18 22 00-88 005:08
19 23 00-90 005:26
20 25 00-91 005:44
21 27 00-93 006:07
22 25 00-89 006:42
23 25 00-86 007:05
24 23 00-84 007:28
25 25 00-84 007:44
26 27 00-85 008:02


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