Mission Summary
20060917H1 Aircraft 42RF
Helene flight 2006

Scientific Crew (42RF)
LPSPaul Chang
Radar ScientistMike Black
IWRAP ScientistNESDIS Scientist
SFMR ScientistUMass Engineer

Mission Plan :

N42RF will fly an Ocean Winds experiment for NESDIS into Hurricane Helene, leaving Barbados at 10 AM EDT and recovering at Barbados some 9 hours later.

Mission Summary :

N42RF flew an Ocean Winds experiment for NESDIS into Hurricane Helene, leaving Barbados at 9 AM EDT and recovering at Barbados at 6 PM EDT.

Mission Data

NetCDF file | One second listing

Flight Data


Flight track
Temperature and Moisture
Wind and Atlitude

Flight track detail

Problems :

Pressure height maps of dropsonde data
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surface map

Page last updated Sept. 18, 2006
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