Mission Summary
20160825I2 Aircraft 43RF
Tropical Disturbance Al99

Aircraft Crew (43RF)
Aircraft CommanderChristopher Kerns
Co-pilotAdam Abitbol
Co-pilotRobert Mitchell
Flight EngineerPaul Darby
NavigatorTim Gallagher
Flight DirectorIan Sears
Flight DirectorJess Williams
System EngineerTerry Lynch
Data TechnicianMike Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorTodd Richards

Scientific Crew (43RF)
LPSJoe CioneHRD
RadarGus AlakaHRD
DropsKathryn SellwoodHRD
AXBTLeon NguyenHRD

Mission Plan :


Proposed NOAA 43 track

An HRD-tasked RI/Genesis mission into Tropical Disturbance 99L.

MISSION PLAN: AL99
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
August 23, 2016
Aircraft: N43RF
Proposed takeoff: 25/0600Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZM Time
deg min deg min n mi/deg hr:min
1S22 1272 07 90/2702:02
2S22 1268 53 90/0902:48
3S23 3069 42 90/0303:11
4S20 5471 18 90/2103:57
5S20 5469 42 90/1504:20
6S23 3071 18 90/3305:05
Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
MacDill AFB, FL 18:07 UTC MacDill AFB, FL 23:49 UTC

Problems :

Wind Lidar, worked well.


Mission Data :


Plot of raw High Density Obs

Flight Level wind plots

SFMR wind plots

Final flight track

Final flight track

Final flight track detail


Flight track

Temperature and Moisture

Wind and Atlitude

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data | 1 second data | serial data


Page last updated Nov. 2, 2016
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