Aircraft Missions (2005)
¥ Frequent Monitoring
¥ Aerosonde
¥ SALEX
¥ Ocean Response
¥ ET Transition
¥ Landfall
¥ Hurricane decay experiment (not completed)
Field Efforts (2005)
¥ SFMR Validation
¥ Mapping of the center wind field from airborne Doppler radar and its transmission to EMC and NHC in real-time
¥ Real-time transmission of lower fuselage radar
¥ High-altitude penetrations of the hurricane's center


¥ IFEX (OAR SPI)
¥ NASA TCSP (proposal driven)
¥ NSF RAINEX (some sondes supplied)
¥ NOAA Ocean Winds Experiment
2006
¥IFEX (funding??)
¥African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) (funding??)
¥ NOAA Ocean Winds Experiment
HRDÕs Hurricane Field Program 2006
IFEX 2005 versus IFEX 2006

Framework