Aircraft Commander | Scott Price |
Co-pilot | Mitchell |
Co-pilot | Rees |
Flight Engineer | Paul Darby |
Flight Engineer | Todd Tuffnel |
Navigator | Urato |
Navigator | Sloan |
Flight Director | Jack Parrish |
Flight Director | Belson |
System Engineer | James Warnecke |
Data Technician | Mike Mascaro |
Dropsonde Operator | McAllister |
Lead Project Scientist | Jon Zawislak | HRD |
Radar Scientist | Jun Zhang | HRD |
AXBT Scientist | George Alvery | Univ. Utah |
Radar Scientist | Paul Reasor | HRD |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 42RF (N42) will perform an EMC-tasked TDR mission in Hurricane Irma.
![]() Figure 1. Proposed flight track for 20170903H1 |
![]() Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20170903H1 |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division August 07, 2017 Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 03/1900Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
| #
| LAT
| LON
| RAD/AZM
| Time
|
| deg min
| deg min
| n mi/deg
| hr:min
| 1S | 16 11 | 49 12 | 105/210 | 1:56
| 2S | 19 13 | 47 23 | 105/030 | 2:49
| 3S | 19 13 | 49 13 | 105/330 | 3:16
| 4S | 16 11 | 47 24 | 105/150 | 4:09
| 5S | 17 42 | 46 28 | 105/090 | 4:36
| 6S | 17 42 | 50 08 | 105/270 | 5:29
| |
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Barbados, BWI
| 19:11 UTC
| Barbados, BWI
| 02:30 UTC
| Penetrations
| 3
| |
Mission Evaluation:
Problems :
![]() HDOB plots full flight |
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![]() Flight level wind plots full flight |
![]() Flight level wind plots in storm |
![]() Flight level wind plots full flight |
![]() Flight level wind plots in storm |
![]() Flight track |
![]() Temperature and Moisture |
![]() Wind and Atli tude |
![]() Detailed Flight track |
LPS log |
Radar log |
Drop log |
AXBT log
Flight Director's manifest
Flight Director's log |
NetCDF data |
SFMR data |
serial data |
1 second data