Aircraft Commander | Justin Kibbey |
Co-pilot | Kahn |
Co-pilot | Rossi |
Flight Engineer | Ken Heystek |
Flight Engineer | Mike Sanchez |
Navigator | Freeman |
Flight Director | Mike Holmes |
System Engineer | Terry Lynch |
Data Technician | Todd Richards |
Dropsonde Operator | Underwood |
Lead Project Scientist | Jon Zawislak | HRD |
Radar Scientist | Jason Dunion | HRD |
Dropsonde Scientist | Heather Holbach | HRD |
Observer | Todd Kimberlain | NHC |
Observer | Holger Voemel | NCAR |
Guest | Dennis Ross | US Congress |
Radar Scientist | John Gamache | HRD |
Mission Plan :
NOAA 42RF (N42) will perform an EMC-tasked TDR mission in Hurricane Irma.
![]() Figure 1. Proposed flight track for 20170908H1 |
![]() Actual flight track for 20170908H1 |
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division August 07, 2017 Aircraft: N42RF Proposed takeoff: 08/0700Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
| #
| LAT
| LON
| RAD/AZM
| Time
|
| deg min
| deg min
| n mi/deg
| hr:min
| 1S | 22 00 | 75 37 | 90/270 | 1:33
| 2I | 22 00 | 74 48 | 1:45
| 3I | 22 00 | 74 00 | 1:56
| 4I | 22 00 | 73 12 | 2:08
| 5S | 22 00 | 72 23 | 90/090 | 2:19
| 6S | 23 30 | 74 00 | 90/000 | 2:51
| 7I | 22 45 | 74 00 | 3:03
| 8I | 22 00 | 74 00 | 3:15
| 9I | 21 15 | 74 00 | 3:26
| 10S | 20 30 | 74 00 | 90/180 | 3:37
| 11S | 20 56 | 72 52 | 90/135 | 3:55
| 12I | 21 28 | 73 26 | 4:07
| 13I | 22 00 | 74 00 | 4:18
| 14I | 22 32 | 74 34 | 4:29
| 15S | 23 04 | 75 09 | 90/315 | 4:41
| 16S | 20 56 | 75 08 | 90/225 | 5:13
| 17I | 21 28 | 74 34 | 5:25
| 18I | 22 00 | 74 00 | 5:37
| 19I | 22 32 | 73 26 | 5:45
| 20S | 23 04 | 72 51 | 90/045 | 5:53
| |
Mission Summary :
Take off | Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 07:24 UTC
| Linder-Lakeland, FL
| 15:32 UTC
| Penetrations
| 4
| |
Mission Evaluation:
Problems :
NetCDF SFMR data | |
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![]() Flight level wind plots full flight |
![]() Flight level wind plots in storm |
![]() SFMR wind plots full flight |
![]() SFMR wind plots in storm |
![]() Flight track |
![]() Temperature and Moisture |
![]() Wind and Atlitude |
![]() Detailed Flight track |
SFMR data |
LPS log |
Radar log |
Drop log |
AXBT log
Flight Director's manifest
Flight Director's log |
serial data
NetCDF data |
1 second data