Mission Summary
20170924H2 Aircraft 42RF
Hurricane Maria
DWL/COYOTE

Aircraft Crew (42RF)
Aircraft CommanderScott Price
Co-pilotRossi
Co-pilotDidier
Flight EngineerKen Heystek
Flight EngineerMkke Sanchez
NavigatorFreeman
Flight DirectorJess Williams
System EngineerPaul
Data TechnicianMarc Mascaro
Dropsonde OperatorMcAlister

Scientific Crew (42RF)
Lead Project ScientistJoe CioneHRD
Radar ScientistJun ZhangHRD
Dropsonde ScientistKelly RyanHRD
CoyoteBrad KentRaytheon
CoyoteJerry DellingerRaytheon
CoyoteAschley SchillerU.S.Congress Aide

Mission Plan :

NOAA 42RF (N42) will perform an HRD-tasked Doppler Winds LIDAR and COYOTE mission into Hurricane Maria.


Detail of proposed flight track for 20170924H2

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Linder-Lakeland, FL 17:08 UTC Linder-Lakeland, FL 02:11 UTC
Penetrations 10

Expendables: 2 COYOTES, 12 dropsondes (11 IR), 11 AXBTs

Mission Evaluation:

Problems :


Mission Data :

NetCDF SFMR data

Timeseries wind, rain rate, and pressure plots

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

Flight track detail

LPS log | Radar log | DWL log | Drop log
SFMR data | Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest NetCDF data | serial data 1 second data


Page last updated Jan. 12, 2018
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