Category: IFEX – Hurricane Field Program
Daily updates on NOAA’s Intensity Forecast Experiment including HRD’s Hurricane Field Program and operational and NESDIS partners
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2018
December’s science meeting consisted of seven presentations:Dave Raymond: "The Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) Field Campaign"Xuejin Zhang: "Development of Hurricane Analysis and Forecasting System"Rob Rogers: "Summary of the 2018 HFP-IFEX"Dr. Chris Barnett: "Overview of JPSS Atlantic/SAL Field Campaign Activities"Gus Alaka: "Verification of the 2018 Basin-Scale HWRF"Michael Fischer: "On the RI of Hurricane Irma"Chris … Continue reading HRD Monthly Science Meeting of December 2018
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Michael – 26 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 6 P-3 and 3 G-IV missions into Hurricane Michael, AL14 (8-10 October 2018). The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview (Jon Zawislak) 20181008H1 (Kelly Ryan) 20181009H1 (Rob Rogers) 20181009N2 (Jason Dunion/ John Kaplan) 20181009H2/Coyote (Kelly Ryan) 20181010H1 (Rob Rogers/ Jon Zawislak) EMC … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Michael – 26 October 2018
HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Florence, EP96 Genesis, and G-IV SAL Mission – 22 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 3 P-3 and 9 G-IV missions into Hurricane Florence, AL06 (8-13 September 2018). The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview 20180908H1 (Jon Zawislak) 20180909H1 (Jon Zawislak) 20180910H1 (Jon Zawislak) NESDIS / Ocean Winds (Joe Sapp NESDIS) HRD researchers also discussed the results … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Hurricane Florence, EP96 Genesis, and G-IV SAL Mission – 22 October 2018
HRD observation team monthly meeting – 18 October 2018
The purpose of the observation team meetings is to bring together the people who use observations in their research on a regular basis to discuss issues they’re having, provide updates on observations they’re analyzing or collecting, and any other information that may be of interest to the broader group. These meetings are also an excellent … Continue reading HRD observation team monthly meeting – 18 October 2018
HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm Gordon and Hurricane Isaac – 17 October 2018
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 3 P-3 missions into Tropical Storm Gordon, AL07 (3-4 September 2018) . The agenda for the discussion was: Agenda: Missions Overview (Jon Zawislak) Deployment Overview (Jon Zawislak) 180903H1 (Robert Rogers) 180904H1 (Ghassan Alaka) 180904H2 (Hui Christophersen) HRD researchers also discussed the results from the 5 P-3 missions into … Continue reading HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm Gordon and Hurricane Isaac – 17 October 2018
Hurricane Field Program Update – Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The NOAA P-3 completed its last mission into Hurricane Michael this morning, passing through the storm four times. As in the previous three missions, we provided critical measurements of the 3-D wind, precipitation, and thermodynamic (temperature and humidity) structure of the storm from our Doppler radar, dropsondes, and flight level measurements. The data was not … Continue reading Hurricane Field Program Update – Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Hurricane Field Program Update – Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 1 PM ET
Tuesday, October 9, 2018: NOAA42: The NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) has tasked the P-3 for an operational mission into Hurricane Michael. Take off from Lakeland, FL will be at 4:00 PM EDT. Four HRD scientists will be on this mission. The flight track of the mission is shown below. The goal is to collect Doppler … Continue reading Hurricane Field Program Update – Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 1 PM ET
Hurricane Field Program Update – Monday, October 8, 2018, 10 AM ET
Monday, October 8, 2018: NOAA42: The NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) has tasked the P-3 for operational missions into Hurricane Michael, currently located east of the Yucatan Peninsula. Take off from Lakeland, FL, will be at 4:00 PM EDT. Three HRD scientists will be on this mission. The flight track of the mission is shown below. … Continue reading Hurricane Field Program Update – Monday, October 8, 2018, 10 AM ET
Hurricane Field Program Update – Saturday, September 29, 2018
Unfortunately, the NOAA P-3 was not able to complete a 4th and final mission into developing Invest 96E today. Invest 96E completed its genesis phase as it is now Tropical Storm Sergio. We were able to complete three important, unique genesis missions with the P-3 over the past few days, and these will prove valuable … Continue reading Hurricane Field Program Update – Saturday, September 29, 2018
