HRD Flight Requirements for 2005
HRD Flight Requirements - P-3s
(in order of priority)
Operational needs – tasked by NHC
• Reconnaissance/Surface Winds
Research opportunities – tasked by HRD/NESDIS
• IFEX: Mature storm/Genesis/ Wind Fields
at Landfall
• Ocean Winds (equal priority to above)
• RAINEX (equal priority to above)
HRD Flight Requirements - G-IV
(in order of priority)
Operational needs – tasked by NHC
• Synoptic Surveillance
• Core Penetration Tests
Research opportunities – tasked by HRD
• IFEX: Saharan Air Layer
• RAINEX
• IFEX: Synoptic Environment of Mature Storm
• IFEX: Synoptic Environment of Tropical
Cyclogenesis (interaction with NASA TCSP in
East Pacific)
Flight Pattern Criteria – P-3s
Operational
• Figure-4 pattern
• Leg lengths extended for surface wind
mapping
Research
• 225 research flight hours for HRD
• Patterns dependent on module
• Flight patterns will be available in
Hurricane Field Program Plan
Flight Pattern Criteria – G-IV
Operational
•Targets defined as maximum forecasted DLM
wind field variance at obs time from GFS
•All drops must be over open water and are generally
dropped at a resolution of 222 km
•Flight tracks are limited to 8.5 h when plane
recovers in continental US, 8 h at St. Croix and
Barbados, 7.5 h in Bermuda
•Missions commence at 1730 and 0530 UTC
•Generally do not have clearance to overfly
Cuba, Hispaniola, or Central America
Research
•45 research flight hours for HRD
•Patterns dependent on module
•Flight patterns will be available in Hurricane Field
Program Plan