{"id":25438,"date":"2022-09-24T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T02:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2022-09-24T23:32:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T03:32:47","slug":"noaa-hurricane-hunters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/09\/24\/noaa-hurricane-hunters-3\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA Hurricane Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Specially equipped NOAA aircraft play an integral role in hurricane forecasting. Data collected during hurricanes by these high-flying meteorological stations help forecasters make accurate predictions during a hurricane and help hurricane researchers achieve a better understanding of storm processes, improving their forecast models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last NOAA Flight #42 to Hurricane Dorian Pre Flight and Taxi and Photo’s<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

P-3 Orion: Into the Storm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hurricane Dorian 2019 Photo taken from inside Miss Piggy photo by Chuck Edwards <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Slicing through the eyewall of a hurricane, buffeted by howling winds, blinding rain, and violent updrafts and downdrafts before entering the relative calm of the storm\u2019s eye, NOAA\u2019s two Lockheed WP-3D Orion<\/a> four-engine turboprop aircraft, affectionately nicknamed “Kermit” (N42RF<\/a>) and “Miss Piggy” (N43RF<\/a>), probe every wind and pressure change, repeating the often grueling experience again and again during the course of an 8-10 hour mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientists aboard the aircraft deploy Global Positioning System (GPS) dropwindsondes as the P-3 flies through the hurricane. These instruments continuously transmit measurements of pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction and speed as they fall toward the sea, providing a detailed look at the structure of the storm and its intensity. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The P-3s’ tail Doppler radar and lower fuselage radar systems, meanwhile, scan the storm vertically and horizontally, giving scientists and forecasters a real-time look at the storm. The P-3s can also deploy probes called bathythermographs that measure the temperature of the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storm surge forecasts have benefited from the addition of NOAA-developed Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometers (SFMRs) to NOAA\u2019s P-3s. SFMRs measure over-ocean wind speed and rain rate in hurricanes and tropical storms, key indicators of potentially deadly storm surges. Surge is a major cause of hurricane-related deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to conducting research<\/a> to help scientists better understand hurricanes and other kinds of tropical cyclones, NOAA’s P-3s participate in storm reconnaissance missions<\/a> when tasked to do so by the NOAA National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center<\/a>. The purpose of these missions is primarily to locate the center of the storm and measure central pressure and surface winds around the eye. (The U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron also supports this mission with their WC-130J aircraft.) Information from both research and reconnaissance flights directly contribute to the safety of people living along and visiting the vulnerable Atlantic and Gulf coasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOAA P-3s also participate in a wide variety of national and international meteorological and oceanographic research programs. Recently, these aircraft have been used in major studies on storms approaching the continents of Europe and North America to improve forecasts and study the effects of El Ni\u00f1o, atmospheric gases and aerosols over the North Atlantic, large-scale convective storm complexes in the Midwest, and winter storms battering U.S. Pacific coastal states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fly into Lakeland Linder in Miss Piggy Hurricane Dorian 2019 photo by Chuck Edwards <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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