Project # 2005-304 RAINEX

Hurricane RAinband and INtensity-change EXperiment

Principal Investigator(s):   Shuyi S. Chen, Robert A. Houze, Jr.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory P-3 Orion

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Flight
No.		 Start Date Flight Times (UTC) Mission Instrument
Anomalies
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TF05
Report		 08/17/2005 18:08:30
21:57:30
3.81 hours		 Intercomparison with NOAA P3 N43 none reported netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track X-Y-Z Track
RF01
Report		 08/27/2005 13:17:00
21:39:00
8.37 hours		 Hurricane Katrina (Day 3) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF02
Report		 08/28/2005 18:45:00
23:47:00
5.03 hours		 Hurricane Katrina (Day 4, Category 5) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF03
Report		 09/06/2005 18:35:00
22:43:00
4.13 hours		 Tropical Depression 16 (Ophelia) none reported netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF04
Report		 09/09/2005 12:49:00
19:53:00
7.07 hours		 Hurricane Ophelia (Day 4, Category 1) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF05
Report		 09/11/2005 17:05:00
00:44:01
7.65 hours		 Hurricane Ophelia (Day 6, Category 1) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF06
Report		 09/19/2005 16:15:00
22:30:00
6.25 hours		 Tropical Storm Rita (Day 1) QCRC, DPTC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF07
Report		 09/21/2005 14:59:30
21:56:00
6.94 hours		 Hurricane Rita (Day 3, approaching Category 5) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF08
Report		 09/22/2005 14:32:00
21:59:30
7.45 hours		 Hurricane Rita (Day 4, Concentric Eyewalls) QCRC, DPTC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
RF09
Report		 09/23/2005 16:03:22
00:35:01
8.53 hours		 Hurricane Rita (Day 5, Asymmetric Structure) QCRC netCDF
Low-Rate 		Temp/Dew Point GPS Altitude X-Y Track
X-Y Track (on station) 		X-Y-Z Track
X-Y-Z Track (on station)
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Last update: Fri Jun 23 22:03:29 GMT 2006