When available, snapshots of radar data from NOAA's two P-3s (NOAA2 and NOAA3) will now be available on my site.
Temporarily, the data will appear here:
http://tropicalatlantic.com/noaa-aoc/images.shtml?path=radar&thumbnails=1Check the filename at the end of the directory list for information on how often the live archive is updating.
Eventually the radar data should appear in my live recon system. A little icon will appear along a Google Earth track that you can click to view the radar image from that location. (Because this will be new, my site will be unable to place some radar data along a track and will be browse-able elsewhere.) That might be running in a few weeks. I am also working hard on getting NOAA AXBT data into my live system. That is something they drop from the plane and then from the ocean surface it drops a sensor deep down recording water temperature as it goes down. (Temporarily my site continues to have a raw text archive
here.) I hope to have all of this done in the next few weeks in my new
experimental recon system.
Right now the radar imagery is only available when someone aboard a NOAA P-3 flight takes a snapshot of the radar and sends it to the server my site collects data from. In as soon as a few weeks that might be somewhat of an automated process. I do not know how often data will be available. It's not something where you can view a loop, it's simply a radar image from the aircraft from a certain location. At most probably they might do radar from the center and turn points sometimes. I don't know.
One of NOAA's P-3s (NOAA3) is doing some research into Edouard today, but I don't know, and I will not know, when radar data will be available for any flight. (I'll have to check my site too in order to see!)
NOAA is actually preparing for a lot of research:
http://noaahrd.wordpress.com/All of the aircraft are being positioned.
The G-IV (NOAA9) is ferrying to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The other P-3 (NOAA2) is ferrying to Bermuda. I'm not sure what it will be doing, but I do know that they are trying to launch the new Coyote drone into a storm when they can. That will only be done from NOAA2 this year. They may have around five of those drones to use. I'm not sure if they plan to test it Edouard or not. (My site will not have data available from those drones.)
The NASA Global Hawk will fly around Edouard today too. A note about this year's NASA HS3 mission with the Global Hawk. Unfortunately the other Global Hawk has had electrical issues and will not participate in this year's research mission. (
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/update-and-qa-on-nasas-2014-hs3-hurricane-mission/ ) So just the one.
And in other recon news, there will be recon today of course into Odile in the East Pacific.
Track NASA, NOAA and Air Force aircraft:
http://airbornescience.nasa.gov/tracker/And then my site has NASA dropsondes, when they get around a storm and start dropping them, and then more in-depth data of course for NOAA and Air Force aircraft.
NOAA3 and the Global Hawk are currently en-route to Edouard.