PowerPoint from NOAA HRD on Edouard
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 10/5/2014, 11:09 pm
https://www.facebook.com/noaahrd/posts/945393828808800




Some information from the PowerPoint presentation that has some info on the Coyote drone. (There is a lot of stuff in this 21mb file with 98 slides.)



"First air-deployed UAS mission into a hurricane (a major one at that!)

When: 1432Z September 16th 2014
Where: Deployed into Major Hurricane Edouard's eye (then eyewall)
Deployment aircraft: NOAA WP-3D Orion (42)
UAS flight duration: 28 minutes
Minimum Altitude: 896m
Maximum Wind Speed: 100kt @971m (in SW eyewall)  Platform record!"



"SUAVE experiment conducted"





Coyote UAS in Edouard's eye and eyewall





I had also wondered what underwater glider they were doing a mission with and now I see it was SG610 and the data for it and another are online:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/gliders/observations.php
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