The NOAA P-3

General Information
Specialized data base
Datasets in the FASTEX Central Archive
Information on available data
Flights
Data selection page


General Information

  • Description
  • Name : Lockheed P-3 Orion
  • Owner : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Operator : Aircraft Operations Center (AOC)
  • Tail Number : N42RF
  • In-air call sign : NOAA 49
  • Location:
  • Home site : MaxDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida (USA)
  • Base during FASTEX: Shannon Airport, Ireland
  • FASTEX Instruments
  • C-Band lower fuselage radar
  • X-Band Doppler tail radar with French built dual-beam antenna
  • GPS Dropwindsondes ( more information on the NCAR/ATD Web server dropsonde Page )
  • solar and sky radiometers
  • Cloud physics probes
  • liquid water content probe
  • Flight level data
  • Aircraft characteristics and instrumentation

  • Specialized data base :

  • The NOAA/NSSL/Mesoscale Research & Applications Division
  • Radar composite images are available on the NSSL/MRB Web Page

  • Data sets in the FASTEX Central Archive:

  • Low resolution dropsonde data
  • High resolution dropsonde data
  • Aircraft in-situ meteorological data
  • Composited Images from Aircraft radar
  • Airborne doppler radars dynamical fields
  • Retrieved TEMP from hi. res dropsonde data
  • Datasets planned:
  • Airborne doppler radars profiles will be included in the FASTEX Central Archive at the date of the first international publication using these data.
  • Airborne doppler radars dynamical fields : other fields will be included in the FASTEX Central Archive as they are donated par the PI.

  • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive

  • Low and High resolution dropsounding data per hour
  • In-situ Meteorological Measurements
  • Composited Images from Aircraft radar
  • Airborne doppler radars profiles
  • Airborne doppler radars dynamical fields

  • Miscellaneous information

  • NOAA P3 flights:

    FT = Flight track
    FL = Flight log
    CR = Chief Scientists Report

    # IOPTakeoffBlock inFTFLCR
    01 10 Jan 02:05Z 10 Jan 10:46Z X X X
    02 12 Jan 11:50Z 12 Jan 20:52Z X X X
    05 22 Jan 09:00Z 22 Jan 18:29Z X X X
    07 25 Jan 20:53Z 26 Jan 04:53Z X X X
    09 02 Feb 15:19Z 03 Feb 00:38Z X X X
    10 04 Feb 05:46Z 04 Feb 15:20Z X X X
    11 05 Feb 20:40Z 06 Feb 06:40Z X X X
    12 09 Feb 13:00Z 09 Feb 22:48Z X X X
    15 15 Feb 07:07Z 15 Feb 16:56Z X X X
    16 17 Feb 03:10Z 17 Feb 12:41Z X X X
    17 19 Feb 02:48Z 19 Feb 11:58Z X X X
    18 23 Feb 10:40Z 23 Feb 19:57Z X X X

  • Updated : 24 October 2000
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