Recon flight plan

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Recon flight plan

#1 Postby ameriwx2003 » Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:54 pm

Recon out Thursday Afternoon and a GIV flight for Thursday evening:):).

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAREPRPD.shtml?
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#2 Postby GalvestonDuck » Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:00 pm

Question -- what's GIV?

Thanks!
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#3 Postby ameriwx2003 » Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:08 pm

The GIV is the Gulfstream flight that will sample the atmosphere:):).. Hopefully this will help the models:):):)

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/jetgen.html
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#4 Postby jfaul » Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:11 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:Question -- what's GIV?

Thanks!


the noaa high altitude jet that samples the area and feeds that data to the models..that is the key to getting really good data for the models
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