dropsonde

During Irene, NOAA's two P-3 hurricane hunter planes and a G-4 jet made repeated research flights into and around the storm, taking detailed dropsonde and Doppler radar measurements.

Budget cuts could limit hurricane forecasting Reuters 2011

Chris Urso/Tampa Tribune via Associated Press Technician Bill Olney prepared a dropsonde, a kind of probe, to be sent into Hurricane Irene.

Evacuations Begin as Irene Nears U.S. 2011

During Irene, NOAA's two P-3 hurricane hunter planes and a G-4 jet made repeated research flights into and around the storm, taking detailed dropsonde and Doppler radar measurements.

Budget cuts could limit hurricane forecasting Reuters 2011

The dark line is the official wind speed estimate while each symbol represents a measurement aircraft, satellite, surface, dropsonde, etc.

Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

Therefore, I predict 12 named and 4 major, with at least one of the named storms coming in mid to late November with a non-tropical origin, and at least one “major” being called such based on satellite values alone despite no dropsonde data indicating anything close to Class 3 winds.

Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit 2007

As mentioned earlier, I am concerned that the storm sizes aerial extents used in VK07 are too large for short-duration and early-stage storms, thus over-estimating the extent to which these small storms would have been detected prior to our modern satellite/dropsonde/doppler era.

YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit 2007

This dropsonde also directly measured a wind speed of 64 kt at 10 m, but post-storm analysis of the vertical profile suggests that this single observation was more likely a gust and not representative of the maximum sustained surface wind.

The 2006 Hurricane Season « Climate Audit 2006

Re #16 Bob, I think what they usually did was to fly into the center of a hurricane and then use a dropsonde to measure the center pressure.

Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit 2006

Like the name implies, a dropsonde is dropped out of the plane and it falls to the ocean.

Emanuel 2005 #3 « Climate Audit 2006

Re #101 Yes, there has been a lot of work to correlate Dvorak results with actual measurements aircraft, dropsonde, etc.

Emanuel – Pacific Adjustments « Climate Audit 2006