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2. Outline
3. HIRAD Instrument Overview
4. HIRAD Instrument Block Diagram 5. HIRAD Integration on WB-57 Aircraft 6. Hurricane Earl Best Trackand HIRAD 1 Sep. Overpass HIRAD overpass 7. Hurricane Earl Max Windspeed History HIRAD flight 8. Nearly Coincident HIRAD/WB-57 and SFMR/P-3Overpasses of Earl on 1 Sep. Storm-centric coordinate system
9. HIRAD TB Images at 4.0, 5.0 and 6.6 GHz along Northbound Earl Overpass 4.0 GHz 5.0 GHz 6.6 GHz 10. HIRAD/SFMR West Leg Overpass HIRAD Tb@ 4GHz HIRAD Tb@ 5GHz Model Tb@ 4GHz SFMR Wind +50 (m/s) SFMR Rain +50 (mm/hr) stop start SFMR Flt Dir Model data are Tb s computed from SFMR wind & rain fields Model Tb@ 5GHz 11. Hurricane Karl Best Trackand 3 HIRAD Overpasses on 14, 16 & 17 Sep. Storm center location during HIRAD overpasses indicated by triangles 12. HIRAD 5 GHz TB Image for Karl 16 Sep. Overpass Storm-centric Longitude (deg) Storm-centric Latitude (deg) Leg 8 Leg 10 Leg 6 13. Summary