HS3 Flight Reports for Hurricane and Storm Research Campaigns

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) campaign flight reports document missions flown by WB-57 and Global Hawk aircraft from 2012 to 2014. These reports contain operational details like flight number, time, location, purpose, and comments, with some entries supplemented by satellite imagery and flight track maps. The dataset's cross-platform presence on Data.gov and NASA EarthData indicates its established role in atmospheric science.

Use Cases

• Analyzing flight patterns and operational segments for specific hurricane research missions.
• Correlating flight purpose and comments with storm-scale internal processes or Saharan Air Layer (SAL) effects.
• Reviewing plotted instrument retrievals and dropsonde locations from specific flight reports.
• Studying the temporal schedule and duration of aircraft deployments during the 2012-2014 campaign.

Strengths

• Covers a defined, multi-year NASA field campaign (HS3) from 2012 to 2014.
• Includes multimodal elements such as satellite imagery and flight track maps alongside tabular report data.
• Documents flights from two specialized high-altitude aircraft capable of operations from sea-level to over 60,000 feet.

Limitations

• Core data dimensions (row count, column names, file size) are unspecified across all sources.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date (2014 on NASA EarthData vs. 2026 on Data.gov), suggesting potential metadata inconsistencies.
• License is ambiguously noted as 'other-license-specified' without clear terms.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Documented flight reports generated during the HS3 airborne campaign.

Time Range

2012 to 2014

Freshness

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Geography

Flight locations over regions relevant to hurricane and severe storm study, including tropical Atlantic areas influenced by the Saharan Air Layer.