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PACJET Projects HMT 2004 PACJET 2003 PACJET 2002 PACJET 2001 CALJET 1998 Resources GPS Realtime Water Vapor GWINDEX West Coast RUC ETL Profiler Network Press Materials Background About Pacjet CALJET Summary Societal Impacts and User Input Linkages to National Priorities USWRP   Data Assimilation Implementation Plan March 2001 Program Status Report PACJET 2001 Poster NSSL Briefing Program Documents PACJET and a Long-term Effort to Improve 0-24 h West Coast Forecasts Overview Poster Research Participants NOAA Research   ETL,   NSSL,   FSL,   AL,   CDC National Weather Service Western Region   Eureka,   Hanford,   Medford,   Monterey,   Oxnard,   Portland,   Reno,   Sacramento,   San Diego,   Seattle,   CNFRC Office of Marine and Aviation Operations   AOC Naval Postgradute School DRI CIASTA CIRES SUNY Stony Brook National Centers for Environmental Prediction   EMC,   HPC,   MPC National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service   CIMSS,   CIRA Operational Forecasting Components COMET Presentation West Coast RUC Aircraft Obs via AWIPS GWINDEX Poster Applications Development Research Components Modeling Research Components Related Experiments Winter Storm Reconnaissance (Central Pac.) CRPAQS (CA Air Quality) IMPROVE (Microphysics) THORPEX (Synoptic Targeting) Observing Systems AEROSONDE NOAA P-3 Wind Profiler Network Satellite Products NOAA S-band Radar Contacts Program Media Contacts Webmaster Workshops 2001 - Monterey, CA July 13-14 2000 (Boulder, CO) July Workshop Agenda September 1999 - Monterey, CA 1999 Planning Workshop Figures June 1998 - CALJET

Images by Javier Chagoya, Naval Postgraduate School Photos taken February 8-9, 2001 during IOP 7 AP writer Tom Gardner donns an anti-exposure suit prior to take-off as part of the safety brief and equipment familiarization. Lieutenant Commander Brian Taggart is the plane commander for this mission that took scientists and researchers through an incoming storm. His Co-pilot Lt. Harris Halverson assists. Chief Scientist David Kingsmill of the Desert Research Institute at Reno, Nv. discusses the trac his team is following inside a slow-moving weather front. (Center) Research Assistant from Naval Postgraduate School Douglas Miller and (Right) NOAA Research Meteorologist Brad Smull. The weather outside of the P-3 looks dismal but are the sort of conditions the scientist love to be in while collecting atmospheric data. A close up of Miller and Smull at their observation and collection stations. Piloting through a weather front. Electronics Technician Richard McNamara prepares to jettison a Dropsonde device via the presurized sono chute.   Images from the NOAA PACJET Program Doug Miller of the Naval Postgraduate School reviews satellite images to guide the flight. Brian Colle of SUNY Stony Brook. "My work focuses on improving our understanding of landfalling fronts and cyclones as well as orographic precipitation processes. Observations collected by PACJET will provide a unique opportunity to study how frontal structures evolve approaching steep coastal terrain. These observations will be used to validate and supplement high resolution mesoscale model forecasts." Dave Jorgensen of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and Dan Miller of the Naval Postgraduate School study images from the P3's tail and fuselage radars. These research radars reveal the structure and dynamics of the storm. The NOAA P3 at Monterey, CA. Scientists and flight crew confer on the day's mission. Scientists and flight crew confer on the day's mission. Photos by Dave Jorgensen, NOAA NSSL Richard Torrey, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) flight engineer in the P3 cockpit. Tom Shepherd, NOAA AOC flight director, directs the inflight operations of the P3. Steve Goldstein, National Weather Service (NWS), Reno and PACJET PI Marty Ralph get psyched about the approaching front.

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