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November 9-10, 2009
TTUHRT member Tanya Brown inspects a StickNet probe following Tropical Storm Ida. Photo by Ian Giammanco.
Tropical Storm Ida made landfall near Dauphin Island, AL on November 10, 2009. Ida marked the first deployment of Texas Tech's new Ka-band mobile Doppler radar system into a landfalling tropical cyclone. TTUKA-1 collected approximately 8 hours of radar data from marine exposure from Gulf Shores, AL. In addition, seven StickNets were deployed from Dauphin Island eastward through Orange Beach in an effort to collect data from the immediate shoreline. Both instrument platforms were able to observe the beginning of Ida's transition to an extra-tropical system. TTUHRT coordinated deployments with other Digital Hurricane Consortium groups. For summary data collected from StickNet probes during Tropical Storm Ida please see our Tropical Storm Ida page.
October 2, 2009
TTUHRT member Tanya Brown discusses the StickNet platforms and the TTUHRT deployment for Hurricane Ike with members of the Osher Lifelong Learners Institute. Photo by Ian Giammanco.
The Osher Lifelong Learners Institute toured the Wind Science and Engineering Resse Technology Center facility. The group participated in instrumentation displays featuring TTUHRT's StickNet platforms as well as the new TTUKA-1 and TTUKA-2 mobile Doppler radars. The tour was led by TTUHRT member Brian Hirth. In addition, TTUHRT member Tanya Brown provided background information on past deployments, including VORTEX 2 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 while radar engineer Jerry Guynes discussed the new technologies employed during the development of the new radar systems.
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