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Non-Tasked Aerial Reconnaissance for the North Atlantic in 2008

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Other basins with non-tasked data in 2008: East & Central Pacific | West Pacific

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This page contains missions that usually have not been tasked by the National Hurricane Center. However, some missions into tropical cyclones do appear here, such as research missions. You will also find winter missions on this page.
December
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Dec. 21st Track61
Miss. #01 		AF Plane IconAF305 High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

November
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Nov. 8th Paloma5 NOAA Plane IconN43RF High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Nov. 8th Paloma4 NOAA Plane IconN49RF Dropsonde Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Nov. 7th Paloma3 NOAA Plane IconN43RF High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Nov. 7th Paloma2 NOAA Plane IconN49RF Dropsonde Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Nov. 7th Paloma1 NOAA Plane IconN43RF High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

September
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Sep. 8th Ike NOAA Plane IconN42RF High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

January
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Jan. 18th Track66
Miss. #05 		AF Plane IconAF303 High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Jan. 13th Track61
Miss. #04 		AF Plane IconAF302 High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

All times and dates on this page are in Zulu time.

Non-tasked Air Force missions, other than winter storm tracks, usually have a 15 digit number for an identifier. (and sometimes 11 digits) Sometimes they might drop a single sonde or two and have a few non-tropical RECCO messages. Long term, this data is likely less important than other data. Missions with an 11 or 15 digit identifier are automatically deleted after 21 days.