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Non-Tasked Aerial Reconnaissance for the North Atlantic in 2012

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Other basins with non-tasked data in 2012: 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. 29th Track62
Miss. #04 		AF Plane IconAF303 High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Dec. 29th Track66
Miss. #03 		AF Plane IconAF300 Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

November
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Nov. 17th Track62
Miss. #02 		AF Plane IconAF305 Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Nov. 6th Track65
Miss. #01 		AF Plane IconAF303 High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

October
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Oct. 29th Sandy
Miss. #WA 		NOAA Plane IconN49RF High Density, Dropsonde Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Oct. 15th Rafael
Miss. #WA 		NOAA Plane IconN42RF High Density, Vortex, Dropsonde, Recco, AXBT Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

September
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Sep. 8th Leslie
Miss. #WA 		NOAA Plane IconN49RF High Density, Dropsonde, Recco Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

August
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Aug. 30th Isaac
Miss. #WA 		NOAA Plane IconN42RF High Density, Dropsonde, Recco, AXBT Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo

February
Date Mission Identifier Agency Aircraft Product(s) Map
Feb. 19th Track65
Miss. #04 		AF Plane IconAF304 High Density, Dropsonde Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Feb. 18th Track66
Miss. #03 		AF Plane IconAF306 Dropsonde Non-Tasked Mission in Google Earth Cesium Logo
Feb. 18th Track66
Miss. #02 		AF Plane IconAF306 High Density, Dropsonde 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.