HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) FLIGHT REPORTS V1

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Flight Reports provide information about flights flown by the WB-57 and Global Hawk aircrafts during the Hurricane and Severe Storms Sentinel (HS3) campaign from 2012 to 2014. Goals for HS3 included: assessing the relative roles of large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes; and addressing the controversial role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification as well as the role of deep convection in the inner-core region of storms. Both aircraft are capable of extended operations ranging from 6.5 hours up to 24 hours. Together they can carry large payloads and support altitudes ranging from sea-level to altitudes in excess of 60,000 feet. The large payloads bring a new capability to the science community for measuring, monitoring and observing remote locations of Earth not feasible or practical with piloted aircraft, most other robotic or remotely operated aircraft, or space satellites. The HS3 Flight Reports include information regarding flight number, flight time (beginning and end), location of the flight (flight segments), flight purpose, and comments regarding the flight and mission. In addition, some reports include corresponding satellite imagery, maps of flight tracks and dropsonde locations, and plotted instrument retrievals.

飓风与强风暴监视计划（HS3）飞行报告提供了有关在2012年至2014年飓风与强风暴监视计划（HS3）期间，由WB-57和全球鹰飞机执行的飞行任务的信息。HS3计划的目标包括：评估大规模环境与风暴尺度内部过程之间的相对作用；以及探讨撒哈拉空气层（SAL）在热带风暴形成和增强过程中的争议性角色，以及深对流在风暴核心区域中的作用。这两架飞机均具备长达6.5小时至24小时的持续飞行能力。它们共同携带大量有效载荷，能够支持从海平面至超过60,000英尺的高空飞行。这些大量有效载荷为科学界带来了新的能力，用于测量、监控和观察地球上无法或难以通过有人驾驶飞机、其他大多数机器人或遥控飞机，或空间卫星实现的偏远地区。HS3飞行报告包含了有关飞行编号、飞行时间（起始和结束）、飞行位置（飞行段落）、飞行目的，以及关于飞行和任务的评价性评论。此外，部分报告还包括相应的卫星图像、飞行轨迹和投掷探空仪位置的地图，以及绘制了仪器回收数据。