Institute for Atmospheric Physics - Falcon aircraft observations improve the typhoon forecasts

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Falcon aircraft observations improve the typhoon forecasts

The DLR research aircraft Falcon is stationed at the US Naval Facility Atsugi in Japan since 23 August. It performs observations to improve typhoon forecasts and to investigate the interaction of tropical storms with the midlatidute airflow. Together with two US research aircraft and one aircraft from Taiwan, the life cycle of a typhoon was documented by airborne observations over a period of nearly two weeks for the first time, from the early stage in the tropics until the transition to an extra-tropical system near Japan. Typhoon “Sinlaku” reached a peak intensity of category 4 before landfall in Taiwan where it caused severe flooding. In the following evolution, Sinlaku went along the Japanese East coast and over the base of the Falcon in Atsugi near Tokyo.

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