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Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Experiment (RAINEX) Science Summaries: 2005

17 Aug 2005 Flight Test 1: Test of Inflight Communications and Doppler Radar near Tampa over Open Water and Near Sea Breeze Convection
22 Aug 2005 Flight Test 2: Test of Inflight Communication and Cloud Physics Probes near Tampa over Open Water
23 Aug 2005 Flight Test 3: Test of Inflight Communications and Aircraft-to-Aircraft Data Transfer
25 Aug 2005 Katrina Day 1: Katrina's Landfall in Miami
26 Aug 2005 Katrina Day 2: Katrina Moves Across South Florida to the Gulf of Mexico
27 Aug 2005 Katrina Day 3: Two-Aircraft Mission in the Asymmetric Phase of Katrina
28 Aug 2005 Katrina Day 4: Two-Aircraft Mission in the Mature Phase of Katrina
29 Aug 2005 Katrina Day 5: Katrina's Landfall on the Gulf Coast
30 Aug 2005 Flight Test 4: Instrument and Communications Flight Test on NOAA 42
6 Sep 2005 Ophelia Day 1: Tropical Depression State--Increasing to Storm Stage
9 Sep 2005 Ophelia Day 4: Asymmetric Variable Structure as a Borderline Hurricane
11 Sep 2005 Ophelia Day 6: Hurricane Ophelia Nearly Stationary in the West Atlantic
19 Sep 2005 Rita Day 1: Rita as a Developing Tropical Storm
20 Sep 2005 Rita Day 2: Rita Moves Into the Gulf and Becomes a Hurricane
21 Sep 2005 Rita Day 3: Rita Becomes Category 5
22 Sep 2005 Rita Day 4: Concentric Eyewalls
23 Sep 2005 Rita Day 5: Asymmetric Structure