# In-situ Measurements of Ocean Surface Waves from Air-Deployed Directional Wave Spectra Drifters

## Team Members

### **Lagrangian Drifter Laboratory (LDL), Scripps Inst. of Oceanography (SIO),UC San Diego (UCSD)**

- Dr. Luca Centurioni
- Dr. Verena Hormann

### **MRV Systems, LLC**

- Dr. Neil Bogue

### **Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)**

- Dr. Steven Jayne

### **NOAA/AOML**

- Dr. Rick Lumpkin

### **US Naval Academy, Oceanography Department**

- Dr. Capt. Elizabeth Sanabia

### **Univ. of Miami/CSTARS**

- Dr. Charles L. Vincent

## Team Objectives

Provide data needed for understanding the storm dynamics important to coastal impacts through targeted observations of storm surge, inundation, rain and winds.

Air-deployed sensors for flexibility in data gathering relative to modeling needs

Mixed-layer data to provide vertical structure and aid in analysis of dynamics

Simultaneous offshore wave and sea level pressure measurements

Scientific analysis and interpretation of the data

Data-model comparison

## Newest Updates

### [Centurioni](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/teams/centurioni)

**October 16, 2023**

[**Project Scientists Deploy Wave Buoys from NRL P3**](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/project-scientists-deploy-wave-buoys-nrl-p3)

As part of the NHCI response to Hurricane Lee, researchers in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1) airdropped wave buoys from a P3 aircraft on Thursday, September 14th, 2023.

### [Centurioni](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/teams/centurioni)

**October 7, 2022**

[**Directional Wave Spectra Drifter Array Measures Massive Waves on Hurricane Ian’s Approach**](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/directional-wave-spectra-drifter-array-measures-massive-waves-on-hurricane-ians-approach)  
by Martha Schönau, Luca Centurioni, Steve Jayne, and Elizabeth Sanabia.