PRIOR FIELD CAMPAIGNS
NASA ER-2 Aircraft |
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Experiment |
Date |
Description |
| ATOST Bangor, ME |
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| THORpex Honolulu, HI |
Improvements in short range (up to 3 days), medium range (3-7 days) and extended range (two week) weather predictions | |
| TX2002 San Antonio, TX |
To assess MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) L1B and science products from the Terra and Aqua satellites | |
| Wallops 99 Wallops Is., VA |
AVIRIS piggyback + INTESA; characterize cirrus cloud properties, observe tropospheric trace gas evolution during regional pollution episodes. | |
| WINTEX Madison, WI |
WINTer EXperiment; to observe winter atmospheric conditions over different surface conditions (i.e., including snow, ice, clouds, water) and frontal boundary situations. | |
| CAMEX III Patrick AFB, FL |
Third Convection and Moisture Experiment; observed hurricanes and other tropical systems to improve development and trajectory modeling. Also included flights over a fully-instrumented ground station on Andros Island, Bahamas. | |
| Wallops 98 Wallops Is., VA |
Wallops Island, VA; AVIRIS piggyback; NAST-I's first in-flight validation (i.e., with the HIS instrument, ground-based AERI, and radiosondes); dedicated sortie for underflying the NOAA-15 satellite. |
Proteus Aircraft |
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Field Experiment |
Date |
Description |
| EAQUATE Cranfield, UK |
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| Italy-EAQUATE Naples, Italy |
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| CRYSTAL-FACE Key West, FL |
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment; flights over Southern Florida designed to investigate tropical cirrus cloud physical properties and formation processes; coincident with other aircraft (e.g., ER-2) and satellites (e.g., Terra/Aqua). | |
| IHOP Oklahoma City, OK |
International H2O Project 2002; flights over the Southern Great Plains with measurements to improve characterization of the four-dimensional distribution of water vapor and its application to improving the understanding and prediction of convection; coincident with other aircraft (e.g., DC-8) and satellites (e.g., Terra). | |
| CLAMS Wallops Is., VA |
Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites; flights focused on clear atmosphere and aerosol characterization; coincident with other aircraft (e.g., ER-2) and satellites (e.g., Terra). | |
| A-P CA/HI/Japan/AK |
Asian-Pacific Experiment; flights over the Pacific, Orient, and Arctic; coincident with ground-, balloon-, aircraft-, and space-based meteorology and chemistry measurements. | |
| AFWEX Stillwater, OK |
ARM-FIRE Water Vapor Experiment; CART site overflights to characterize upper tropospheric water vapor and clear air observation validation; underflight of Terra satellite. | |
| WV-IOP Stillwater, OK |
Water Vapor Intensive Operating Period; CART site overflights to characterize upper tropospheric water vapor and clear air observation validation; underflight of Terra satellite. | |
| C-IOP Stillwater, OK |
Cloud Intensive Operation Period; first science flights on Proteus; CART site overflights to characterize cloud properties and clear air observation validation. |
