WINTEX OBJECTIVES

1) NPOESS EDR Validation (Smith, Menzel, Revercomb)

Payload: NAST-I, -M, MAS, S-HIS; AERI, Lidar, radiosondes

Target: Cross frontal boundaries for variant air masses

Scene Type: clear and cloudy

Time of Day: 00 and 12 UTC data collection

2) Cloud Detection/Properties over snow/ice background (Smith, Menzel, Ackerman, Revercomb)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, S-HIS

Target: Ice and snow background scenes

Scene type: thin cirrus, thick scattered to broken cloud

Time of Day: Day and night

3) Cloud Detection/Properties in presence of changing Ecosystem properties (Menzel, Ackerman, Smith, Revercomb)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, S-HIS

Target: bare ground, plowed fields, greening pastures, etc.

Scene type: thin cirrus, broken cloud

Time of Day: Daytime

4) MAS, NAST-I, S-HIS absolute calibration comparisons (Revercomb, Smith, Moeller)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, S-HIS

Target: Lake Michigan or Superior

Scene type: open water ("warm" scene), thick cloud (cold scene)

Time of Day: Day or night

5) Day/Night Fog Detection (snowmelt conditions) (Smith, Revercomb)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, NAST-M, S-HIS

Target: snowmelt regions for fog formation

Scene type: low fog caused by warm airflow over snow surface

Time of Day: Day and night

6) NOAA-15 underflights (Van Delst, Menzel, Revercomb)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, NAST-M, S-HIS

Target: Lake Michigan or Superior with NOAA-15 overhead

Scene type: open water, clear sky

Time of Day Daytime

7) Overfly Ground based Instruments for Cloud Studies (Menzel, Revercomb, Eloranta)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, S-HIS, AERI, HSRL, VIL, Classonde

Target: Deployment sites of ground-based instruments

Scene type: optically thin ice cloud (for optical depth profiles from HSRL)

Time of Day: Day, night (for Re from HSRL)

8) SGP CART Site Overflight (Smith, Revercomb)

Payload: MAS, NAST-I, NAST-M, S-HIS

Target: SGP CART instrumented ground site in OK

Scene type: clear skies

Time of Day: Daytime

9) Other

CO Monitoring (Mcmillan, Knuteson)

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