LASE Science Flight 8 (Sept. 3) Easterly Wave
LASE had a very good flight around the easterly wave that we were sampling on the first of a three day consecutive sampling sequence. We went into the clouds immediately after takeoff to work with the Praia radar which precluded any LASE data. We were in mostly clouds until we got on the western most point of the larger pattern were we could see to the surface and found a low level dust layer below about 2.5 km. We ran out of it by about 17.5N and found the cleanest conditions of the mission on the eastern most leg of the pattern. It was very moist throughout the entire region below about 4 km. We only picked up an indication of dust on the 10 kft run back to Sal near 16N/23.5W. This was a successful flight with reasonable measurements around the north and eastern flanks of this wave. We are planning a second flight to sample this wave tomorrow.
