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Advanced
Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR)
Type: Passive Microwave Radiometer
Principal
Investigator: Robbie Hood
Co-Investigators: Daniel
Cecil, Frank
LaFontaine
Platform
NASA ER-2
Temporal Resolution: 50 milliseconds
per sample
Spatial Resolution: sampling, 800 meters
at 20 km altitude
85.5 GHz, 640 meters at 20 km altitude
Data
Volume per Day: approximately 8 MB of
raw data and 64 MB of processed data
In-Field Quick Look Products: Brightness
Temperatures (TB)
Direct Products: TB data (swath) and
imagery (swath and grid)
Derived Products: Precipitation Index
Potential Products: Instantaneous rain
rate, inland/coastal surface water mapping
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers: Straight and level
over target areas, clear atmosphere over
calm ocean for calibration
Frequency of Maneuvers: At least once
per flight
Unfavorable Aircraft Maneuvers: Pitch
or roll greater than 2 degrees and pitch
or roll rates of greater than .5 degrees
per second
Unfavorable
Environmental: High output RF sources
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions: Over cloud-free
ocean near a radiosonde launch site/time
and AMSR-E overpass location/time
Desired
Data Sources: radiosonde data sets, passive
microwave satellite images, radar images,
visible and infrared satellite images
Mission
Planning Needs: Internet access
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Cloud
Radar System (CRS)
Type:
Radar
Documentation:
http://meso912.gsfc.nasa.gov/912/radar/
Principal
Investigator: Gerry Heymsfield
Co-Investigator(s): Lihua
Li, Lin
Tian, Larry Belcher
Platform: ER-2
Temporal
Resolution: 0.5 sec
Spatial Resolution: 0.15 km at surface
Data Volume Per Day: 2.5 GB
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Quick-look reflectivity
and velocity plots for
selected flight lines.
Direct
Products: Reflectivity, Doppler velocity,
and spectral width from
nadir and forward beams in Universal
Format. Software
readers for IDL will be provided.
Derived
Products: Ice content.
Potential Products: Vertical velocities,
path attenuation, surface
backscatter
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers:
Normally, straight and level flights
are desired. Special manuevers: a)
ER-2 roll (+/- 10 degrees) manuever
over water; pitch manuever if possible.
b) For calibration purpose, it would
be useful to have a back and forth
flight over clear ocean and land
near buoys. These flights would help
detect antenna mounting errors in
cross track direction.
Frequency
of Maneuvers: About 5 times during
experiment.
Unfavorable
Aircraft Maneuvers: ER-2: Pitch and
roll changes, heading changes
during flight line.
Unfavorable
Environmental Conditions: N/A
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions Clear or clouds
for hurricanes.
Aircraft to Perform Drop: ER-2
Desired Data Sources: All
Mission Planning Needs: Internet
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ER-2
Doppler Radar (EDOP)
Type:
Radar
Documentation:
http://meso912.gsfc.nasa.gov/912/radar/
Principal
Investigator: Gerry Heymsfield
Co-Investigator(s): Lihua
Li, Lin
Tian, Larry Belcher
Platform: ER-2
Temporal
Resolution: 0.5 sec
Spatial Resolution: 1.1 km at surface;
~250 m at 15 km altitude
Data Volume Per Day: 3.5 GB
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Quick-look reflectivity
and velocity plots for
selected flight lines.
Direct
Products: Reflectivity, Doppler velocity,
and spectral width from
nadir and forward beams in Universal
Format. Software
readers for IDL will be provided.
Derived
Products: Rainrate, ice content.
Potential Products: Vertical velocities,
rain rate, path attenuation, surface
backscatter
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers:
Normally, straight and level flights
are desired. Special manuevers: a)
ER-2 roll (+/- 10 degrees) manuever
over water; pitch manuever if possible.
b) For calibration purpose, it would
be useful to have a back and forth
flight over clear ocean and land
near buoys. These flights would help
detect antenna mounting errors in
cross track direction.
Frequency
of Maneuvers: About 5 times during
experiment.
Unfavorable
Aircraft Maneuvers: ER-2: Pitch and
roll changes, heading changes
during flight line.
Unfavorable
Environmental Conditions: N/A
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions Clear or clouds
for hurricanes.
Aircraft to Perform Drop: ER-2
Desired Data Sources: All
Mission Planning Needs: Internet
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High
Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR)
Type: Radiometer
Documentation
Principal
Investigator: Bjorn Lambrigtsen
Co-Investigator(s): Alan
Tanner, Evan
Fishbein, Eric Fetzer
Platform: ER-2
Temporal
Resolution: 1.1 sec
Spatial Resolution: 6 deg IFOV, 3 deg.
sample cell (2 km, 1km, at
nadir from 20 km)
Data
Volume Per Day: Raw data: up to 200 MB
(24.5 MB/hour)
Processed data: ~25 MB
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Preliminary calibrated
brightness temperatures
Direct Products: Definitive calibrated
brightness temperatures
Derived
Products: a) temperature profiles b)
humidity profiles
Potential Products: a) liquid water profiles
b) scattering parameters c) rain rates
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers:
a) Banking maneuver to each side and/or
180/360 degree turn (for repeat look
at same air mass from opposite scan sides).
Prefer simple atmosphere & surface
(calm ocean) b) Level circle over radiosonde
release sites; clear sky preferred. (If
second opportunity: prefer cloudy case.)
c) Exact repeat track over land after
land-fall missions; near-clear sky preferred
Frequency of Maneuvers: a) 1-2 times
during TCSP, near end middle/end
preferred
b) 1-2 times during TCSP
c) Once, covering all major over-land
mission tracks
Unfavorable
Aircraft Maneuvers: Rapid pitch or roll
maneuvers, steep descents
Unfavorable Environmental Conditions:
Turbulence
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions N/A
Desired
Data Sources: a) radiosondes
b) surface temperature & sea
state
c) high resolution GCM forecast/analysis
d) Aqua AIRS and AMSR-E (observations
and retrievals)
e) NOAA-16/17 AMSU-A/B (observations
and retrievals)
f) GOES images
Mission Planning Needs: Internet access
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Lightning
Instrument Package (LIP-ER-2)
Type:
Electric Field Mills, Conductivity
Probe
Principal
Investigator: Richard Blakeslee
Co-Investigator(s): Monte
Bateman,
Doug Mach
Platform:
ER-2
Temporal Resolution: 10 Hz
Spatial
Resolution: ~20m
Data Volume Per Day: 30-50 MB
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Quick looks at
atmospheric conductivity, electric
field components, and aircraft charge
Direct
Products: Atmospheric conductivity,
electric field components, and
aircraft charge
Derived
Products: Total lightning count & rates;
lightning statistics; storm
current output, storm charge structure
Potential Products: Quantified lightning
related
with precipitation, convective
mass/ice flux, latent heat, storm current output
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers:
Frequency of Maneuvers: 10 minutes
each once during the experiment
Unfavorable Aircraft Maneuvers:
Unfavorable Environmental Conditions:
Dropsondes
Requested Per Mission: N/A
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions N/A
Aircraft to Perform Drop: N/A
Desired
Data Sources: Passive microwave, aircraft
Radar, in-situ
Microphysics (NOAA P3s), TRMM
observations, ground-based lighting
(Costa
Rican and long-range NLDN
Mission
Planning Needs: Satellite Observation
Systems (GOES,
TRMM, AQUA, MODIS, etc.), Long Range
Lightning (NLDN), Costa Rican Lightning
Network data, satellite orbit predictions
Miscellaneous:
Real time access via the REVEAL system,
Real Time
Weather Display (provide mission decision
support)
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Microwave
Temperature Profiler (MTP -ER-2)
Type:
Microwave Radiometer
Principal
Investigator: M.J. Mahoney
Platform: ER-2
Temporal
Resolution: 10s(ER-2)
Spatial Resolution: 2km
Data
Volume Per Day: 1MB
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Uncalibrated curtain
plots of temperature field
along flight track
Direct
Products: Temperature profiles along
flight track
Derived
Products: Tropopause height, lapse rate
at aircraft, theta at
aircraft
Potential
Products: Isentrope fields
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers: Flights over radiosonde
launch sites desired. Prefer
shallow bank turns and slow ascent and
descent
rates (<1000
feet/min)
Frequency
of Maneuvers: Desire radiosondes launch
site overpasses as often
as possible
Unfavorable
Aircraft Maneuvers: steep banks and rapid
ascent or descent
Unfavorable
Environmental Conditions: None
Dropsondes
Requested Per Mission: Will take whatever
is provided
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions Clear air
Aircraft
to Perform Drop: ER-2
Desired
Data Sources: sondes
Mission
Planning Needs: Internet access
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MODIS
Airborne Simulator (MAS)
Type: Imaging Spectrometer
Principal
Investigator: Jeff Myers
Co-Investigator(s): Roseanne Dominguez
Platform: ER-2
Temporal
Resolution: Data collected continuously
at 6.25 scans per second during ER-2
flight (at altitude)
Spatial Resolution: 50 meter pixels at
nadir at 15 km altitude Swath width is
36 Km.
Data
Volume Per Day: 5-10 Gb per flight
In-Field Quick Look Products:
Quick-look (Level-0) JPEG images of straight
and level flight line tracks. Text file
of Nadir brightness temperature and radiance
for selected bands
Direct
Products:
Level-1B multispectral visible and infrared
imagery calibrated to at-sensor radiance.
Derived
Products: To be determined
Potential Products: To be determined
Preferred
Aircraft Maneuvers: Normally, straight
and level flights are desired.
Frequency of Maneuvers: N/A
Unfavorable
Aircraft Maneuvers: N/A
Unfavorable
Environmental Conditions: N/A
Dropsondes
Requested Per Mission: N/A
Preferred
Atmospheric Conditions Clear or clouds
for hurricanes.
Aircraft
to Perform Drop: N/A
Internet
access: Required for field workstations & posting
quick look products
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Research
Environment for Vehicle-Embedded Analysis
on Linux (REVEAL) Type:
Generic Instrument Interface and Investigator
support package
Principal
Investigator: Lawrence C. Freudinger
Co-Investigator: Carl E. Sorenson
Platform:
ER-2
Temporal Resolution: Multiple products
simultaneously at different rates (typically
10 Hz, 1Hz, & 0.1Hz
process rates)
In-Field
Quick Look Products: Quick looks at vehicle
sate, fuel temperature monitoring, various
environmental parameters.
Direct
Products: vehicle data bus interfaces,
vehicle time-space-position information,
sun angle calculations, and custom real-time
and post-flight data products. Provides
real-time data feeds to LIP displays
and TCSP Team.
Potential
Products: Generic instrument interface
for vehicle state data and onboard compute
services. Disruption tolerant gateway
for managing multiple data links; on-board
recorder service; dynamically configurable
on-board computing; Sensor Web development
and support.
Preferred
Aircraft maneuvers & Atmospheric Conditions: Not Applicable
Mission
Planning Needs: Reliable Internet access
for field deployment team; Time between
flights to download post-flight data
products.
Miscellaneous:
Providing real-time and post-flight mission
support items for TCSP as part of research
objective.
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Ticosonde-Aura/TCSP
2005 Project
Radiosonde
Program
Type: Atmospheric balloon soundings
Documentation: http://bocachica.arc.nasa.gov/Ticosonde_2005.html
Principal Investigators: Henry
Selkirk (BAER Institute)
Co-Investigator(s): Grace
Peng (Aerospace
Corporation); Walter Fernández Rojas (UCR); Paulo Manso and Werner Stolz (IMN);
Jorge Andrés Diaz (CENAT); Eladio Zárate (CRRH); Jorge Amador Astua (UCR)
Platform: Vaisala RS92-SGP; 500-g or
350-g meteorological balloons
Temporal Resolution: 4 launches per day;
2-sec resolution
Spatial Resolution: launches at Juan
Santamaria International Airport
Data Volume Per Day: < 1
Mb
In-Field Quick Look Products: http://bocachica.arc.nasa.gov/TICOSONDE/
Direct
Products: sounding files
CFH/Ozonesonde Program
Type: Atmospheric balloon soundings
Documentation: http://bocachica.arc.nasa.gov/Ticosonde_2005.html
Principal Investigators: Holger
Vömel (CU)
Co-Investigator(s): Henry
Selkirk (BAER
Inst.); Juan Valdés Gonzáles and Jessica
Valverde Canossa (UNA); Paulo Manso and
Werner Stolz (IMN); Jorge Andrés Diaz (CENAT)
Platform: Payload contains University
of Colorado Cryogenic Frostpoint Hygrometer
(CFH) with ECC ozonesonde along with
Vaisala RS92-SGP; 1200-g meteorological
balloon
Temporal Resolution: maximum 1 per day
Data Volume Per Day: < 1
Mb
TDL Water Vapor Program
Type: Atmospheric balloon soundings
Documentation: http://bocachica.arc.nasa.gov/Ticosonde_2005.html
Principal Investigators: Randy
May (MayComm
Inst., San Dimas, CA)
Co-Investigator(s): Henry
Selkirk (BAER
Inst.); Holger Vömel (CU); Paulo Manso and Werner Stolz (IMN); Jorge Andrés
Diaz (CENAT)
Platform: Instrument measures water vapor
with a tunable diode laser (TDL); 1000-g
meteorological balloon
Temporal Resolution: maximum 1 per day;
total of 5 during the project
Data Volume Per Day: < 1
Mb
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