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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 00-065
Date: 1 March 2000
Location: Oklahoma CART Site
Deployment: WISC T2000
Principal Investigator: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: AirMISR, CLS, RC-10 (6" BW), SHIS, VIS
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
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Flight Tracks: 15
Scanlines: 75078
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Lat/Lon ranges are for the BEG-END scanline nadir pixels
Flight
Track		 Time Span
(GMT)		 Heading
(Deg)		 Lat Range
(Deg North)		 Lon Range
(Deg West)		 Length
(scanlines)		 Altitude
(meters)
1 16:12-16:33 225 42.87-41.12 90.31-92.56 8046 ~20000
2 16:33-16:55 222 41.12-39.31 92.56-94.71 8047 ~20000
3 16:55-17:07 225 39.29-38.39 94.73-95.98 4398 ~20000
4 17:07-17:19 228 38.38-37.49 95.98-97.18 4385 ~20000
5 17:26-17:40 195 37.37-35.87 97.26-97.72 5220 ~20000
6 17:46-18:02 10 35.72-37.44 97.76-97.24 5863 ~20000
7 18:05-18:08 184 37.40-36.98 96.96-97.00 1390 ~20000
8 18:10-18:21 234 36.82-36.14 97.12-98.33 3919 ~20000
9 18:27-18:37 57 35.99-36.63 98.60-97.46 3731 ~20000
10 18:43-18:53 238 36.77-36.15 97.21-98.32 3582 ~20000
11 19:00-19:11 53 36.00-36.71 98.55-97.32 4049 ~20000
12 19:12-19:24 41 36.74-37.76 97.27-96.14 4584 ~20000
13 19:24-19:36 42 37.76-38.75 96.14-95.00 4572 ~20000
14 19:36-19:54 41 38.76-40.18 95.00-93.28 6646 ~20000
15 19:54-20:12 45 40.18-41.58 93.28-91.49 6646 ~20000
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Objective and Summary:

Take-off was at 1543 UTC. ER-2 landed at 2052 UTC.

ER-2 flew from MSN to Oklahoma CART site, aligning parallel (20°rees off-nadir) to TERRA suborbital track on a line running 14° heading (37° 26'N, 97° 14.8'W to 35° 47'N, 97° 45'W) with Central Facility in the center. Much cirrus present at Northern half of this line (both up and back segment). Some mid level water cloud (cellular) reported as well. The ER-2 then flew up and down cirrus level wind (235 heading) on a 110km line with the CF located about 25km from the eastern end (36deg 42'N, 97deg 20'W to 36deg 07'N, 98deg 22'W). Variant sky cover during these runs, from clear to water cloud with very thin cirrus above. From CLS lidar data, it appeared that cirrus particles had seeded water cloud development below. Two complete cycles flown (four overpasses of CF). Broke off pattern at 1910 UTC to return to Madison after cirrus began to fall apart. Mid level water cloud was observed during the flight by the ground based instruments.

Learjet flew short (~25km) legs attempting to sample cirrus. ATC prevented them from getting much of the data they wished to obtain. Reportedly they were sampling cloud at 1900 UTC.

Coincident TERRA/ER-2 data at 1752 UTC (20° view angle) about 15nm south of CF. Coincident ER-2 and Learjet measurements. CLS data suggests that ice particles from the cirrus was seeding the development of water cloud below.

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Flight 00-065

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