SUCCESS Campaign
Flight #96-107

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23 April 1996
Track #05


"Wave cloud over Colorado"
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23 April 1996
Track #09


"Roll clouds over Colorado"

R: 2.15 microns
G: 0.94 microns
B: 0.65 microns
Summary Information
Date: April 23, 1996
ER-2 Flight Number: 96-107
Location: Oklahoma CART Site, Kansas
Principle Investigator: Dr. Brian Toon (NASA Ames)
Additional Sensors: B&W_6"_RC-10, MIR, CLS, RAMS, HIS, EOC

Level-1B Processing Information
Level-1B Data Version: #10
Calibration Type: Final
Calibration Version: SUCCESS_Ames 1.0
Temperature Adjustment: No
Status: Final Calibration Done

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Level-1B Browse Imagery
Straight Line Flight Tracks: 12
Scanlines Processed: 31575
Solar Azimuth and Zenith Angles
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Lat/Lon ranges are for the BEG-END scanline nadir pixels.
Flight
Track
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Image
Cirrus
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Time_Span
(GMT)
Heading
(Deg)
Lat_Range
(Deg_N)
Lon_Range
(Deg_W)
Length
(Scanlines)
1 STD CIR 18:27-18:42 282 41.06-41.45 104.03-106.37 5914
2 STD CIR 18:45-18:58 180 41.31-39.85 106.58-106.60 4838
3 STD CIR 19:00-19:02 37 39.79-40.00 106.39-106.20 817
4 STD CIR 19:03-19:08 21 40.07-40.63 106.16-105.87 1968
5 STD CIR 19:10-19:14 157 40.64-40.20 105.61-105.36 1595
6 STD CIR 19:15-19:22 204 40.11-39.45 105.36-105.75 2428
7 STD CIR 19:26-19:31 14 39.65-40.23 106.00-105.81 1911
8 STD CIR 19:34-19:36 183 40.24-40.01 106.02-106.03 767
9 STD CIR 19:37-19:44 109 39.91-39.68 105.94-104.97 2528
10 STD CIR 19:45-19:49 194 39.55-39.07 104.88-105.03 1676
11 STD CIR 19:52-20:04 26 39.14-40.36 105.25-104.46 4434
12 STD CIR 20:08-20:15 203 40.41-39.64 104.71-105.11 2699
Standard Browse Images 01 through 12 in sequence
Cirrus Detection Browse Images 01 through 12 in sequence

Level-1B HDF Data Distribution Point
NASA GSFC Earth Sciences (GES) Data Center
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Additional Information
The objective of this mission was to observe wave clouds over the front range and contrails during overpass of the NOAA-14 satellite.

Take-off time was 1730 UTC and landing 2130 UTC. ER-2 flew to approximately 41:22N 106:19W and arrived at approximately 1839 UTC. Mission was to overfly mountain wave clouds and contrails in and out of the principal plane of the sun. Pilot was to visually locate the clouds. Coorindate flight track with ground track of the NOAA-14 satellite between 2031 and 2033 UTC. Track of satellite was approximately 40:36:20N 107:18:00W; 41:19.5N 107:34.8N; 41:59:51 107:48:00W; 42:39:09 108:00:00. The ER-2 aircraft flew parallel to NOAA-14 track while south of Denver.

The pilot reported the ER-2 flew over a long cirrus cloud that extended for about 100 miles downwind of Larimer. This cirrus appeared to be rolling and turbulent. Commercial aircraft reported wave clouds. Could visually see roll clouds out side cockpit window, put could not see them when over the clouds due to cirrus above of the wave clouds. No persistant contrails, ER-2 overflew some non persistant contrails. Flew south of Denver to get contrails and roll clouds. Flew satellite overpass while south of Denver.


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