Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (tc4) at UW-Madison SSEC/CIMSS

The ER-2 took off this morning and a flight is in progress.

HOT OFF THE PRESS: The WB-57 had a successful 2 hour test flight yesterday.

Current plan is to reintegrate all the instruments today and tomorrow and have a 2nd checkout flight Tuesday. If that is successful then the WB-57 would head down to Costa Rica on Friday the 3rd and we could get as many as 3 very important science flights on the 5th, 6th and 8th. The transit flight back home is on the 9th and they are talking about having both planes fly back together as far as possible before splitting in different directions to go home.

– Steve

DC-8 Flight Plan 2007-07-29

Attached is the ER-2 flight plan for July 29.

- Steve Platnick and Paul Newman

ER-2 Flight plan 2007-07-29

Here is the draft flight plan for tomorrow (Saturday, 28 July 2007).

Paul

DC-8 Flight Plan 2007-07-28

SHIS had another successful flight today with pre-flight and Engineering figures posted on the SHIS web site. Only the ER2 flew today with DC8 grounded due to a lightning strike on the flight on Tuesday. The goal of this flight was a CALIPSO/CloudSat comparison with the ER2. Due to thunderstorms in near San Jose the flight returned early, missing the CALIPSO/CloudSat overpass. The ER2 pilot reported a very thin cirrus layer, about 1 km thick, at 46,000 feet (~14 km). The Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL) worked well. This will be a good case to run S-HIS cloud retrievals on thin cirrus. Unfortunately the cloud radar failed at the begining of the flight so no radar data is available. 

From Paul Newman

ER-2 Flight Plan 2007-07-25

Subject: DC-8 update Date: 7/24/07 Time: 11:56 AM
Dear All,

There will be no DC-8 flight tomorrow (Wednesday, 25 July 2007). More details, including aircraft access, to follow.

Regards,

Kathy
on behalf of Mark and Paul

Attached is the ER-2 flight plan for today’s flight (Tuesday, 24 July 2007).

- Paul

ER-2 Flight Plan 2007-07-22

Attached is the preliminary ER-2 flight report for Sunday, 22 July.

Thanks, Paul

ER-2 Flight Report 2007-07-22

Dear All,

Here is the flight report for the DC-8 science flight conducted from Costa Rica on 21 July 2007.

This report also will be posted on the TC4 web site - http://www.espo.nasa.gov/tc4/

Regards,

Kathy
on behalf of Mark and Paul

DC-8 Flight Report: 2007-07-21