FLIGHT
NO.
|
DEPARTURE (UTC)
|
ARRIVAL (UTC)
|
HRS
|
MISSION
SCIENTIST
|
REMARKS
|
|
DATE
|
TIME
|
SITE
|
DATE
|
TIME
|
SITE
|
| TF01 |
06/26/01 |
1530 |
BJC |
06/26/01 |
1730 |
BJC |
2:00 |
Bjorn Stevens |
- First test flight from Broomfield.
|
| TF02 |
06/29/01 |
1718 |
BJC |
06/29/01 |
1951 |
BJC |
2:33 |
Don Lenschow |
- Second test flight from Broomfield.
|
| FF01 |
07/05/01 |
1708 |
BJC |
07/05/01 |
2002 |
NZY |
2:54 |
Don Lenschow |
- Ferry flight to North Island.
|
| TF03 |
07/07/01 |
1906 |
NZY |
07/07/01 |
2157 |
NZY |
2:51 |
Don Lenschow |
- First test flight from North Island Naval Air Station.
|
| RF01 |
07/10/01 |
0628 |
NZY |
07/10/01 |
1518 |
NZY |
8:50 |
Don Lenschow |
- very homogeneous
- excellent entrainment case study
|
| RF02 |
07/11/01 |
0650 |
NZY |
07/11/01 |
1544 |
NZY |
8:54 |
Don Lenschow |
- drizzling profusely
- very large radar echos reached the surface during the entire flight
- evidence of mesoscale variability
|
| RF03 |
07/13/01 |
0635 |
NZY |
07/13/01 |
1434 |
NZY |
7:59 |
Stevens/Lenschow |
- steady and homogeneous
- moderate drizzle throughout
- shallower PBL, stronger winds
- in someways intermediate between RF02 and RF01
|
| RF04 |
07/17/01 |
0632 |
NZY |
07/17/01 |
1529 |
NZY |
8:57 |
Lenschow/Stevens |
- much deeper layer with deep clouds
- modest drizzle
- very large liquid water contents in a high drop concentration environment
- relatively moist free-troposphere
- somewhat weaker temperature inversion
|
| RF05 |
07/18/01 |
0629 |
NZY |
07/18/01 |
1420 |
NZY |
7:51 |
Chris Bretherton |
- Fairly homogeneous, thinner stratocumulus
- Little drizzle
- Substantial above-cloud moisture and ozone variability.
- Intermediate between RF01 and RF04
|
| RF06 |
07/20/01 |
0612 |
NZY |
07/20/01 |
1509 |
NZY |
8:57 |
Gabor Vali |
- drizzle in widespread area
- first half of flight overview of evolution of drizzle patch
- second half of flight focused on the change from more intense drizzle
to no drizzle
|
| RF07 |
07/24/01 |
0634 |
NZY |
07/24/01 |
1540 |
SAN |
9:06 |
Stevens/Savic-Jovcic |
- deep clouds with prevalent drizzle
- lots of structure
- excellent drizzle-entrainment case study
|
| RF08 |
07/25/01 |
2009 |
SAN |
07/26/01 |
0516 |
NZY |
9:07 |
Lenschow/Stevens |
- uniform cloud tops
- considerable drizzle, fairly uniform, but more in NE than SW
- early in flight, clouds were more cellular
- later, cloud layer became more uniform
|
| RF09 |
07/27/01 |
1900 |
NZY |
07/28/01 |
0342 |
NZY |
8:42 |
Gabor Vali |
- uniform cloud field
- very little drizzle (least of any case?)
- high aerosol concentrations
- comparisons with RF06 and RF08 will be useful
|
| RF10 |
07/28/01 |
1956 |
NZY |
07/28/01 |
2303 |
NZY |
3:07 |
Blomquist/Lenschow |
|
| FF02 |
07/30/01 |
1737 |
NZY |
07/30/01 |
2236 |
BJC |
4:59 |
Blomquist/Lenschow |
- Ferry flight to Broomfield.
- Second CO2 test flight.
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