Photo courtesty of Vanda Grubisic, DRI
University of Wyoming
COWvex 2006
Cloudsat Over Wyoming
Validation EXperiment
October 26 2006 - January 15 2007(??)
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Photo courtesty of Vanda Grubisic, DRI |
University of Wyoming
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| Date | Flight Number | Status | Times (UTC) | Hours | Notes |
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| January 13 | Flight 11 | First flight with Wyoming Cloud Lidar, flew line from Rawlins to Boysen, shallow clouds, very little liquid water, no known problems | 1858-2144 | 2.9 | |
| January 6 | Flight 10 | Flight over Shirley Basin, very windy, blowing snow on ground, echoes extending to ground, but little or no precipitation reaching ground? no known problems | 1927-2103 | 1.6 | |
| January 4 | Flight 9 | Flight aborted, radar quit working, unable to restart it | 1845-1945 | 1.1 | |
| December 19 | Flight 8 | Flight over northwestern CO, deep nimbostratus clouds, advecting along line, no known problems | 1845-2214 | 3.6 | |
| December 16 | Flight 7 | Flight over western SD, fairly thin, weak reflecting clouds, at times optically non-existent, no known problems | 1830-2215 | 3.9 | |
| December 5 | Flight 6 | Flight over northern Wyoming near Bighorns, Orographic (??) clouds close to ground, end of flight did ground circles for radar, V-channel dropped early in flight using 500 ns pulse. | 1840-2146 | 3.1 | debrief |
| November 28 | Flight 5 | Flight over Guernsey and South towards Cheyenne, very homogeneous stratus clouds from ~15 kft to 22 kft, max reflectivities ~10 dBZ. No known problems with data system, instruments or radar. | 1926-2126 | 2.1 | |
| November 28 | Flight 4 | Flight over Western Nebraska, reasonably deep stratus/nimbostratus, widespread, tops > 23 kft in places. Data system and radar worked well. V-channel dropped using 500 ns pulse. | 0813-1115 | 3.2 | |
| November 14 | Flight 3 | Flight over western South Dakota. Deep Ns, precipitation reaching ground, bright band evident, good case. Data System died on return ferry, two data files. | 1826-2150 | 3.5 | debrief |
| November 12 | Flight 2 | first night flight, clouds not as deep as expected, problems with the V-channel on the WCR in 500 ns mode, needed to go to 250 ns pulses to eliminate problem, no other known problems, Tamdar not working | 0812-1015 | 2.2 | |
| November 3 | Flight 1 | Good first research flight, some problems with the V-channel on the WCR, needed to go to 250 ns pulses to eliminate problem | 1933-2058 | 1.5 | debrief |
| October 26 | Test 1 | Problems with WCR v-channel first half of flight, successfully tested sat overpass prediction software, conducted ground circles for radar, limited cloud data at beginning of flight | 1801-1919 | 1.3 | debrief |
| Total Flight Hours | 30.0 of 35.0 | ||||