19Sep2010 14Z Daily GRIP Telecon
Flight Date:
Sun, 09/19/2010
19 Sep 2010
GRIP (FLL-JSC-DFRC) 14Z Daily Telecon / Webinar
Participants
FLL Team –Marilyn Vasquez, Ed Zipser, Cerese Albers, Michele Garrett, Instrument and Forecast teams
Telecon : Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Rich Blakeslee, Michael Goodman, Scott Braun, Gerry Heymsfield, Bud Mein
Global Hawk Report
- Aircraft – green
- No fly day
- NCAR Droposonde team team to arrive today
ATC Radio is repaired
- Droposonde – red
Dropsonde people returning to DFRC on Sunday and hope to perform vibration and ground test on Monday. Fly test flights on Wednesday.
Re-fly of Low Altitude test flight and high altitude flights in one day. Must be a weekday and have a chase plane.
- HAMSR – green.
- LIP - green
- HIWRAP – yellow
- Some noise in 2-channels in the Ka band
- Analyzing data
WB-57 Report
- Aircraft - green
- HIRAD – green
- HIRAD removed from NASA926– but this is standard procedure since no targets in range. N926 to be used this week for pilot procedure
- WB-57 approved to extend flights until at least 30September
- Science team headed back to HSV waiting for storms to approach
- NAST-I still delayed – probably will not take part.
DC8 Report
- Aircraft– green.
- Today is a No Fly Day
- Alert in the system for a suitecase to STX – decision to be made at 16Z telecon (based upon outlook – this is unlikely for Monday)
- Nothing promising on the horizon in the Caribbean
- LASE – green.
- LARGE – green.
- APR2 – green.
- DAWN – green.
- Microphysics – green
- CSI cannot fly for the duration of GRIP
- MMS – green.
- Dropsonde – green.
Science
- Work has begun on preparation of charts for NASA HQ briefing.
- Need platform scientist reports for GH
- This week consider flying intense localized systems – non-tropical cyclone but good convective events. Test the GH in these convective systems with lightning
- Tuesday is the last possible day to suitcase to STX
- Not considering flying a one-shot into a single storm
- Thursday-Friday would be the last two flight days if a storm is flyable. This decision would be made on Wednesday
- DC8 in Atlantic: If no Genesis or Rapid Intensification then look for Dust – possibly a 4-5 hr mission to satisfy LASE, LARGE and DAWN
- GH extension for LIP, HAMSR, HIWRAP? - If nothing on the horizon on 24Sep then these instruments may end their participation in the experiment
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