21Sep2010 14Z Daily GRIP Telecon
21 Sep 2010
GRIP (FLL-JSC-DFRC) 14Z Daily Telecon / Webinar
Participants
FLL Team – Marilyn Vasques, Gerry Heymsfield, Dave Zelinksky, Michele Garrett, Instrument and Forecast teams
Telecon
Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Rich Blakeslee, Michael Goodman, Scott Braun, Bud Meins, Tim Miller
Global Hawk Report
· Aircraft – green
o No fly day
· Droposonde – red
o Dropsonde failed vibration test yesterday. Having problems with release spring.
o Best chance to fly science will be Friday but possibly won’t include dropsondes.
o Test flight will be delayed at least a day. Don’t have the assembly on the aircraft yet.
o Only had two flights with precipitation. Will make decision tomorrow to put GH on alert for Friday.
o 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 – green
WB-57 Report
· Aircraft - green
- No fly day
· HIRAD – green
o HIRAD removed from NASA926– but this is standard procedure since no targets in range. N926 to be used this week for pilot procedure
o Crew ready to meet in Tampa. Just looking for a storm to fly.
o WB-57 approved to extend flights until at least 30September
o Science team headed back to HSV waiting for storms to approach
· NAST-I still delayed – probably will not take part.
DC8 Report
· Aircraft– green
o Ready for full science flight 21 Sept. Tuesday to target PGI46 for 9 hours. Planned full science flight Wed. returning to FLL Wed. evening. Planned takeoff from STX Tues. & Wed. at 16Z. This will end the GRIP Mission with the DC8.
o No plan to fly with GH on Friday.
o Pack DC8 on Thursday and Friday.
· LASE – green
· LARGE – green
· APR2 – green
· DAWN – green
· Microphysics – green
o 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
· Not considering flying a one-shot into a single storm
· 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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