22Sep2010 14Z Daily GRIP Telecon
22 Sep 2010
GRIP (FLL-JSC-DFRC) 14Z Daily Telecon / Webinar
Participants
FLL Team – Marilyn Vasques, Gerry Heymsfield, Michele Garrett, Instrument and Forecast teams
Telecon
Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Michael Goodman, Scott Braun, Bud Meins, Tim Miller, Steve Cole, Shelley Baccus
Global Hawk Report
· Aircraft – green
o No fly day
o Thursday 23 Sept. 15Z takeoff (8:00 AM PST), maximum flight time of 26 hrs. Target is PGI46L. 9 hr. ferry both ways.
· Droposonde – red
o Dropsonde test possibly Monday with first potential test flight on Tuesday.
o Potential flight latter part of next week if something is of interest.
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
· 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 Keeping an eye on Invest AL95 track. Possible flight on Saturday from Tampa.
o WB-57 approved to extend flights until at least 30September
· NAST-I still delayed – probably will not take part.
DC8 Report
· Aircraft– green
o Ready for full science flight 22 Sept. Wed. to continue target of PGI46. Planned takeoff from STX. Wed. at 16Z. Landing in FLL around 7pm EST. 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. Transit home Saturday.
· 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.
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