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UND Citation Aircraft OLYMPEX Data
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Microphysics Instruments
Measurement King Cloud liquid water PMS 2D-C/2D-S Cloud and precipitation particle spectra HVPS-3 (2 probes) Precipitation spectra to large sizes Orthogonal mounting CPI Cloud particle imager, High resolution ice crystal and cloud-droplet imaging CSI Cloud Spectrometer and Impactor, Total Water (ACE) CDP Cloud Droplet Probe, cloud particle spectra Nevzorov Total water content Icing probe Supercooled water
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Instrument Performance
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Flight Summary Table Date (UTC) Mission Number 11/12/15 OLYMPEX-1
11/12/15 OLYMPEX-1 Steps DOW-NPOL, then offshore 11/13/15 OLYMPEX-2 Spirals near DOW 11/14/15 OLYMPEX-3 Steps on NPOL radial offshore 11/18/15 OLYMPEX-4 Descents/climbs on NPOL radial offshore 11/23/15 OLYMPEX-5 OLYMPEX-6 Step profile offshore. Wide variety of crystals 11/24/15 OLYMPEX-7 Touch and Go profiling at Fairchild airport OLYMPEX-8 Profiling of developing cumulus offshore 12/1/15 OLYMPEX-9 Conducted stacked legs over NPOL 12/3/15 OLYMPEX-10 Conducted satellite underpass at 15:22 UTC 12/4/15 OLYMPEX-11 Early morning flight with DC8 and ER2 OLYMPEX-12 Sampled developing clouds off the coast 12/5/15 OLYMPEX-13 Sampled between NPOL and east of the DOW 12/10/15 OLYMPEX-14 Spiral up offshore, steps on DOW radial 12/12/15 OLYMPEX-15 Descents/climbs offshore 12/13/15 OLYMPEX-16 Steps/descending ramp in deep cloud offshore OLYMPEX-17 Steps in shallow clouds offshore 12/18/15 OLYMPEX-18 Steps/Spirals DOW-NPOL in deep cloud OLYMPEX-19 Steps offshore, then profile NPOL-DOW 12/19/15 OLYMPEX-20 Offshore convective cloud sampling
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Data Processing ADPAA – Airborne Data Processing And Analysis Delene, D. J., Airborne Data Processing and Analysis Software Package, Earth Science Informatics, 4(1), 29-44, , URL:
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Data QC/QA Quality Control: Calibrations pre/post field
In-field performance checks Flight notes on instrument performance In-field processing Quality Assurance: Calibrations applied Missing value codes inserted Operability/performance edits Hand edits Post-projecting processing
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Archive Data Images Size Distributions Summary Files
2DS, 2DC, HVPS-3 (2) Size Distributions Imaging probes CDP Summary Files ASCII NASA Format
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Analysis Ryan Patnaude Joe O’Brien Samantha Carr
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Patnaude – 12/3/15 Case Study
December 3, 2015 Case Study Data Report Leg 11, 16:15 – 16:21
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O’Brien – Particle Reorientation
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Carr – HVPS-3 Intercomparison
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