1. DIAMET September IOP period (Cranfield)
November –December IOP period (detachment to Exeter)
Summer 2012 IOP period (Cranfield)
Extra Spring 2012 IOP period ???????

2. November –December IOP period (detachment to Exeter)
November 21st – December 15th
Mon 21st, Tuesday 22nd - Test Flight Days
Wed 23rd – Pack up
Thurs 24th – detachment to Exeter – possible science flight day
Wed 15th Dec – transit back to Cranfield – Science flying day too

3. Key:-

5. DIAMET-FAAM-MetO-Agency booking – Southgate Mercure Hotel, Exeter

6. DIAMET EXETER detachment, Nov 23 -Dec 15, 2011

7. DIAMET EXETER detachment, Nov 23 -Dec 15, 2011
Hotel Mercure,
Southgate Hotel Exeter
Southernhay East, Exeter EX1 1QF
Met Office
FitzRoy Road, Exeter Devon EX1 3PB
Exeter Airport
DIAMET EXETER detachment, Nov 23 -Dec 15, 2011

8. Hotel Mercure,

9. DIAMET features of interest
Thin strips of mid-level PV
Along-front structures
Sting jets
Slantwise convection
WCBs and embedded bands – pseudo-Lagrangian approach
Tropopause folds
Mesoscale cyclones
Air-sea fluxes
Along-front and across-front correlation (for DA)
Microphysics measurements within radar coverage
- Need to design flight modules to accomplish each objective
- Fit modules together to generate sortie briefs for each flight
Already have successful sortie briefs from T-Nawdex flights in Nov 2009
B483 (03/11/09), B486 (13/11/09) , B488 (23/11/09)