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Keyword: Citation
Mission News: Snow on the Ground, Satellites Overhead
Post Date:
02/17/2012
Summary:
Although the excitement of the lake-effect snow last weekend was welcome, in contrast this week was somewhat benign. There were a number of good opportunities identified in the model forecasts that didn’t really materialize, leaving us with a number of, although marginal, still useful events.
Chris Kidd is a hydrologist at Goddard Space Flight Center. This week he is at the CARE site in Ontario and writes to us about this week's flights.
Although the excitement of the lake-effect snow last weekend was welcome, in contrast this week was somewhat benign. There were a number of good opportunities identified in the model forecasts that didn’t really materialize, leaving us with a number of, although marginal, still useful events.
Image: Ground Radar and Citation at GCPEx
Image Caption:
The dual-frequency radar at the CARE site Friday, February 17th. The little spec in the sky is the Citation aircraft flying overhead.
Credits:
NASA / Chris Kidd
Article: GCPEx Flight Summaries
Summary will be updated on Fridays through the remainder of the campaign.
Latest Update: 2/29/12
Mission News: Uncooperative Mother Nature
Post Date:
01/23/2012
Summary:
It is January 23rd and once again Mother Nature has shown us what she thinks of our field campaign plans…..and our ability to plan and execute based on a prediction of what she will throw our way. Kind of bizarre really; we came up here to sample strong Canadian snow storms, and today we ended up targeting a heavy rain event. Of course, we can plan -- as we did -- but that doesn’t mean things will work out the way one expects them to.
Walt Petersen is the Ground Validation Scientist for GPM, based at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. He manages all of GPM's ground validation operations including GCPEx, and today writes to us from the CARE site in Ontario.
Image: UND Citation Aircraft from MC3E
Image Caption:
The UND Citation aircraft was used during the MC3E field campaign to make precipitation measurements using microphysical probes.
Credits:
NASA
