Flight of 990817 - Tuesday.


  • Daily summary.

  • Flight track, and selected parameters, at 15 second intervals are available as ascii files for anonymous ftp access on screamer.uwyo.edu in the pub/cs99 directory. A readme file for each day lists the parameters included in the data file.

    Gridded data for selected parameters is given in the files listed below. These were produced by combining measurements around 0.1° latitude and longitude intervals and around altitudes used in the COAMPS model. Values are given only where a minimum of 1 km flight path was availabe in the corresponding space. A key provides some indication of variability. A fuller description of the procedures is given in a description file.

  • Temerature (mean).
  • Winds.
  • Liquid water content from DMT100 probe (90 percentile values).
  • Liquid water content from PVM (90 percentile values).
  • Equivalent radius from PVM (90 percentile values).

  • VIS image with approximate flight location indicated.

  • Flight track in the study area.
  • Sample radar images.

  • Cloud top as seen from 6000' altitude - 1353Z. Glory visible.
  • Photo of cloud top from 2500' - 1400Z.
  • Photo of cloud top from 3200' - 1419Z.
  • View below cloud base at 127.15° long. in the (slightly) broken cloud area .
  • From 14000' some dark veins in the deck become visible.