Snapshots from the Coastal Stratus 99 field project.

All images included here are reduced in size and detail from the original. If anyone would like a better copy of any of these images, please let GV know (vali@uwyo.edu).

Some pix from the first few days in Corvallis.

  • Temporary home 1.
  • Temporary home 2.
  • Plugged in. Connected ???
  • Sure we know what to do!
  • Some things work.
  • LVI figuring out
  • Bob's //kingfisher finally alive.
  • Swarn getting into the swing of things.
  • Glenn straightens things out..
  • Mark looking things up.

    • Radar calibration - 8/8/99.

  • On the ramp for radar calibration.
  • The steerable reflector plate in place.
  • Sam checking things out.
  • Swarn is the corner-reflector aligner.
  • Mark pre-flighting for tomorrow.

    • How do we work? - 8/11/99

  • Which knob do I turn????
  • "Do-Everything-Glenn"
  • Captain Mark on the radio
  • Preparing to do ILS landing
  • "Radar Marshall" Sam
  • Mat is the "CALIBRATOR" today.
  • Swarn is computing the impossible.
  • Prof. Chai checking model outputs
  • Mat March mans the tug
  • Hermann Gerber's LWC data look good

    • A celebration - August 15, 1999.

  • Larry Irving has been with the group for 33 years today and this is his last field project (he is retiring soon). He took me (GV) to Elk Mountain for the first time in the small Tucker, and from then till now were together on who knows how many field projects. There were many others I was not on. And all the work of building the systems for the KingAir, and for lab, and everything else .... THANKS!

    • The star and the crew

  • The star of the show
  • The crew - August 16, 1999

    • More hard work ahead

  • Larry concentrates well.
  • Mark prepares for another takeoff.

    • Visitors

  • Hermann Gerber heading back home with some good data in the bag.
  • Roger Samelson (Oregon State U.) going on wind-exploration flight..
  • Mark goes through the safety briefing. .
  • William Thomson, Tracy Haack (NRL - Monterey) and Marcin Szumowski (DRI)

    • The routine

  • Bob reports on the flight just completed.
  • Wash and chat
  • Who????
  • Eleazar Gutierez pulls out the KingAir - gently.
  • Mat March keeps the tanks full, along with all kinds of other help.
  • Early morning coffee and bs

    • Four weeks into the project.

  • Computers give Sam plenty of trouble, but he wins in the end.
  • This is our PVM's first project and all went well.
  • LVI's best cup
  • Mark's best cup
  • Is it precise enough?
  • Larry shot this one.