HIAPER Progressive Science Mission

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HIAPER Progressive Science Mission (22 November-
23 December, 2005)
Daybreak before take off 2005-12-21
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Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional
Transport (START) Experiment
Investigators Laura Pan (PI, ACD/TIIMES) Ken
Bowman (Texas AM) Mel Shapiro (NOAA/NCARMMM) Bill
Randel (ACD) Rushan Gao (NOAA) Teresa Campos
(ACD/EOL) Chris Davis (MMM) Sue Schauffler (ACD)
Collaborators Chris Barnet Jennifer
Wei (NOAA/NESDIS Satellite data)
Satellite data support Sylvia Murphy (ACD)
Frontal Cloud - flt 2005-12-14
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START Flight 1 2005-12-01 (502RF01)
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Stratospheric Intrusion and the Separation of the
Thermal and Dynamical Tropopause
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Flight RF05 - 2005-12-07
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GW breaking? KH wave breaking?
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START Flight 4 RF08 - 2005-12-14
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Chemical tracers and tracer correlations for
impact studies
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Chemical Transition using Relative Altitude
(RALT) and Tracer-Tracer Correlations (TTC)
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ER-2 data O3-H2O (POLARIS)
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Day of wave but no turbulence
Day of a lot of turb
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NASA DC-8, SONEX
Pan et al., 2006
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Value of airborne remote sensors
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The Aberystwyth Egrett Experiment
Funding from UK NERC UTLS programme
May June 2000
University of Wales, Aberystwyth University of
Cambridge NPL DLR Airborne Research Australia
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Aberystwyth MST Radar
Inertia-Gravity Wave generating and breaking at
the tropopause
Pavelin, Whiteway, and Vaughan, JGR, 2001
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Large scale transport (G. Vaughan and Co.)
5 June 2000
Egrett
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Horizontal flight leg 11.4 km altitude
Turbulent mixing of ozone and water vapour just
above the tropopause