date | name | IOP | remarks |
2016-09-17 |
RF01 |
Transfer / IOP 1 |
- Waveguide near WCB outflow, Overflight Chilbolton, Smart Calibration Pattern, Radar Calibration Pattern at 2 FLs
- coordination of HALO & Falcon south and east of Icleand
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2016-09-21 |
RF02 |
IOP 2 |
- Waveguide near WCB outflow northwest of Iceland, WCB ascent south of Icleand related to cyclone Ursula
- coordination of HALO & Falcon northwest of Iceland
- data available until approx. 18:35 UTC
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2016-09-23 |
RF03 |
IOP 3 |
- Waveguide near WCB outflow, WCB ascent over easter North Atlantic related to cyclone Vladiana
- coordination of HALO & Falcon southeast of Iceland
- coordination of HALO & FAAM BAE-146 North of Ireland
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2016-09-26 |
RF04 |
IOP 4 |
- WCB acent, tropopause fold, intensifying Ex-TC Karl
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2016-09-27 |
RF05 |
IOP 5 |
- Strong moisture Transport upstream of HIW predicted to Impact UK and Southern Scandinavia, PV Cut-off, Tropopause fold and remnants of Ex-Karl closer to Iceland
- flight with FAAM-BAE 146 North of Scotland(low-level, dropsonde leg)
- last part of the flight is after sunset -> unsuseable data in that part
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2016-10-01 |
RF06 |
IOP 6 |
- Flight cancelled after 1 hour due to technical problems
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2016-10-06 |
RF07 |
IOP 9 |
- TPV structure near Newfoundland
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2016-10-09 |
RF08 |
IOP 10 |
- PV streamer, WCB ascent realted to cyclone Sanchez, Ra-Li Comparisons
- Coordination with D-Falcon & 2*F-Falcon
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2016-10-10 |
RF09 |
IOP 11 |
- PV streamer and cyclone Sanchez (now officially named Brigitte)
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2016-10-13 |
RF10 |
IOP 12 |
- Ridge Building northern North Atlantic, CAT, orograpgic gravity waves over Iceland, Andoya Overflight
- Coordination with F-Falcon (contrail of Falcon visible at about 14:28 UTC in the video)
- In the first phase, especially over the nothern half of the Greenland overpass, specMACS had several hickups.
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2016-10-14 |
RF11 |
IOP 13 |
- Radar-Lidar observations in coordination with F-Falcon
- Coordination with FAAM BAE 146
- A-Train underpass
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2016-10-15 |
RF12 |
IOP 14 |
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2016-10-18 |
RF13 |
Transfer / IOP 15 |
- Coordinated jet-crossing (with F-Falcon)
- PV cut-off over UK with asent over North Sea
- Overflight of Jülich
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