A31O:
Flight Research Techniques That Bring Results Using NASA Armstrong Airborne Science ER-2, G3, and DC-8 Aircraft I Posters


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Session ID#: 49742

Session Description:
In this study, atmospheric science flight research [in-situ and remote sensing data-extraction] techniques and results will be discussed to show the versatility of the unique aircraft at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The ER-2 flies missions at 20 KM above sea level, well above the tropopause, to calibrate GOES-R/S geo-stationary satellites. The G3/C-20 aircraft uses a modified synthetic aperture radar [SAR] that flies along a precise, fixed “tube” that is 12.5 KM above sea level on each mission to map a variety of earth subsidence (composition) missions. The DC-8 on its A-TOM [atmospheric tomography] missions sample aerosols and particulates in a wide swath of atmosphere see-sawing from sea level to 50,000 feet starting in the northern polar region to the Antarctic along the Pacific, then opposite direction north-bound through the Atlantic. The review will cover both flight research techniques and recent results for these specialized aircraft.
Primary Convener:  Robert A Rowe, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, United States
Conveners:  Brian L Hobbs, JPL/NASA/Caltech, ER-2, Palmdale, CA, United States and Timothy Williams, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Sciences, Edwards, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Timothy Williams, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Sciences, Edwards, CA, United States
Chairs:  Robert A Rowe, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, United States and Brian L Hobbs, JPL/NASA/Caltech, ER-2, Palmdale, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Timothy Williams, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Sciences, Edwards, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0722 Rock glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
1704 Atmospheric sciences [HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GMI-IPS: Processing & Visualization Software used in ATom DC-8 Aircraft Studies (418651)
Megan Rose Damon1, Junhua Liu2, Sarah A Strode3, Stephen D Steenrod1 and Sarah Elizabeth Elizabeth Benish4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
NASA/DLR Measurements from the DC8 of Aircraft Emissions and Contrails at Cruise (396609)
Bruce E Anderson1, Richard Moore1, Glenn S Diskin2, Timothy Ray Moes3, Richard C. Miake-Lye4, Tobias Schripp5,6, Armin Wisthaler7, Stephan Borrmann5, Prem Lobo8, Gregory Smallwood9, Philip Douglas Whitefield8, Patrick LeClercq6, Stefan Kaufmann10, Daniel N Sauer11, Hans Schlager12, Christiane Voigt10 and ND-MAX/ECLIF Science Team, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, United States, (4)Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (5)Johannes Gutenberg University, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Particle Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR Stuttgart, Institute of Combustion Technology, Stuttgart, Germany, (7)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (8)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States, (9)NRC-Canada, Metrology, Ottawa, Canada, (10)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (11)Ludwig Maximilians University, Meteorological Institute, Munich, Germany, (12)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany
ECLIF/ND-MAX - Impact of alternative jet fuels on particle emissions and contrail formation of aircraft in cruise (429260)
Daniel N Sauer1, Hans Schlager2, Bruce Anderson3, Patrick LeClercq4, Christiane Voigt1,5, Yvonne Boose2, Tiziana Bräuer1, Valerian Hahn2, Christopher Heckl2, Stefan Kaufmann1, Richard Moore3, Monika Scheibe1, Marina Schimpf2, Michael Shook6, Edward Winstead7, Luke D Ziemba3 and ND-MAX/ECLIF Science Team, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)German Aerospace Center DLR Stuttgart, Institute of Combustion Technology, Stuttgart, Germany, (5)Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (7)Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States

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