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Applications of the Aerosonde at NSA

Curry, J.A. and Holland, G.J., University of Colorado
Eleventh Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting

The first ARM Aerosonde flights at Barrow in April 1999 were not successful owing to the aircraft's inability to fly under severe icing conditions. However, we were sufficiently encouraged by these initial flights to pursue further developments to make feasible Aerosonde flights in the Arctic. NSF has funded a major project to establish a long-term Aerosonde facility based in Barrow. Extensive research is underway on the topic of icing mitigation. A limited but successful mission was undertaken in Barrow during August 2000. In the coming year, flights are planned for April, August 2001. We hope to be able to fly the originally proposed single-column advection flight pattern during July. We are also working to develop and integrate additional instruments into the payload, including IR pyrometer, videocamera, cloud particle replicator, and radiometers. Possibilities for using the Aerosonde at NSA and other ARM sites will be discussed.

Note: This is the poster abstract presented at the meeting; an extended version was not provided by the author(s).