04/16/96
The T-39, DC-8 and ER-2 flew a coordinated mission over the CART site,
under patchy cirrus clouds. The T-39 created contrails (by flying circles)
upwind of the CART site. At the same altitude, but downwind of the CART
site, the DC-8 flew perpendicular to the wind-direction to sample the remnants
of the T-39 contrails, which were not too persistent to be easily identified,
and to profile the patchy cirrus cloud-field. The ER-2, while flying an wind pattern, observed the other aircraft from above them.
After the T39 exhausted its fuel and returned to Salina, the DC-8 continued
to fly under, and with the same pattern as the ER-2.
At 2006 UTC measurements were coordinated with the NOAA-14 satellite overpass.
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