04/20/96

The DC-8 and ER-2 flew a coordinated cirrus cloud profiling mission over the CART site, where only patchy, optically thin cirrus (and halos) were observed during the entire day. Both ER-2 and DC-8 flew up/down-wind legs over the CART site. Only the first leg was coordinated for a radiation measurement time-series, with the DC-8 below the cirrus deck. For the cirrus profiling the DC-8 ascended in an up/down-wind flight-leg racetrack pattern and descended in slow spirals near the CART-site. The ER-2 observed lots of cirrus and contrails over the CART site. One of the contrails extended over 37km. The DC-8 observed cirrus over CART site. Ground observations indicated that the DC-8 made persistent contrails in temperatures as high as -38C in patchy cirrus. The T39 flew a test flight to test the chemical ionization mass spectrometer system.

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Flight Reports

ER-2
DC-8
T-39

CART Site

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