9Sep2010 14Z Daily GRIP Telecon - Paul Meyer
9Sep 2010
GRIP (FLL-JSC-DFRC) 14Z Daily Telecon / Webinar
Participants
FLL Team–Bob Houze, Liz Currie, Michele Garrett, Paul Meyer, Krishnamurti, Ed Zipser Instrument and Forecast teams
HSV – Michael Goodman, Matt He, Rich Blakeslee
Telecon
Bud Meins, Shelly Baccus, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Gerry Heymsfield, Steve Durden, Michael Black, Chris Ruf, Tim Miller, Ramesh Kakar
Global Hawk Report
· Aircraft – green
o No fly on Thursday
o Waiting for dropsonde low & high altitude drop test no earlier than Tuesday.
o Plane ready
· Droposonde – red
oRe-fly of Low Altitude test flight and high altitude flights in one day. Mustbe a weekday and have a chase plane.
oWill not be able to fly till Tuesday 9/14/2010
· HAMSR – green.
· LIP - green
· HIWRAP – yellow
oSome noise in 2-channels in the Ka band
oAnalyzing data
WB-57 Report
· Aircraft - red
o Awaiting repair of canopy seal pump; should be repaired by 9/10/2010
o Will work repair of three parts Tuesday morning
o Daily status updates. Hope to have one pump completed today another pump available from Navy supply.
o Aircraft should be able to fly on Monday.
· HIRAD - green
o Media day next Monday or Tuesday. (9/13-9/14)
o Will return to Houston this weekend Sunday (9/12), but will be able to arrive earlier if needed.
o Wanting to do sky calibration from ground (9/13-9/14/2010)
· NAST-I still delayed – may make it for last week of mission.
DC8 Report
· Aircraft– green.
o No fly day today
· LASE – green.
· LARGE – green.
· APR2 – green.
· DAWN – yellow.
· Microphysics – green
o PIP
o CSI cannot fly for the duration of GRIP
· MMS – green.
· Dropsonde – green.
o 60 sondes have been promised from NOAA and should arrive within the next three days. Thank you NOAA!
Science
Thursday – No fly day
Friday – Possible science flight DC-8
Ramesh Kakar - Need a synergistic look at Earl for one time period, perhaps when all NASA resources were flying, and incorporate collaborative efforts with the NOAA aircraft. Provide data from each of the instruments as a viewgraph, mission scientist assemble chart showing synergy between the instruments. This is for Mike Freilichs’ monthly presentation.
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