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TCSP Mission Reports Table of Contents
The Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) mission was a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The field experiment was done during the month of July, 2005 and was based out of San Jose, Costa Rica. TCSP was a successor field mission of previous Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX) missions. TCSP was focused on the study of the dynamics and thermodynamics of precipitating cloud systems, including tropical cyclones using NASA-funded aircraft and surface remote sensing instrumentation. Targeted data sets were collected using the NASA ER-2 research aircraft, the NOAA P-3 Orion research aircraft, The Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft, and Atmospheric balloon soundings via latex meteorological balloons. The TCSP Mission Reports were filed every day that an aircraft flew in support of the experiment. The reports include a short description of the day's mission, its objective, and other relevant notes. Also included is a summary of the Ticosonde balloon launches. Data FormatAircraft mission summaries are in microsoft word documents and the mission scientist reports are ASCII text files. The mission reports and summaries were created for each active mission day, and are in one of the following forms:
Note: The P3 mission reports have an additional field in their name which is the aircraft number. This is because there were multiple P3 aircraft, and they were sometimes in the air at the same time. Each summary file has the date that the flight was actually flown (mm-dd-yy). Also, the Ticosonde mission summary has no date, but is a summary of all the balloon launches during the mission. Contact and Ordering InformationTo order these data or for further information, please contact:
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Introduction