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CRYSTAL-FACE Field Campaign

  • Flights focused on cirrus clouds especially those generated by thunderstomrs
       July 2002
  • Coordinated flights with ER-2, WB-57, Proteus, UND Citation, NOAA P3's and TRMM N-Pol radars
        (NPOL).
  • First ER-2 flights with dual-frequency radar measurements
        (EDOP 9.6 GHz & CRS 94 GHz)
  • Overflights of ground assets (East and West remote sensing sites including
        cloud radars, lidars and TRMM N-Pol radar (NPOL).
  • About 80 ER-2 flight hours flown.

    Goddard DATA site: CRYSTAL-FACE Data

    More information: CRYSTAL-FACE Web Site

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    Dr. Gerry Heymsfield
    email: Gerald.M.Heymsfield@nasa.gov
    phone: (301) 614-6369
    fax: (301) 614-5492

    Lihua Li
    email: lihua@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
    phone: (301) 614-6356
    fax: (301) 614-5492