• Ground: 2005-Nov-18 to 2006-Mar-13 at the Enhanced Measurements Site CARE.
  • In collaboration with the projects/programs,
    • AVISA (Airport Vicinity Icing and Snow Advisor)
    • FRAM (Fog Remote Sensing and Modeling)

• In-situ: Deferred to 2006-07.

Great Lakes

• Proceed to current status page
• Ground: 2006-Oct-01 to 2007-Mar-31 at the Enhanced Measurements Site CARE.

• In-situ: 2006-Oct-31 to 2007-Mar-01 with the NRC Convair-580 based out of Ottawa for ~100 hours or ~25 flights.
• Aircraft operations plan (where IOP = set of flights within a 16-day A-train orbit cycle):
  • Tentative dates are,
    • IOP1:  Oct 31  –  Nov 09, 2006
    • IOP2:  Dec 02  –  Dec 11, 2006
    • IOP3:  Jan 19  –  Jan 28, 2007
    • IOP4:  Feb 20  –  Mar 01, 2007
  • Each IOP to perform,
    • 5 of 6 possible day-time CloudSat synchronized flights between Ottawa and CARE.
    • 1 night-time CloudSat overpass near CARE
    • 1 unsynchronized flight over CARE when the weather is particularly interesting

• In collaboration with the projects/programs,
  • CANDAC (Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change)
  • SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change)

• In collaboration with the projects/programs,
  • CANDAC (Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change)
  • SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change)