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SCOUT-O3 CTC Page - Preliminary Data Only

Last Update: October 10, 2006

This page provides a calendar of color-coded temperature curtains (CTCs) for the SCOUT-O3 WB-57F flights. Click on the thumbnail images in the calendar frames below to examine an enlarged (800x600) PNG image of the thumbnail; click the flight number to see a plot of the flight track. The enlarged PNG images range in size from 30-50 kB. Although CTCs for an entire flight are very useful for understanding what happening on a synoptic scale, they do not use the MTP data at full resolution, and therefore do not adequately illustrate the mesoscale structure of the atmosphere. For comparison of MTP measurements to in situ and remote tracer measurements, full resolution MTP data should be used. This is available from the archive in the MP files.

The CTC plots presented here are based on data submitted to the archive on TBD 2006. The CTC plots all have the same temperature range (170 K - 270 K), and pressure altitude range (8 km - 28 km), except for the very last. The flight altitude is indicated by the upper solid black trace, and the tropopause altitude, by the white trace. The black trace near the bottom of the plot  is a metric which indicates the quality of the retrieval and ranges from 0 (excellent) to 2 (poor) on the left hand (km) pressure altitude scale (it uses the lowest two tic intervals). In the COMMENTS field I have provided an assessment of the quality of the retrieval. Click on the flight date to obtain a PNG image of the flight track. 

These images are presented here only as an aid for other scientists to understand their SCOUT-O3 data. It may not be used for any other purpose, or referred to, without written permission from MJ Mahoney of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For more information, go here.

 
CTC Thumbnail 
Flight
Track
 Comments
rTZS_20051116v.PNG 20051116 1st Flight from Darwin - Hector
Good Flight
 rTZS_20051119v.PNG 20051119
Tiwi Zoom
 2nd Flight from Darwin - Hector and N-S Survey
Good Flight
rTZS_20051123v.PNG 20051123 3rd Flight from Darwin - Hector and N-S Survey
Good Flight
rTZS_20051125v.PNG  20051125 4th Flight from Darwin - Hector
Excellent Flight
rTZS_20051128v.PNG  20051128 5th Flight from Darwin - aborted at 11.3 km
rTZS_20051129v.PNG  20051129 6th Flight from Darwin - N-S Survey
Excellent Flight
rTZS_20051130v.PNG  20051130a 7th Flight from Darwin - Hector
Excellent Flight
rTZS_20051201v.PNG 20051130b 8th Flight from Darwin - Hector Remnant
Excellent Flight
rTZS_20051205v.PNG 20051205 9th Flight from Darwin - Southern Survey