SOLVE DC-8 CTC Page

This page provides color-coded temperature curtains (CTCs) for the SOLVE DC-8 flights, as well as plots of the flight tracks. Click on the thumbnail images 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. We are currently preparing links to such data for cases where we clearly see mountain lee waves. Use of This MTP Data These images are presented here only as an aid for other scientists to understand their SOLVE 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.

A Word About These Retrievals!

The MTP retrievals for Deployment #1 used retrieval coefficients which had not yet been optimized for this deployment, and a gain calibration which was revised in the second deployment. As a result, MTP temperature profiles are warmer than they should be away from the aircraft. The Deployment #1 data, including the archived MP files, will be revised in the near future.

Deployment #2 has a better gain calibration, but the retrieval coefficients were based upon RAOBs for this period in 1999. Because 1999 was warmer in the stratosphere than the current year, the retrievals are again biased warm. Sufficient RAOBs have now been collected for the current deployment to calculate new retrieval coefficients. When this is completed in the next few weeks, revised CTCs and MP-files will be submitted for both deployments.

Local Links: Deployment #1 | Nov 1999 | Dec 1999 |, Deployment #2 | Jan 2000 |, Deployment #3 | Feb 2000 | Mar 2000 |

NOVEMBER 1999
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4 Wt & Balance	5 Engineering Test Flight	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15 Safety Briefing	16 Test Flight Flt No. 00103	17	18 Test Flight Flt No. 00104	19	20
21	22 Test Flight Flt No. 000105	23	24	25	26	27
28	29 Transit to Kiruna	30 Flt No. 000106

DECEMBER 1999
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2 Flt No. 000107	3	4
5 Flt No. 000108	6	7 Flt No. 000109	8 Down Day	9	10 Flt No. 000110	11
12 Flt No. 000111	13	14 Flt No. 000112	15	16 Transit DFRC Flt No. 000113	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

MARCH 2000
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3 Flt No. 000124	4
5 Flt No. 000125	6	7	8 Flt No. 000126	9 Flt No. 000127	10	11 Flt No. 000128
12	13 Flt No. 000129	14	15 Flt No. 000130	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

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JANUARY 2000
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14 Transit to Sweden Flt No. 000115	15
16 Sunlit Vortex Flt No. 000116	17	18	19	20 N Pole with ER-2 Flt No. 000117	21	22
23 Flt No. 000118	24	25 Norway Overflight Flt No. 000119	26	27 Vortex Chemistry Flt No. 000120	28	29 Transit to DFRC Flt No. 000121
30	31

FEBRUARY 2000
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27 Flt No. 000123	28	29