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Project: SARPEC-IOP1 - Saudi Arabia AeRosol-Cloud-Precipitation Enhancement Campaign (SARPEC) IOP1
Dates: July 22 - August 11 2023
Location: Western Saudi Arabia (Summer 2023) and Central Saudi Arabia (Fall 2023)
Platform: North Dakota Citation Research Aircraft
Tail Number: N555DS
Aircraft Base: Rabigh Airport OERB
Flight Level Processing Script: process_all_saudi2023

Weather Briefing Number: 679-069-541
WMI Project Portal (Password Required): https://www.wmiradar.com/ksa
SARPEC-IOP1 Atmospheric Sciences Field Catalog
SARPEC-IOP1 Aerospace College Field Catalog

Flight ID	Leg	Altitude (m)	Start Time (sfm)	End Time (sfm)
20230730_103745	1	7475.0 +/- 20.0 m	41000.0 (11:23:00)	41430.0 (11:30:40)
20230731_095501	1	7855.5 +/- 9.7 m	49631.0 (13:47:00)	50090.0 (13:55:00)
20230801_102805	1	9140.5 +/- 10.0 m	47300.0 (13:08:00)	47800.0 (13:17:00)

Table listing the time segments for sampling the convective cloud core. The ID is broken into the flight data (YYYYMMDD format), followed by a Letter for the Cloud Id, followed by a number for the cloud pass.

Flight	M300	M300	Core	Press.	Temp.	Temp.	Conc.	Conc.	EffR	EffR	MVD	MVD	LWC	LWC
ID	Start	End	Total	Height	Mean	STD	Mean	STD	Mean	STD	Mean	STD	Mean	STD
Date-Cloud	SFM	SFM	s	kft	°C	°C	# cm-3	# cm-3	μm	μm	μm	μm	g/m3	g/m3
20230805-A1	41429.1	41435.3	6.2	22.0	-15.9	0.34	586	28	7.8	0.09	14.2	0.29	0.81	0.28
20230805-A2	41658.3	41665.3	7.0	25.0	-18.5	0.21	570	33	9.2	0.10	16.0	0.44	1.34	0.16
20230810-A1	41429.1	41435.3	6.2	22.0	-14.1	0.19	647	47	7.8	0.32	NA	NA	NA	NA
20230810-A2	41658.3	41665.3	7.0	25.0	-17.9	0.37	423	35	8.9	0.26	NA	NA	NA	NA
20230810-A3	46526.0	46526.7	0.7	28.0	-29.2	0.30	221	18	9.2	0.22	NA	NA	NA	NA
20230813-A1	42072.2	42079.6	7.4	22.0	-10.8	0.32	738	114	8.3	0.17	15.2	0.61	1.16	0.27
20230813-A2	42380.3	42385.6	5.3	25.0	-15.5	0.92	731	71	8.8	0.13	15.5	0.89	1.46	0.55
20230813-A3	43250.6	43255.7	5.1	29.0	-24.0	0.60	392	41	9.0	0.33	16.2	0.11	0.74	0.41
20230814-A1	44038.5	44048.5	10.0	25.0	-15.3	1.50	692	98	10.7	0.18	19.7	0.29	2.46	0.92
20230814-B1	44408.9	44417.1	8.2	25.0	-21.3	0.33	438	52	8.3	0.17	15.2	0.25	0.77	0.22

Date	Notes
20230730	Nev. Probe A/D not connected, no data.

Make sure the seriald1 WCM data files is created. Make sure the M300 is displaying the LWC/TWC data and the necessary data is sent from the M300 to the WCM.

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Table of Contents

SARPEC-IOP1 Filed Project

Links

Out-of-cloud Speed Runs

Cloud Core Sampling Time Segments

Instrumentation Status Notes

Items for Fall 2023