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Navy Project at the CAPE in Florida (CapeEx19)
- Dates: 22 July to 04 August 2019
- Location: Cape Canaveral AFS/Kennedy Space Center/Titusville (KTIX), FL
Data Processing Summary
- 07/24/2019: No PIP. processed CIP with reconstruction (2017 SODA2 code)
- 07/25/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction
- 07/26/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction
- 07/29/2019: No PIP, processed CIP with reconstruction
Chain Aggregation
Radar Images from 2019
TITAN Rview Animations -- Titan Cell 35dBZ Threshold
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PHIPS Images
Cplot2 Images
For the 20190803a Flight
Flight Leg -- 20190803_1539 - 20190803_1544
Flight Leg -- 20190803_155000-160100 – Flight Leg 1
Flight Leg -- 20190803_160200-160700 – Flight Leg 2
Flight Leg -- 20190803_160900-161700 – Flight Leg 3
Flight Leg -- 20190803_162130-162700 – Flight Leg 4
Flight Leg -- 20190803_164000-164600 – Flight Leg 5
Flight Leg -- 20190803_170730-171200 – *Flight Leg 6
*Flight Leg 6 was during decent – might not be useful.
Electric Field Vector Plots
For the 20190803a Flight
Flight Leg -- 20190803_155000-160100 -- Efield – Flight Leg 1
Flight Leg -- 20190803_160200-160700 -- Efield – Flight Leg 2
Flight Leg -- 20190803_160900-161700 -- Efield – Flight Leg 3
Flight Leg -- 20190803_162130-162700 -- Efield – Flight Leg 4
Flight Leg -- 20190803_164000-164600 -- Efield – Flight Leg 5
NLDN Lightning Plots
- 800 total lightning stokes detected
- 605 total Cloud-to-cloud/Intra-Cloud lightning stokes detected
- 195 total cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- 354 total negative lightning strokes detected
- 446 total positive lightning strokes detected
- 443 total positive cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
- 3 total positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- 162 total negative cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
- 192 total negative cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- Average Negative Stroke Magnitude = -21.06 kA
- Average Positive Stroke Magnitude = 6.87 kA
- 61 total lightning stokes detected
- 47 total Cloud-to-cloud/Intra-Cloud lightning stokes detected
- 14 total cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- 18 total negative lightning strokes detected
- 43 total positive lightning strokes detected
- 41 total positive cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
- 2 total positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- 6 total negative cloud-to-cloud/intra-cloud lightning strokes detected
- 12 total negative cloud-to-ground lightning strokes detected
- Average Negative Stroke Magnitude = -10.41 kA
- Average Positive Stroke Magnitude = 9.22 kA
LMA examples
These are 3 examples of lightning in the storm in which the Citation was flying around 16:00:00 UT on August 3 2019 (1st flight of the day).
PHIPS Data Notes
Presentations
20190803_dataslides_nairy_thesis_220420.pptx
20190803_dataslides_nairy_thesis_220513.pptx