Mission Summary for July 22, 2004

    This was the This was the third DC-8 science flight from Pease AFB New Hampshire. The flight was focused on sampling polluted boundary layer outflow along the eastern seaboard both to the north and south of Pease. In the free troposphere, outflow was expected to be comprised of a mixture of influences including biomass burning, Asian influence, and stratospheric influence. Objectives for this flight also included the initial opportunity for intercomparison between the NASA DC-8 and NOAA WP-3D aircraft. A coordinated validation profile was also planned with the J-31 over the NOAA research vessel Ron Brown and beneath the MISR instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
    GOES-12 ir image (22 July 04 16:32 Z) showing DC-8 flight track

    DC-8 tracks on   visible image.
    DC-8 tracks on   water vapor image.