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VISST Cloud Product Summary for April 19, 2004

The NASA WB57F flew a subtropical cirrus profiling mission over the ARM CART site. A subtropical jet stream cirrus plume extended over the ARM site in a southwesterly flow and propagated eastward during the course of the mission. The WB57F was able to sample and characterize a wide range of cirrus conditions. Flight take off at 16:54 UTC with landing at 21:39 UTC.   Full Summary
VISST Optical Depth Image (19 April 04 19:15 Z) showing NASA WB57F flight track

WB57 tracks on:   Cloud Top , Ice Water Path , Ice Diameter , 10.7 um BT , Cloud Phase , Icing Risk
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