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h1. Instrumental Constraints

||*WALES* | *HAMP Radar* | *HAMP Radiometer*| *SMART*** | *specMACS*| *Bahamas*||*A2D wind lidar*|*2micron wind lidar*|
|*Responsible People*
| Martin Wirth (DLR-IPA), Andreas Fix (DLR-IPA), Silke Groß (DLR-IPA), Axel Amediek (DLR-IPA)
| Lutz Hirsch (MPI-H), Friedhelm Jansen (MPI-H), Martin Hagen (DLR-IPA), Florian Ewald (DLR-IPA)
| Mario Mech (U Hamburg)
| Kevin Wolf (U Leipzig), André Ehrlich (U Leipzig), Manfred Wendisch (U Leipzig)
| Tobias Kölling (LMU-MIM), Tobias Zinner (LMU-MIM), Hans Grob (LMU-MIM), Bernhard Mayer (LMU-MIM)
| Christian Mallaun (DLR-FX), Martin Zöger (DLR-FX),
||Oliver Reitebuch (DLR-IPA), Christian Lemmerz (DLR-IPA), Engelbert Nagel (DLR-IPA), Oliver Lux (DLR-IPA), Uwe Marksteiner (DLR-IPA)
| Benjamin Witschas (DLR-IPA),Stefan Rahm (DLR-IPA)
|
|Number of Operators|1-2|1-2|||1|0||1|1|
|Instrument Operation
| No operation below 6 km possible
| Operation between 6 and 13.7 km (lt 6 km saturation of the radar receiver, gt13.7 km no ground-echo)
||Only daylight Operation, avoid solar elevation<15°, operation time: 0730-1600 UTC
| Only daylight Operation, as high above clouds as possible
* swath in 1.5km: 0.9 km (spec Macs); 2.1 km (2D cam)
* swath in 5.0km: 3.0 km (spec Macs); 7.0 km (2D cam)
| * Reduced accuracy during dust and salt contamination by high aerosol load during low Level flights
* Reduced data quality in precipitation and clouds (water/ice in pressure tube)
||* no data 1.5 km below aircraft

* limited number of 16-18 range gates (vert. res. 0.3/0.6/1.2 km)

* to be addapted to science obj.

* first obs 45 min after take-off

* no operation< 5km (eye-safety)
| * |* obs after 15 min

* no data 500 m below aircraft|
|Flight Planning
Requirements
|Preferably straight legs
|Min FL 200 (6 km)
Max FL 450 (13.7 km)
|one clear sky flight
one dropsonde per flight
|straight legs (min. 5 min)
|Straight legs
|||dropsondes fom HALO beneficial for
profiles of temperature
and hor. wind vector||
|Clouds|* best performance in a distance of 2 km to cloud top
* no measurements in clouds
|||above clouds (min 500 ft)
|ideally no clouds above
|||avoid flying within or
1-2 km above cirrus clouds
|at high flight level or close to the aircraft are unfavorable an prevent wind profiles|
|Instrument Calibration
||cirles over the sea with 10° bank (15 min/circle) during 1-2 research flights (calm and rough sea)
|at ground, before each research flight (30 min), with liquid nitrogen
|* Radiation box (4x2min legs), clear sky above
* regular cal at ground (between flights), about 1h
||||* 1 double flight to Kangelussuaq needed for A2D cal over Greenland ice sheet
* scan-pattern if situation allows (retrieve hor. wind vector)
|at the beginning of the campaign: several min with vis to ground at constant FL (~FL300) to determine Installation position|
|Satellite Overpasses||Cloudsat, GPM||A-Train (AQUA/TERRA)|A-Train (AQUA/TERRA)|||ASCAT||
|Coordination with F.Falcon|Intercomparison with LNG (Leandre New Generation)| Intercomparison with RASTA 95 GHz cloud radar||||||||