NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. IOP Overview

h2. *Overview IOPs, Research Flights* 

| *IOP* | *Date* | *RF Falcon* | *Falcon Aims* || *RF HALO* | *HALO Aims* ||*Coordination* |

| 1 | 17/09/2016 | RF01, RF02  | Waveguide near WCB outflow, Overflight South Uist || RF01 | Waveguide near WCB outflow, Overflight Chilbolton, Smart Calibration Pattern, Radar Calibration Pattern at 2 FLs || HALO & Falcon south and east of Icleand|

| 2   | 21/09/2016 | RF03      | Waveguide near WCB outflow || RF02  | Waveguide near WCB outflow northwest of Iceland, WCB ascent south of Icleand related to cyclone Ursula || HALO & Falcon northwest of Iceland|

| 3 | 23/09/2016 | RF04        | Waveguide near WCB outflow || RF03    | Waveguide near WCB outflow, WCB ascent over easter North Atlantic related to cyclone Vladiana   || HALO & Falcon southeast of Iceland

HALO & FAAM BAE-146 North of Ireland|

| 4 | 26/09/2016 | ---         |  ---        || RF04      | WCB acent, tropopause fold, intensifying Ex-TC Karl |||

| 5 | 27/09/2016 | RF 05 | Strong jetstream with cut-off and the remnants of Karl above,  || RF05 | Strong moisture Transport upstream of HIW predicted to Impact UK and Southern Scandinavia, PV Cut-off, Tropopause fold and remnants of Ex-Karl closer to Iceland || flight with FAAM-BAE 146 North of Scotland(low-level, dropsonde leg)|

|    | 28/09/2016 | RF06| Calibration flight ||           |  |||

| 6  | 01/10/2016 |             |             || RF06 | _Flight cancelled after 1 hour due to technical problems_ |||

| 7  | 02/10/2016 | RF07 | WCB outflow near Iceland: Box flight with tropopause Jet stream crossing ||           ||| German Falcon and French Falcon (3/4 of the Box + dropsondes) |

| 8  | 04/10/2016 | RF08, RF09 | Jetstream crossing east and south of Iceland ||           |  |||

| 9  | 06/10/2016 |  |  ||  RF07 | TPV structure near Newfoundland |||

| 10 | 09/10/2016 | RF10 | Wind over Iceland ||  RF08 | PV streamer, WCB ascent realted to cyclone Sanchez, Ra-Li Comparisons || Coordination with D-Falcon & 2*F-Falcon|

| 11 | 10/10/2016 |  |  ||  RF09 | PV streamer and cyclone  Sanchez|||

| 12 | 13/10/2016 |  |  ||  RF10 | Ridge Building northern North Atlantic, CAT, orograpgic gravity waves over Iceland, Andoya Overflight||Coordination with F-Falcon|

!{width:60%}NAWDEX_aims_IOPs_matrix.png!

h2. *Dropsondes*

|*RF*| Number of dropped sondes (losses)|

|01|11 (1)|

|02|14|

|03|21|

|04|27 (2)|

|05|22 (2)|

|07|19 |

|11|21 (2) |

|12|25  |

|Total|161|

|Remaining|43|

h2. *specMACS data overview*

specMACS quicklook data for the whole NAWDEX campaign can be found here: https://macsserver.physik.uni-muenchen.de/campaigns/NAWDEX/