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Times for take-off and landing are in UTC and refer to the Falcon data acquisition system.
Mission id | Short miss. id | Date at take-off | Flight on day | Take-off time (UTC) | Landing time (UTC) | Route | Type of flight | Short description of flight |
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OP | 09-Mar-2000 | 09:09:32 | 10:32:51 | Oberpfaffenhofen - Oberpfaffenhofen | Test flight | Test flight in very clean air with low aerosol and nitric oxide concentrations. | ||
A | 13-Mar-2000 | 09:18:56 | 13:16:58 | Oberpfaffenhofen - Keflavik | Ferry flight | Cruise at FL 390. Almost all flight in stratosphere. Passing of some old contrails, already unvisible, but with high particle concentrations. | ||
B | 14-Mar-2000 | 1st | 08:24:01 | 12:32:24 | Keflavik - Goose Bay | Ferry flight | Flight in tropopause / lower stratosphere region during the whole leg. Later part of flight close to cirrus layer top. | |
C | 14-Mar-2000 | 2nd | 13:53:14 | 17:45:54 | Goose Bay - Peoria | Ferry flight | Flight in tropopause / lower stratosphere region during the whole leg. | |
D | 16-Mar-2000 | 1st | 15:59:46 | 19:56:09 | Peoria - Mexico City | Ferry flight | First part of the flight was in upper troposphere and tropopause region passing a cold front. Cirrus layer at FL270. Particle concentration was very high just under or in the lowes part of the cloud. Later flight was at tropopause, maybe in lower stratosphere. | |
E | 16-Mar-2000 | 2nd | 21:54:25 | 01:22:37 | Mexico City - Panama City | Ferry flight | All of the flight in the upper free torposphere. Concentrations of all measured parameters were very, very stable. | |
F | 17-Mar-2000 | 1st | 15:24:31 | 18:41:59 | Panama City - Lima | Ferry flight | Cirrus outflow from large Cb. Top of the cirrus cloud layer was at FL 330. Close to the equator the cloud structure was very complex and clouds were present in many different altitudes. The rest of the flight was partly inside or above cirrus clouds. | |
G | 17-Mar-2000 | 2nd | 20:15:31 | 23:28:58 | Lima - Santiago de Chile | Ferry flight | At cruising altitude of 37 000 ft a layer of cirrus clouds was intercepted for 15 minutes. Particle concentration (> 6 nm) was relatively high close to the cirrus clouds. Probable pass through subtropical jet stream. | |
H | 18-Mar-2000 | 18:31:43 | 21:24:13 | Santiago de Chile - Punta Arenas | Ferry flight | A number of hazy layers in lower troposphere with enhanced aerosol concentration. At FL 370 the Falcon entered upper part of cirrus clouds. All measured parameters were very low (aerosol, No, NOy, CO, O3). | ||
T1 | 23-Mar-2000 | 1st | 14:39:16 | 16:02:10 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Technical flight | The second leg of the triangle shaped flight track was almost completely in cirrus clouds at 8100 m altitude. | |
T2 | 23-Mar-2000 | 2nd | 19:05:00 | 20:28:27 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Technical flight | Some cirrus cloud fields penetrated. Sampling near local tropopause. | |
M1 | 24-Mar-2000 | 20:20:01 | 23:14:48 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Target was a cirrus cloud field over sea north-west of Punta Arenas. L-shaped flight pattern inside the cloud at three different levels (FL 246, 210, and 195). In the medium level the cloud structure was quite homogeneous inside the cirrus, in the upper level the cirrus was thinner, and in the lower level probably some tops of cumulus type clouds have been penetrated. | ||
M2 | 31-Mar-2000 | 1st | 13:22:54 | 16:34:30 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Measurements in a cirrus cloud field that was part of a system that approached from the west, with humid air extending trough out the troposphere. The interior of the cloud was fairly homogenous and opaque. | |
M3 | 31-Mar-2000 | 2nd | 19:20:58 | 23:11:28 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Measurements of the same cloud system probed in the morning flight, now 2 degrees further east. Uppermost and lowermost tracks matched cloud top and cloud base very good. Rear edge of the system reached. Cloud system was very homogeneous in the lateral direction. | |
M4 | 03-Apr-2000 | 19:17:30 | 22:48:02 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Cirrus field southwest of Punta Arenas at an altitude of about 350 hPa. Flight track lead through dry air to get a good contrast between in cloud and out of cloud. Three transects at FL 300, FL 310, and FL 320. Clouds showed a very patchy lateral structure with well developed sequences in cloud and out of cloud. | ||
M5 | 04-Apr-2000 | 18:04:33 | 21:44:38 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | One-hour transfer flight in clear air, but with high clouds around. Measurements in cloud field approaching the continent from the west at flight levels 300 and 280. Rather patchy cirrus. | ||
M6 | 05-Apr-2000 | 16:58:26 | 20:39:05 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Take-off at late afternoon to allow for measurements in darkness under conditions of negligible photochemical activity. After 30 min of flight in clear sky a cirrus field approaching Punta Arenas from the west was reached and entered from above at FL 290. | ||
M7 | 06-Apr-2000 | 22:06:38 | 01:59:00 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | approaching Punta Arenas from the west. | ||
M8 | 10-Apr-2000 | 19:35:41 | 23:31:45 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | After climbing to FL 380 some thin, patchy and cold cirrus was encountered occasionally whilst a larger but scattered cirrus cloud field was below. Measurements at different altitudes between FL 375 and FL 340. One flight leg over Punta Arenas at FL 260 through cirrus which was observed as well by the LIDAR at the same time. | ||
M9 | 12-Apr-2000 | 12:55:31 | 16:43:08 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Cirrus cloud belt associated with a jet stream west of Punta Arenas. The cloud belt was crossed several times flying with the wind outside the cloud belt and against the wind inside the cloud belt (at the FL330, 320, 310, and 290). Associated with the jet stream was a tropopause fault. | ||
M10 | 13-Apr-2000 | 20:56:31 | 00:46:50 | Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas | Mission flight | Take-off in late afternoon to repeat cirrus cloud measurements under conditions of low or negligible photochemical activity. A cirrus cloud band connected to a cold front was probed at various flight levels. No cirrus above FL 300. Cirrus was moving (and dissolving) quickly. During descend parallel measurements with LIDAR. | ||
I | 16-Apr-2000 | 1st | 13:12:35 | 15:02:57 | Punta Arenas - Puerto Montt | Ferry flight | The Falcon climbed to FL 345, no cirrus clouds present on this flight. | |
K | 16-Apr-2000 | 2nd | 16:16:47 | 19:52:54 | Puerto Montt - Fóz do Iguaçú | Ferry flight | The Falcon was flying mainly above this highest cirrus cloud level (maybe in tropopause). Later in flight cirrus was entered. | |
L | 18-Apr-2000 | 1st | 11:55:16 | 15:49:03 | Fóz do Iguaçú - Recife | Ferry flight | Strong rain at ground before take-off. Above the cumuli nimbus was a thin cirrus layer that was partly entered at cruising altitude (FL 370). | |
M | 18-Apr-2000 | 2nd | 17:36:35 | 21:42:27 | Recife - Sal | Ferry flight | Climb to FL 370. Cirrus outflow of a cumulus nimbus observed. Later flight partly in a thin cirrus layer. | |
N | 19-Apr-2000 | 13:57:58 | 17:31:27 | Sal - Sevilla | Ferry flight | Cruising altitude of 37000 ft. Over the Islas Canarias it was often turbulent because of the influence of the jetstream. After passing the jetstream the Tropopause was according to the weather forecast at FL 400. | ||
O | 20-Apr-2000 | 11:58:53 | 14:29:21 | Sevilla - Oberpfaffenhofen | Ferry flight | Cruise altitude was, as long as the air traffic allowed it, FL 350, partly in cloud. Two contrails probed. | ||
T2 | 20-Sep-2000 | 14:29:47 | 16:17:59 | Oberpfaffenhofen - Oberpfaffenhofen | Test flight | Test flight. Climb to flight level 390. | ||
A2 | 25-Sep-2000 | 08:12:51 | 10:24:22 | Oberpfaffenhofen - Prestwick | Ferry flight | Ferry flight from Oberpfaffenhofen to Prestwick. Flight was out of clouds for most of the time with the exception of a few thin cirrus clouds encountered for about 10 min. | ||
M12 | 27-Sep-2000 | 13:09:35 | 16:04:50 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Cirrus field approaching from SW entered at flight levels 330, 310, and 290. Operation area located NE from the flight corridor, so that polluted air masses were transported into the operation area. Good sequences for in-cloud out-of-cloud comparison studies. | ||
M22 | 29-Sep-2000 | 13:33:45 | 16:41:20 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Dissolving cirrus east of the Scottish mainland with very strong winds blowing northward at flight levels 330 and 300. Mixed-phased clouds at flight level 250 and below. Flight level 370 still below the tropopause, condensation nuclei concentrations rather high at upper levels. | ||
M32 | 01-Oct-2000 | 13:42:01 | 16:59:05 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Dissolving cirrus cloud field north of the Scottish coast at FL 330. Thin cirrus layer close to the cloud top probed. Within the main cirrus cloud field a very pronounced change of aerosol properties. | ||
M42 | 03-Oct-2000 | 1st | 08:02:42 | 11:07:10 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | First flight of a quasi-lagrangian experiment west of Prestwick over Ireland. Very few scattered cirrus clouds, several evaporating contrails and aged plumes. | |
M52 | 03-Oct-2000 | 2nd | 12:57:06 | 16:15:10 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Second flight of a quasi-lagrangian experiment over NE Scotland and the Orkney Islands. Very homogeneous, fairly dense cirrus field at flight level 270 at temperatures of -33 °C. Further north-east the only higher level cirrus that could be visually observed from the aircraft was entered at flight level 330. | |
M62 | 06-Oct-2000 | 10:18:34 | 13:35:00 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Several overpasses over AWI Lidar, but due to low level clouds no parallel measurements. Thin cirrus band aligned with the wind was followed inside at FL 330 (240 K) until to 59.3°N. The aircraft returned in the same cloud. Upper tropospheric air very clean. Presumably several aircraft plumes encountered. | ||
M72 | 10-Oct-2000 | 15:14:10 | 18:24:40 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Extended and fairly homogeneous cirrus field with the top of clouds gradually increasing from FL 280 to FL 300 from Outer Hebrides to Shetland Island region. Thin, patchy cirrus, at flight level 330 at a temperature of –55°C. Tropospherepolluted up to an altitude of 7000 m but very clean above. | ||
M82 | 12-Oct-2000 | 1st | 10:58:27 | 13:28:47 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Several overpasses over AWI Lidar, but due to low level clouds no parallel measurements. Vertically relatively thick wave cirrus clouds over the central Scottish highlands. Middle and upper tropospheric air very polluted. | |
M92 | 12-Oct-2000 | 2nd | 14:30:20 | 17:53:31 | Prestwick - Prestwick | Mission flight | Extended cirrus field over Shetland Island region. Low tropopause, cold cirrus. Convective clouds. | |
B2 | 13-Oct-2000 | 09:38:54 | 11:44:34 | Prestwick - Oberpfaffenhofen | Ferry flight | Ferry flight from Prestwick to Oberpfaffenhofen. No cirrus clouds. |