CalWater2Gulfstream-IV Measurements

Janet IntrieriNOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory

April 23, 2014

CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 2

G-IVThe Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) is a high altitude, high speed, twin turbofan jet aircraft acquired by NOAA AOC in 1996. The G-IV is currently configured for

operational support of the National Hurricane Center synoptic surveillance mission. This mission is designed to collect, process and transmit vertical atmospheric soundings in the environment of the hurricane.

22-24 APR 2014

Platform Altitude Range Proposed Base Ops Areas Standard Payload

NOAA G-IV 1,000 to45,000

Travis AFB orHonolulu, HI

Offshore Coastal CA-HI

Coast Range

Dropwindsonde

Tail Doppler Radar (TDR)

Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR)

CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 3

Dropwindsondes

The dropsonde is released from the G-IV measuring and transmitting back the pressure, temperature, humidity, and GPS Doppler frequency shifts to the aircraft as it descends to earth. The Doppler shifts are used to compute the horizontal and vertical wind components.

After analysis and processing of the dropsonde data the information is formatted into a TEMP-DROP message using the standard WMO format. The TEMP-DROP message is then transmitted to the NCEP and the NHC for inclusion into the global and hurricane model runs. The TEMP-DROP message is also provided to the hurricane forecaster providing real-time observations depicting the synoptic patterns surrounding the hurricane.

22-24 APR 2014

CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 4

AVAPSAirborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling System

• Operated by one person• Can receive & process data

from 4 dropsondes at the same time

• Simple Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• Outputs real time PTH and wind spd/dir for each channel as sondes are descending

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SFMR The Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer provides information on surface winds – Sfc winds & rain rate

SFMR measures C-band microwave emission from foam (air bubbles in the ocean)

First guess pre-2005: Emissivity a quadratic function of wind speed for all winds.

2005 new knowledge: Emissivity a quadratic function of wind up to hurricane force only- a linear function for hurricane winds

CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 6

Possible Additional Payload - Dual-Beam UV Absorption Ozone Photometer

• Ozone measurements (NOAA O3 aka NOAA Classic) to sample air across the subtropical jet –(Profitt and McLauglin et al., 1983)

– Potential Payoffs• Has already been deployed on the G-IV

• Significantly increase our understanding of mixing across the subtropical jet and the resulting UT/LS exchange

• Gain systematic knowledge of the interaction between Asia pollution and the subtropical jet, which may lead pollutants directly into the lower stratosphere

• Obtain O3 data in the UT/LS that can be used for improving NOAA satellite O3 retrieval

POC: Rushan Gao (ESRL/CSD)

22-24 APR 2014

NOTE: CO measurements – Unlikely for 2015

CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 7

TDR PPI reflectivity slice from 1915-1954 UTC at 8.5 km from the G-IV flight on 14 FEB 2014.G-IV TDR

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CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 8

North-south vertical cross-section of a east-west wind-component analysis approximately along the flight track

G-IV TDR

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CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 9

A higher-resolution vertical cross section of each flight legG-IV TDR

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CalWater 2015 Planning Workshop 10

Vertical cross-sections of total horizontal wind speed. Since the analysis isn't good near the flight level, it’s removed. The vertical cross-sections assume constant conditions well left and right of flight track, and then can do a geometric solution for u, v, and (w + VT), where VT is the fall speed of the precipitation.

G-IV TDR

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