DEEPWAVE campaign completed successfully

  • 26 research flights, 180 flight hours
  • 24 flights with lidar data (1 flight with no telescope viewport, 1 daytime flight)
  • Latitude from 31.2S to 63.4S
  • Longitude from 144.4E to 184.2
  • We covered 32 degrees in latitude and 40 degrees in longitude on the research flights.
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First DEEPWAVE flight 5 June 2014

Telescope viewport has bad gasket, so no lidar observations during the first test flight.

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Getting Ready for DEEPWAVE

I am busy getting ready for the DEEPWAVE campaign in June/July 2014 in New Zealand. I have a ground test campaign at GATS starting next week and upload onto the GV May 12.

Prior ground tests have gone well. Here is a comparison with a radiosonde showing good agreement from 25-32km with the Rayleigh lidar measurements at GATS.

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