CHILL-TEX 2002 Raw Flight Data

1.0 General Description

This data set contains raw flight data for flights that the South Dakota School
of Mines and Technology (SDSMT) T-28 aircraft flew for the Greeley 2002
Polarimetric radar hydrometeor identification, and NOx production by lightning 
(CHILL-TEX 2002) Project.  Data are included for the flights 781, 782 and 785
that occurred from 6/11/2002 through 6/16/2002.


2.0 Data Contact

Dr. Andrew Detwiler
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 394-1995
Andrew dot Detwiler at sdsmt dot edu


3.0 File Naming Convention

fxxxhail.raw - raw hail data
fxxxhvps.raw - raw hvps data
fxxx_2dc.raw - raw 2dc data
fltxxx.raw - raw flight data
fltxxx.rnd - reduced data
fltxxx.src - src data
where xxx is the three digit flight number.
There is also a tables directory with multiple tables containing calibration
and other data.  The files are contained in one tar-gzipped file for each 
flight with the tables data contained in an additional tar-gzipped file.  
These data files should be untarred in the same directory location.  The 
resulting directories will be yr2002/fxxx and yr2002/tables.


4.0 Other Documentation

For additional information please see:

CHILL-TEX 2002 website: 
   http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/t28/projects/chill-tex2002
T-28 general information website: http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/t28