USAF C-130 Flight Logs
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.009

Summary
This data set contains the flight logs from the United States Air Force (USAF)
C-130 aircraft flights into the tropical systems of interest to the Tropical
Cyclone Intensity (TCI) field project. The types of logs include the
diagnostic event log, system event log, mission summary report, Satellite
Communications (SATCOM) transaction log, and height adjustment report. The
storms included are Erika and Joaquin from the 2015 Atlantic region, Marty and
Patricia from the 2015 East Pacific region, and Matthew from the 2016 Atlantic
region. These data are in ASCII formats.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 488.009
 * doi:10.26023/HFTW-1M59-WN0W
   https://doi.org/10.26023/HFTW-1M59-WN0W

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Hurricane Research Division (HRD), NOAA. 2017. TCI: USAF C-130 Flight Logs.
 Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/HFTW-1M59-WN0W Accessed 19 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * TCI: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/TCI

Additional information
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft

Platforms
 * Mission Reports
 * USAF C-130

Instruments
 * Not Applicable

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > WEATHER EVENTS > TROPICAL CYCLONES

Documentation
 * README_USAF_flight_logs.pdf [278 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/532659362F96A/README_USAF_flight_logs.pdf

Related links
 * info: TCI Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/tci/tools/missions
 * info: TCI Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/files_live/private/TCI%20Data%20Policy_010616revised.pdf
 * homepage: TCI Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/tci

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2015-08-25 13:45:00 
 * End datetime: 2016-10-08 06:24:00 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 37.85
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 11.32
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -109.29
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -63.04

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: Hurricane Research Division (HRD), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/486

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.009?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.009?format=isotc211