Flight Info Book
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/107.004

Summary
This dataset contains flight and meteorological background information in the
form of a four panel image for each flight. The panels are as follows: Upper
left: 3D GV flight track with the tropopause. The thermal tropopause is shown
in yellow, the 2 pvu surface is shown in purple. Jet streams are shown in
blue. The flight track is colored by the ozone value. Lower left: GV ground
track in Google Earth. Lat/Lon for the major way points are given. Upper
right: space-time interpolated curtain along the flight track (in UT time).
Meteorological variables included are: static stability in potential
temperature lapse rate (color image), potential vorticity (purple), wind speed
(thick black), isentropes (thin black). Vertical coordinates are pressure
altitude (km, left) and pressure (log scale, right) Lower right: 3D GV track
with map. Vertical coordinates are in Kft. Additional pages with measurement
information will be included in the next version.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 107.004
 * doi:10.26023/8XNF-E5FN-DB0N
   https://doi.org/10.26023/8XNF-E5FN-DB0N

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Pittman, J., Pan, L. 2009. START08: Flight Info Book. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR
 - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/8XNF-E5FN-DB0N
 Accessed 25 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
 * START08: Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START08)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/START08

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: multiple
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft

Platforms
 * NSF/NCAR GV HIAPER

Instruments
 * Not Applicable

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > TROPOPAUSE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VORTICITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN COMPOUNDS > ATMOSPHERIC OZONE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS > GEOLOCATION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES > ENVIRONMENTAL LAPSE RATE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED

Documentation
 * START08_flightInfo_intro.png [77 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/419E0553A13/START08_flightInfo_intro.png
 * START08_flightInfo_titlePage.png [91 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/419E0553A0F/START08_flightInfo_titlePage.png

Related links
 * homepage: EOL START08 Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/start08
 * info: START08 Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/start_08/missions/missions.html
 * info: START08 Project Data Policy
   https://www.acom.ucar.edu/start/DataProtocolForSTART08_PREHIPPO.pdf

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2008-04-18 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2008-06-27 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 63.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 25.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -118.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -86.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Laura Pan <liwen@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1463
 * author: Jasna V. Pittman <jvpittman@gmail.com>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2307

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/107.004?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/107.004?format=isotc211