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WISP91: Winter Icing and Storms Project: 1991

Summary

WISP-91  was the second (WISP-90) in a series of depoyments  sponsored by NCAR, NOAA and the FAA.  Primary goals were to invistigate the production and depletion of supercooled liquid water in winter storms and thereby enhance aircr5aft safety through improved forecasts of icing conditions.  Deployment of 39 PAM stations, 5 fixed CLASS systems and one mobile CLASS system covered a wide areao of northeastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming and southwestern Nebraska.

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Datasets from this project

Additional information

GCMD Name V - Z > WISP > Winter Icing and Storms Project > a0d64b73-fb48-4d27-b1a5-601fe18af09e
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Temporal coverage

Begin Date 1991-01-15 00:00:00
End Date 1991-04-12 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 38.50
Minimum (West) Longitude: -106.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -102.50

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.