VOCALS-UK ARSF Status

Grant Allen(grant.allen@manchester.ac.uk)

VOCALS Planning Meeting, Manchester, 29th July 2008

ARSF – Important Dates

11 Aug – 18 Aug – Pylons onboard for PCASP test etc

19 August – Pylons shipped to Arica29 Sep – 3 Oct – Instrument Fit, Kiddlington6 – 10 Oct – ARSF leave / Contingency10 Oct – Lidar Fit16 – 24 Oct – Transit to Arica26 Oct – 14 Nov – Science flying16 Nov – 26 Nov – Transit to Kidlington and de-fit

Instruments/Status

• Eagle/Hawk – Hyperspectral imagers (Vis-NIR) – Approved, ARSF-operated

• Aerosol Lidar – Leosphere. Approved, Hugo Ricketts• AIMMS-20 – Thermodynamics and turbulence, OK• Grimm 1.09 – OPC 3-25 um - OK• PCASP-100 – Approved. Shipped end of July, Need to

get to ARSF quickly for test before pylons are shipped.• Aerosol Lidar, shipped by Leosphere. Fitted 10-13th Oct• FSSP-100 – Coarse mode aerosol/cloud• Polarimeter – Thomas Ruhtz

Personnel / Crew Rotation

• 4 Seats – Mission Scientist, Eagle/Hawk operator, Lidar Operator, Polarimeter operator

• 3 pilots, 2 ARSF technical staff (Phil Goy + Gary Llewelyn)

• No double-crewing of aircrew! 7/8th Nov hard down days due to switchover

Data Flow

• Eagle/Hawk – QA assessed in field, Calibrated images processed by PML (1 month turnaround).

• Lidar – QA assessed in field. Possible quick-looks/images.

• Thermodynamic and aerosol instruments – Assessed in field, quick-looks available.

• All data backed up to a central hard-drive/server