The Thunderstorm Overflight Program is being conducted by NASA, NOAA, and universities to evaluate the feasibility of making meaningful measurements of lightning parameters from an orbiting platform above thunderstorms. A NASA instrumented U-2 high-altitude research aircraft was used during the summer of 1979 and spring of 1980 to collect data over the tops of the thunderstorms while ground-based measurements were being made simultaneously. Test sites at Langmuir Laboratory, Socorro, N. Mex., and the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Okla. were used for this program. Additional flights are planned for the spring and summer of 1981. Data from the NASA U-2 flights will also be used to interpret measurements made during the Nighttime/Daytime Optical Survey Lightning Experiment to be flown on the Space Shuttle in late 1981.


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    Titel :

    Thunderstorm Overflight Program


    Beteiligte:
    Vaughan, O. H., Jr. (Autor:in) / Vonnegut, B. (Autor:in) / Orville, R. (Autor:in) / Brook, M. (Autor:in) / Tennis, R. (Autor:in) / Rhodes, C. (Autor:in) / Rust, D. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Sensor Systems for the 80''s Conference ; 1980 ; Colorado Springs, CO


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1980-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch