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The HOP fills an important gap in airborne observation facilities. For the purpose of measuring turbulent fluxes and aerosol characteristics in the atmospheric boundary layer, an airborne platform that is capable of sampling undisturbed air at low airspeed (~30 m/s) and at various altitudes, from a few feet above the ground to about 12,000 feet MSL, offers a very unique capability that is quite essential and unmatched by other airborne platforms.
The HOP has participated in a few field campaigns in 2007, and it is scheduled to participate in others in the near future. This section provides a brief summary of these field campaigns.

Data Sharing Policy
We are committed to provide the data collected during the flights that we have performed for our own research as soon as they have been detrended and denoised (see Holder et al 2009 for the methodology employed). Data collected during "service" missions (i.e., when we perform flights for another research group) will be treated as the PI's property, and they will be included here only at the PI's request and in the form (either raw or processed) that he/she wishes.

References

  • Holder, H.E., A.M. Bolch and R. Avissar, 2009. Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method to process turbulence data collected on board aircraft. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., submitted.