Middle Latitude Cirrus Experiment
Weather
- 1
- Deployment
2004-04-14 2004-05-15 - 3
- Platforms
- 0
- Data Products
The Campaign
The WB-57 Middle Latitude Cirrus Experiment (MidCiX) was a NASA field investigation that focused on studying the microphysical properties of cirrus clouds to improve cloud property retrievals for satellite observations. MidCiX had one deployment over the south-central United States from April to May 2004. The NASA WB-57 aircraft was equipped with several in situ cloud probes to measure cloud microphysical properties such as particle size distribution, mass, and habit. The aircraft flew in the vicinity of the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) central facility to collect correlative ground-based measurements. MidCiX was a joint effort with the Department of Energy (DoE) and was funded through NASA’s Radiation Sciences program.
WB MidCiX, WB57 MidCiX
N: 41°N
S: 25°N
W: 106°W
E: 88°W
Additional Notes
Repositories
other NASA repository not formally considered a DAAC by ESDS
