Abstract

This paper reports on a series of research flights with the ADLS installed on the NASA/Ames Convair 990, Galileo II, during the summer of 1981. These flights resulted in extensive data sets on a variety of atmospheric phenomena: boundary layer flows, gust fronts, cloud entrainment, pollution transport, and terrain effects. The test program consisted of some 21 flights ranging in duration from three to five hours for a total of eighty hours. The flights were conducted in California in the Central Valley and near the San Gorgonio Pass, in Oklahoma at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, and in Montana during the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE). A number of comparisons were obtained in the course of the flights involving towers, ground based radars, and instrumented aircraft.