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Thunderstorm Overflight ProgramThe 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.
Document ID
19810028958
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Vaughan, O. H., Jr.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Atmospheric Sciences Div., Huntsville, Ala., United States)
Vonnegut, B.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Orville, R.
(New York, State University Albany, N.Y., United States)
Brook, M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Tennis, R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Rhodes, C.
(New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, N. Mex., United States)
Rust, D.
(NOAA, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman Okla., United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1980
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
AIAA PAPER 80-1934
Meeting Information
Meeting: Sensor Systems for the 80''s Conference
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Start Date: December 2, 1980
End Date: December 4, 1980
Accession Number
81A13362
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-32893
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASA ORDER H-39299-B
CONTRACT_GRANT: N0014-75-C-0167
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-33817
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF ATM-78-19960
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Public
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