Weather summary (Bachelor-Thesis, Tobias Kuechler)    PDF

Research Flights
# Date Discription HH P5 HH P6 Data P5 Data P6 Track Log
1 April 28 Horizontal convective roll clouds above open water drifting onto sea ice 2:57 2:53 kml kml
2 April 30 Low level clouds in a cold sector of a low with different cloud top altitudes 2:41 2:23 kml kml
3 May 1 Thin cloud/fog layer 1:41 1:56 kml kml
4 May 3 Single and double layer liquid dominated cloud 2:31 3:16 kml kml
5 May 6 Single and multilayer clouds with increasing cloud top in the tail of a frontal system 3:21 2:52 kml kml
6 May 8 Solid uninterrupted stratus cloud deck 3:32 3:29 kml kml
7 May 10 Two adjoint but different persistent stratus clouds 3:43 3:03 kml kml
8 May 11 Clear sky flight (Aerosol/Trace Gas and Surface Albedo) 4:13 3:52 kml kml
9 May 13 Clear sky flight (Aerosol/Trace Gas) ----- 3:44 ----- kml
10 May 14 Horizontal homogeneous and thick stratus 3:37 2:44 kml kml
11 May 16 Precipitating midlevel clouds 2:45 2:41 kml kml
12 May 17 Chaotic cloud situation including low, mid-level and high clouds 1:30 1:33 kml kml
13 May 20 Persistant low level clouds (A-Train overpass) 3:14 2:41 kml kml
14 May 22 Persistent low level clouds before a front passage 2:05 1:53 kml kml
15 May 22 Disintegrating stratus behind a front 2:21 3:02 kml kml
16 May 23 Clear Sky Flight (Aerosol + midlevel clouds) 1:11 1:45 kml kml
Flight Summary - Google Earth kmz-file:


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