GRIP DC-8 METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (MMS) V1

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The GRIP DC-8 Meteorological measurement System (MMS) dataset was collected by the Meteorological Measurement System (MMS), which provides high-resolution, accurate meteorological parameters (pressure, temperature, turbulence index, and the 3-dimensional wind vector). The MMS hardware consists of 3 major systems: an air-motion sensing system to measure air velocity with respect to the aircraft, an aircraft-motion sensing system to measure the aircraft velocity with respect to the Earth, and a data acquisition system to sample, process, and record the measured quantities. In addition to making the in flight measurements, a major and necessary step is the post mission systematic calibration and data processing. The primary data set consists of 1 Hz meteorological data (P, T, 3D winds). The secondary data set at 20 Hz includes the meteorological data and additional parameters such as Potential-Temperature; True-Air-Speed; aircraft GPS position, velocities, attitudes, acceleration and air flow data (angle-of-attack, sideslip) from August 10, 2010 through September 25, 2010. The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment was a NASA Earth science field experiment. The major goal was to better understand how tropical storms form and develop into major hurricanes. NASA used the DC-8 aircraft, the WB-57 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS), configured with a suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments that were used to observe and characterize the lifecycle of hurricanes.

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5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dgripmms
5 http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fuso%2Fds_docs%2Fgrip%2Fgripmms%2Fgripmms_dataset.html
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Ffield-campaigns%2FGRIP
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov%2Fhome%2Fabout-ghrc%2Fciting-ghrc-daac-data
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gripmms
21 gripmms_dataset.html http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/grip/gripmms/gripmms_dataset.html
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/GRIP
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gripmms
21 gripmms_dataset.html http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/grip/gripmms/gripmms_dataset.html
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/GRIP
5 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1979856245-GHRC_DAAC.iso19115

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  • earth-science-atmospheric-temperature-atmosphere-surface-temperature-air-temperature
  • earth-science-platform-characteristics-spectral-engineering-airspeed-ground-speed
  • earth-science-sensor-characteristics-spectral-engineering-total-pressure
  • earth-science-sensor-characteristics-spectral-engineering-total-temperature
  • earth-science-atmospheric-pressure-atmosphere-static-pressure
  • earth-science-atmospheric-winds-atmosphere-upper-level-winds-flight-level-winds

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