NAMMA DC-8 NAVIGATION AND HOUSEKEEPING (ICATS) V1

Description

The NAMMA DC-8 Navigation and Housekeeping (ICATS) dataset is designed to: 1) interface and process avionics and environmental paramaters from the Navigational Management System, GPS, Central Air Data Computer, Embedded GPS/INS, and analog voltage sources from aircraft and experimenters; 2) Furnish engineering unit values of selected parameters and computed functions for real-time video display, and archive ASCII data at experimenter stations; and 3) Archive engineering unit values of 'Appendix A' (to the ICATS document included with dataset documentation) on data storage for post flight retrieval. These data files were generated during support of the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign, a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namdc8nav
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/DC8-Nav/browse/
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/DC8-Nav/browse/NAMMA_ICATS_20060904_FLIGHT_MAP.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/browse_sample/fieldCampaigns/namma/namdc8nav/NAMMA_ICATS_20060904_PLOTS.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/namma/namdc8nav/namdc8nav_dataset.html
21 ICATS Serial Output Format: Appendix B https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namdc8nav/icats_format_readme.txt
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/namma
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 NASA DC-8, AIRBORNE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTER HANDBOOK Ch 7 - CH10 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namdc8nav/DC8_Handbook-3.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNAMMA%2FNAV%2FDATA201
33 OUTPUT PARAMETERS FROM ICATS: AIRBORNE SCIENCE DC-8 INFORMATION COLLECTION AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM (ICATS) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namdc8nav/ICATS_appendix_2.pdf

Tags

  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • sensor-characteristics
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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