29may       Ankur

29 May was a nice clear day in the western half of the state.  We flew an
ABL mission using the King Air to the west, the NRL P-3 doing a larger
area moisture map and the Falcon running N-S long legs (plus a few E-W)
over the King Air.  Beautiful BL structure (1-3 km differences in ABL
depth in both the E-W and N-S directions!).  I almost got to fly on the
DLR Falcon, but at the last minute they needed my seat for a technician to
deal with the dropsonde system.  I blasted my ears standing in front of
the DLR jet engines for an hour waiting on standby, and then again in
front of the P-3 taking pictures.  For this mission, we also had Yvette
(Richardson) and Josh (Wurman) take the mobile Doppler on Wheels out over
to the Homestead/S-Pol area to take quad doppler images (12 Gigs worth)
around the King Air track.