This page gives access to meteo information prepared by KNMI (Peter van Velthoven) for the SCAVEX experiments that took place in April-May 2001 and April 2002 from Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
The plots are based on ECMWF model analyses.
NOTE: The unit in the plots of ECMWF liquid and ice water content is wrong: it
should be kg/kg instead of kg/m3.
The unit of the Falcon liquid water content is 0.01 kg/m3 (10 g/m3), i.e. I have multiplied the values in the datafiles by 0.1.
| Flight no. | Date | Features |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | ||
| a1 | 5 April 2001 | Stratosphere+low level clouds |
| a2 | 11 April 2001 | Clouds northeast of trough (complex turning wind profile) |
| a3 | 18 April 2001 | Stratosphere+cloud layer+perhaps outflow of uplift |
| a4 | 25 April 2001 | Thin foehn layer affected by subsidence +lee waves |
| a5 | 2 May 2001 | EW, some North African air (uninteresting?) |
| a6 | 3 May 2001 | Possibly foehni outflow +lee waves + air from West Atlantic and North African lowermost troposphere |
| a7 | 4 May 2001 | Occasionally clouds? + Some North African air |
| 2002 | ||
| b1 | 11 April 2002 | Large scale uplift in cloud system over North Italy (interesting case!) |
| b2 | 22 April 2002 | Profiles in frontal cloud band and trough (stratosphere) |
| b3 | 23 April 2002 | High cloud band |
| b4 | 24 April 2002 | EW flight below trough and through frontal clouds north of Alps |