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GRIP Dry Run – September 2009

In preparation for the GRIP experiment a GRIP Dry Run will take place in September 2009. The dry run will be conducted in real time beginning September 1 and continuing through September 30. The purpose of the dry run is to design and exercise the flight strategies and plans to meet different GRIP science goals. The Real Time Mission Monitor and Waypoint Planning Tool will be utilized during the dry run for mission planning activities. These tools may be activated from the links below.

Click to Start the Real Time Mission Monitor for the GRIP Dry Run

GloPac

Proposed flights of the Global Hawk for the Global Hawk Pacific Mission (GloPac) are to be conducted in support of the Aura Validation Experiment (AVE). This mission will take place out of Dryden Flight Research Center and is expected to encompass the entire offshore Pacific region with four to five 30 hour flights. Aura is one of the A-train satellites supported by NASA Earth Observation System.

The flights are designed to address various science objectives:

1. validation and scientific collaboration with NASA earth-monitoring satellite missions, principally the Aura satellite,
2. observations of stratospheric trace gases in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from the mid-latitudes into the tropics,
3. sampling of polar stratospheric air and the break-up fragments of the air that move into the mid-latitudes,
4. measurements of dust, smoke, and pollution that cross the Pacific from Asia and Siberia,
5. measurements of streamers of moist air from the central tropical Pacific that move onto the West Coast of the United States (atmospheric rivers).

Real Time Mission Monitor use in GloPac

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Experiment - 2010

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment is a NASA Earth Science field experiment that will be conducted in summer of 2010. The goal is to gain a better understanding of how tropical disturbances form, develop and intensify into major hurricanes. NASA plans to use the DC-8 aircraft and the Global Hawk Unmanned Airborne System (UAS) as the aircraft for this experiment.  A description of the project, the instruments that will be deployed, and research projects that will be conducted are available at the NASA Research Opportunities web site. GRIP deployment is planned in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for the DC-8, and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, California, for the Global Hawk.

[Please note that you must have previously installed Google Earth to run the Real Time Mission Monitor]

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Waypoint Planning Tool

For more information about the GRIP mission see the GRIP Website.