Flight plan - ATR-20240813b#
sar_under c_atrFlight plan#
The flight is planned to take off at 2024-08-13 19:15:00+00:00 UTC and land at 2024-08-13 22:45:00+00:00 UTC.
The HALO circle around the ATR-transects will be of radius 70 km centered at 15.5 N, 22.1 W.
flight track designed for coordination with SAR on Sentinel-1 at 19:42 UTC (to study coherent structures near the ocean surface)
opportunity to sample the Northern edge of the ITCZ
nighttime conditions (better range for Raman lidar)
not too far from METOP-B (23 UTC)
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from orcestra.flightplan import sal, bco, LatLon, IntoCircle, path_preview, plot_cwv
from datetime import datetime
import intake
cat = intake.open_catalog("https://tcodata.mpimet.mpg.de/internal.yaml")
date_time = datetime(2024, 8, 6, 12, 0, 0)
date_time_str = date_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
flight_time = datetime(2024, 8, 13, 12, 0, 0)
radius = 70e3 # units: km
circle_atr = LatLon(lat=15.5, lon=-22.1, label="circle_atr")
halo_circle = IntoCircle(circle_atr, radius, 360)
airport = sal
wp1 = LatLon(lat=16.759083, lon=-22.622278, label='wp1')
wp2 = LatLon(lat=14.929167, lon=-22.333083, label='wp2')
path = [airport, wp1, wp2, wp1, airport]
ds = cat.HIFS(refdate=date_time_str, reftime=date_time.hour).to_dask()
cwv_flight_time = ds["tcwv"].sel(time=flight_time, method = "nearest")
ax = path_preview(path)
path_preview([circle_atr.course(0, radius), halo_circle], ax=ax) # HACK: Add HALO circle
ax.scatter(circle_atr.lon, circle_atr.lat, color="tab:orange")
ax.text(circle_atr.lon+0.05, circle_atr.lat, color="tab:orange", s='HALO_Circle', bbox=dict(facecolor='white',edgecolor='white', boxstyle='round,pad=0.1'))
ax.set_extent([-24, -21, 14.8, 17])
plot_cwv(cwv_flight_time)
SAFIRE Flight Plan submitted to Air Traffic Control (ATC)
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import pandas as pd
from dataclasses import asdict
pd.DataFrame.from_records(map(asdict, path+[circle_atr])).set_index("label")
lat | lon | fl | time | note | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
label | |||||
SAL | 16.734488 | -22.943974 | 0.0 | None | None |
wp1 | 16.759083 | -22.622278 | NaN | None | None |
wp2 | 14.929167 | -22.333083 | NaN | None | None |
wp1 | 16.759083 | -22.622278 | NaN | None | None |
SAL | 16.734488 | -22.943974 | 0.0 | None | None |
circle_atr | 15.500000 | -22.100000 | NaN | None | None |
Crew#
Job |
Name |
---|---|
Pilot |
Guillaume Seurat |
Pilot |
Jean-François Bourdinot |
Mechanics |
Thierry André |
Expé Principal |
Clément Bezier |
Expé |
Gilles Vergez |
PI |
Sandrine Bony |
LNG |
Kevin Huet |
aWALI |
Patrick Chazette |
Microphys 1 |
Pierre Coutris |
Microphys 2 |
Thierry Latchimy |
RASTA |
Sophie Bounissou |
BASTA |
Jérémie Lagarrigue |