Flight plan - ATR-20240825a

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Flight plan - ATR-20240825a#

sar_under c_atr

Flight plan#

  • The flight is planned to take off at 2024-08-25 19:15:00+00:00 UTC and land at 2024-08-25 22:45:00+00:00 UTC.

  • The HALO circle around the ATR-transects will be of radius 70 km centered.

  • flight track designed for coordination with SAR on Sentinel-1 at 19:42 UTC (to study coherent structures near the ocean surface)

  • nighttime conditions (better range for Raman lidar)

  • two circle locations shown depending on whether ATC can accomodate requested changes

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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, 23, 12, 0, 0)
date_time_str = date_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
flight_time = datetime(2024, 8, 25, 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=16.757, lon=-22.622, label='wp1')
wp2 = LatLon(lat=14.929, lon=-22.333, 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)
../_images/6a1b5f597871664d6897c695f61cee7f0554d4c1702745868e469afa4b0019cb.png

Flight Levels

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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 16.757000 -22.622000 NaN None None
wp2 14.929000 -22.333000 NaN None None
wp1 16.757000 -22.622000 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

Dominique Duchanoy

Pilot

Guillaume Seurat

Mechanics

Thierry André

Expé Principal

Tania Jiang

Expé

Greg Ehses

PI

Marie Lothon

LNG

Sophie Bounissou

aWALI

Frédérique Laly

Microphys 1

Pierre Coutris

Microphys 2

Guy Lefebvre

RASTA

Julien Delanoë

BASTA

Kevin Huet
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