Flight plan - ATR-20240826a

Flight plan

• The flight is planned to take off at 2024-08-26 18:00:00+00:00 UTC and land at 2024-08-26 21:30:00+00:00 UTC.

• Flight track designed to sample conditions behind the African Easterly Wave Trough

• Previous flight followed the same track and sampled conditions ahead of the African Easterly Wave Trough (the trough passed by in-between flights)

• NOTE: flight plan was modified in-flight to sample deep convection further to the south of the planned waypoints

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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, 26, 12, 0, 0)

radius = 70e3 # units: km

airport = sal
wp1 = LatLon(lat=16.766, lon=-22.749, label='wp1')
wp2 = LatLon(lat=15.618, lon=-21.242, 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)
ax.set_extent([-24, -21, 14.8, 17])

plot_cwv(cwv_flight_time)

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import pandas as pd
from dataclasses import asdict

pd.DataFrame.from_records(map(asdict, path)).set_index("label")

	lat	lon	fl	time	note
label
SAL	16.734488	-22.943974	0.0	None	None
wp1	16.766000	-22.749000	NaN	None	None
wp2	15.618000	-21.242000	NaN	None	None
wp1	16.766000	-22.749000	NaN	None	None
SAL	16.734488	-22.943974	0.0	None	None

Crew

Job	Name
Pilot	None
Pilot	None
Mechanics	None
Expé Principal	None
Expé	None
PI	Louis Jaffeux
LNG	None
aWALI	None
Microphys 1	None
Microphys 2	None
RASTA	None
BASTA	None