Flight plan - HALO-20240818a

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Flight plan - HALO-20240818a#

ec_under ec_track c_north c_mid c_south c_atr c_cloud

Crew#

The flight is planned to take off at 2024-08-18 10:00:00+00:00.

Job

Name

PI

Bernhard Mayer

WALES

Tanja Bodenbach

HAMP

Christian Heske

Dropsondes

Therese Mieslinger

Smart/VELOX

Anna Luebke

SpecMACS

Veronica Portge

Scientist

Henning Franke

Ground contact

Florian Ewald

Flight plan#

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from orcestra.flightplan import sal, bco, LatLon, IntoCircle, path_preview, plot_cwv
from datetime import datetime
import intake
import easygems.healpix as egh

cat = intake.open_catalog("https://tcodata.mpimet.mpg.de/internal.yaml")

# Define dates for forecast initialization and flight

issued_time = datetime(2024, 8, 16, 12, 0, 0)
issued_time_str = issued_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

flight_time = datetime(2024, 8, 18, 12, 0, 0)
flight_time_str = flight_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
flight_index = f"HALO-{flight_time.strftime('%Y%m%d')}a"

print("Initalization date of IFS forecast: " + issued_time_str + "\nFlight date: " + flight_time_str + "\nFlight index: " + flight_index)
radius = 130e3
atr_radius = 70e3

airport = sal
north_ec = LatLon(lat=13.1, lon=-28.5167, label='north_ec')

circle_north = LatLon(lat=13.1, lon=-28.5167, label='circle_north')

circle_cloud = LatLon(lat=10.00, lon=-29.0667, label='circle_cloud')

circle_center = LatLon(lat=8.05, lon=-29.4667, label='circle_center')

circle_south = LatLon(lat=3.0, lon=-30.41667, label='circle_south')

south_ec = LatLon(lat=3.0, lon=-30.41667, label='south_ec')

earthcare = LatLon(lat=8.05, lon=-29.4667, label='earthcare')

atr = LatLon(lat=16.4212, lon=-21.8315, label='atr')

leg_south = [
     airport,
     north_ec,
     south_ec
]

leg_circles = [
     IntoCircle(circle_south, radius, 360),
     IntoCircle(circle_center, radius, 360),
     earthcare,
     IntoCircle(circle_cloud, radius*1.5, 360),
     IntoCircle(circle_north, radius, 360),
]
    
leg_home = [
     north_ec,
     IntoCircle(atr, atr_radius, -360, enter = 180),
     airport
]

path = leg_south + leg_circles + leg_home 

cat = intake.open_catalog("https://tcodata.mpimet.mpg.de/internal.yaml")
ds = cat.HIFS(refdate=issued_time_str, reftime=issued_time.hour).to_dask().pipe(egh.attach_coords)
cwv_flight_time = ds["tcwv"].sel(time=flight_time, method = "nearest")

ax = path_preview(path)
plot_cwv(cwv_flight_time)

Initalization date of IFS forecast: 2024-08-16
Flight date: 2024-08-18
Flight index: HALO-20240818a
../_images/d1abd9f20a7b32935c7ba3fceaee86eb164ff51d91d76ea229cf8f7ee3fecf77.png
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import pandas as pd
from dataclasses import asdict

pd.DataFrame.from_records(map(asdict, [north_ec, circle_north, circle_center, circle_south, south_ec, earthcare, atr, circle_cloud])).set_index("label")
lat lon fl time note
label
north_ec 13.1000 -28.51670 None None None
circle_north 13.1000 -28.51670 None None None
circle_center 8.0500 -29.46670 None None None
circle_south 3.0000 -30.41667 None None None
south_ec 3.0000 -30.41667 None None None
earthcare 8.0500 -29.46670 None None None
atr 16.4212 -21.83150 None None None
circle_cloud 10.0000 -29.06670 None None None
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from orcestra.flightplan import export_flightplan

export_flightplan("HALO-20240818a", path)
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