Flight plan - KA-20240820a

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Flight plan - KA-20240820a#

ec_under ec_track in_cloud spiral_mindelo insitu_aerosol

Crew#

The flight is planned to take off at 2024-08-20 13:50:00+00:00.

Flying WP1 -> WP3 at FL030 (in-cloud if possible) and meet EC and ATR at 15:50 UTC.

Spiral ascent over Mindelo supersite.

Job

Name

PI

Robert Oscar David

Instrument operator

Sorin Ghemulet

Instrument operator

Alex Vlad

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, 20, 0, 0, 0)
issued_time_str = issued_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

flight_time = datetime(2024, 8, 20, 12, 0, 0)
flight_time_str = flight_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
flight_index = f"KA-{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)

airport = LatLon(lat=14.945, lon=-23.4863889, label='RAI')
north_ec = LatLon(lat=18.978419, lon=-24.783502, label='north_ec')
earthcare = LatLon(lat=18.137417, lon=-24.951843, label='earthcare')
south_ec = LatLon(lat=17.360981, lon=-25.106269, label='south_ec')
mindelo = LatLon(lat=16.877772, lon=-24.995374, label='mindelo')
atr = LatLon(lat=18.14975, lon=-24.94933056, label='atr@ec')

leg_out = [
     airport,
     north_ec
]

leg_calval = [
     north_ec,
     atr,
     earthcare,
     south_ec
]

leg_mindelo_spiral = [
     south_ec,
     mindelo
]

leg_home = [
     mindelo,
     airport
]

path = leg_out + leg_calval + leg_mindelo_spiral + leg_home 

cat = intake.open_catalog("https://tcodata.mpimet.mpg.de/internal.yaml")
ds = cat.HIFS(datetime=issued_time).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: 2024-08-20
Flight date: 2024-08-20
Flight index: KA-20240820a
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import pandas as pd
from dataclasses import asdict

pd.DataFrame.from_records(map(asdict, [north_ec, earthcare, south_ec, mindelo])).set_index("label")
lat lon fl time note
label
north_ec 18.978419 -24.783502 None None None
earthcare 18.137417 -24.951843 None None None
south_ec 17.360981 -25.106269 None None None
mindelo 16.877772 -24.995374 None None None
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