NCAR/ATD Research Aviation Facility

Project Number Assignments (Active Aircraft)

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100 Series: NSF/NCAR C-130Q (N130AR)
Project numbers to be assigned after project's approval

Assigned Number	Project Name
101	SHEBA (Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic ocean) (1998)
102	INDOEX (INdian Ocean EXperiment) (1999)
103	Infrared Solar Corona (1998)
104	Soil Moisture (1999)
105	Sulfur Instrumentation Test (1999)
106	WiFE (Wild Fires Experiment) (1998)
107	Sea Salinity (2000)
108	PALS Soil Moisture (SMEX02)/Sea Salinity (2002)
109	AIRS-II (Alliance Icing Research Study - II) (2003)
110	Coastally Trapped Waves (1996)
111	IDEAS-1 (Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science, Phase 1) (2002)
112	IDEAS-2 (Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science, Phase 2) (2002)
113	IDEAS-3 (Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science, Phase 3) (2003)
114	PASE (Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment) (2007)
115	ICE-L (Ice in Clouds Experiment) (2008)
116	VOCALS-REX (VAMOS [Variablilty of the American MOnsoon Systems] Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study -- Regional EXperiment) (2009)
117	PLOWS (Profiling of Winter Storms) (2009)
118	ICE-T (Ice in Clouds Experiment - Tropical) (2011)
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120	BASE (Beaufort Arctic Storms Experiment) (1994)
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125	ACME (Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment) (2004)
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127	Marine Stratus Cloud Tops (1994)
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130	ACE-1 (first Aerosol Characterization Experiment) (1995)
131	ACE-Asia (Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment) (2001)
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135	RICO (Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean) (2004)
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143	TOPSE (Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox) (2000)
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145	MIRAGE (Megacities Impact on Regional And Global Environment) (2006)
146	INTEX-B (INtercontinental chemical Transport EXperiment B2) (2006)
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Assigned Number	Project Name
150	GOTEX (Gulf Of Tehuantepec EXperiment), Coupled Development of Ocean Waves and Boundary Layers (2004)
151	CAINE (Community Aerosol INlet Evaluation program - Phase I) (1995)
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161	EPIC2001 (Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System) (2001)
162	SCMS (Small Cumulus Microphysics Study) (1995)
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167	CAINE-II (Community Aerosol INlet Evaluation program - Phase II) (1997)
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181	DYCOMS-II (the DYnamics and Chemistry Of Marine Stratocumulus, Phase II: Entrainment Studies) (2001)
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186	PELTI (Passing Efficiency of the Low-Turbulence Inlet) (2000)
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198	Testbed for script development. Not a real Project
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500 Series: NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V (N677F)
Project numbers to be assigned after project's approval

Assigned Number	Project Name
501	GV_test (G-V Tests) (2005)
502	ProgSci (Progressive Science) (2005)
503	T-REX (Terrain-induced Rotor EXperiment) (2006)
504	TrailCone06 (Trailing Cone test) (2006)
505	SPODS () (2007)
506	PACDEX (PACific Dust EXperiment) (2007)
507	HEFT07 (HAIS Experimental Flight Tests) (2007)
508	HEFT08 (HAIS Experimental Flight Tests) (2008) / GISMOS
509	GVWSVT (G-V Wing Store Vibration Tests 2A) (2007)
510	START08 (Stratosperic-Tropospheric Analyses of Regional Transport) (2008)
511	HIPPO (HAIPER Pole to Pole Observations - Phase I) (2008)
512	PodCertGV (GV Large Pod Certification Project) (2009)
513	ADELE/SPRITE (Development of the Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emissions / High Time-Resolution Sprite Imaging) (2009)
514	HIPPO-2 (HAIPER Pole to Pole Observations - Phase II) (2009)
515	HEFT10 (HAIS Experimental Flight Tests) (2010)
516	HIPPO-3 (HAIPER Pole to Pole Observations - Phase III) (2010)
517	PREDICT (Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics) (2010)
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599	RAF_Lab (G-V Wing Store Vibration Tests 1) (2007)

300 Series: NRL P-3
Project numbers to be assigned after project's approval

Assigned Number	Project Name
301	IHOP_2002 (International H₂O Project) (2002)
302	CRYSTAL-FACE (Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Area Cirrus Experiment) (2002)
303	BAMEX (Bow echo And MCV [Mesoscale Convective Vortices] EXperiment) (2003)
304	RAINEX (hurricane RAinband and INtensity-change EXperiment) (2005)
305	T-PARC (THORPEX [The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment] Pacific Asian Regional Campaign) (2008)
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Last update: Tue Jul 1 17:32:14 GMT 2008