Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment

Location: Offutt, NE  |  Coordinates: 41°07′10″N 095°54′31″W

• HIWRAP was configured in a nadir pointing configuration on the ER-2 in support of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) ground validation.
• Focus was on obtaining combined radar-radiometer data sets for GPM algorithms development.
• The ER-2 carried HIWRAP, AMPR, and CoSMIR.
• MC3E was based at Omaha, Nebraska.
• There were 10 science flights near or over the Oklahoma DOE Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. There were two calibration flights over the Gulf of Mexico.

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