HIAPER and EOL

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HIAPER and EOLs Mission to Meet Community
Deployment, Development, and Data Services Needs
Roger M. Wakimoto Associate Director Earth
Observing Laboratory
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Its been a long road
Hildebrand and McCarthy (1983), Bull. Amer.
Meteor. Soc. (report of a community workshop) -
.. The aircraft that clearly were
identified as having the highest priority for
enhancement were the small-to-medium jet aircraft
.. the Gulfstream-II or Canadair Challenger
..
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EOL Reorganization Structure and New Management
Jothiram Vivekanandam
Steve Cohn
Jeff Stith
Jack Fox
Brigitte Baeuerle
Alan Fried
Mike Daniels
New Managers were announced September 16
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To oversee the transition of HIAPER from an
aircraft to a research platform
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EOL Serves the Atmospheric Research Community
with (list below is relevant to HIAPER)

• Deployment
• With over 40 years experience in coordinating
  large, complex field programs, EOL offers
  operational, technical, logistical and data
  support in an effort to effectively drive
  progress in atmospheric research.
• Development
• Instrumentation is at the heart of scientific
  achievements and understanding of our Earth
  Systems. EOL promotes the new technology
  development that observes a variety of weather
  and climate in innovative ways.
• Data Services
• EOL develops and provides software tools for data
  display, delivers datasets to users via the WWW,
  and maintains data archives for use by all
  researchers.
• Education and Outreach
• EOL engages in robust EO efforts in all of our
  programs, including support for Field Projects,
  Biocomplexity, Engineering Interns, and
  technology development

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Research Aviation Facility Jeff Stith, Facility
Manager
RAF houses and maintains EOLs research aircraft
and instrumentation.

• Atmospheric Boundary Layer Surveys
• Oceanographic Investigations
• Air/Sea Interaction Measurements
• Cloud Physics Studies
• Tropospheric Profiling
• Radiometric Measurements
• Atmospheric Chemistry Sampling
• Aerosol Measurements

HIAPER
C-130
NRL P-3
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RAF Field Project Support
Project Management Scientists Software
Engineers Electrical/instrumentation
Engineers Aeronautical Engineers Technicians Aircr
aft Mechanics Pilots Flight Engineers
Mechanics Industry Standard or better
training Participation in project
planning/feasibility RAF Safety committee
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RAF HIAPER Status

• Standard Certificate of Airworthiness, Transport
  Category
• October 14, 2005
• A significant milestone Completion/certification
  of the first stage of modifications, including
  installation of data system, state-parameter
  sensors, satellite communications link, radome
  gust probe, GPS and inertial reference systems,
  data telemetry, and others.

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RAF Recent HIAPER Flights

• Pilot Proficiency Flights August 2005
• Infrastructure Test Flights Sept 2005
• Some normal data-quality issues, including
  temperature calibration, highest-rate wind
  measurements, etc.

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Planned usage - 250-300 hours per year
for each aircraft (HIAPER and C-130) 400 hours
per year as the long-term goal - 2
medium-sized deployments per year for each
aircraft - RAF steady-state. 1/3 with
HIAPER, 1/3 with C130, and 1/3 other activities
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RAF HIAPER Immediate Future

• Progressive Science flights start 21 November
• Minimal payload and instrumentation
• Objectives
• research mode operating experience
• continue check-out of instrumentation
• simple science objectives
• T-REX Feb 06 study of terrain-induced rotors
  over the Sierras
• Vanda Grubisic, Joachim Kuettner, Ron Smith, and
  others
• Flights will be conducted from JEFFCO

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Field Project Services Brigitte Baeuerle,
Facility Manager

FPS provides cost effective, comprehensive and
scalable project management support services to
EOL facilities, the NSF-supported scientific
research community and others. Scientific,
technical and administrative support services are
provided for the purpose of planning, organizing
and implementing research programs and associated
field projects worldwide. FPS serves as the
coordination point for all EOL scientific field
deployments, carried out in close coordination
with all facilities particularly CDS.
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FPS Main Responsibilities

Direct Support of NSF/EOL Lower Atmospheric
Observing Facilities Comprehensive, Scalable
Support of Scientific User Community (NSF and
other)
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FPS Services

Program Planning and Field Implementation
Provide the requisite infrastructure for
effective development of program/project field
design and implementation plans, management of
field operations for the accomplishment of the
scientific objectives, and all relevant
communications. Logistics Provide specialized
logistics support and organizational management
tailored for the effective and efficient
implementation of domestic and international
field projects. Education and Outreach Support
education activities related to activities in
program support, and field projects.
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FPS Specialized Services

• Observing Facilities Assessment Panel (OFAP)
• Interface PI/Facilities (International,
  Multi-national, Multi-agency)
• Prepare Operations Plans and Project Timelines
• International Relationships
• Customs, Immigration, Coordination with Local
  Host
• Site Selection, Negotiations, Leases, Space
• Shipping, Transport and Customs
• Equipment Rental, Purchased Services

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FPS Specialized Services

• Operations Management (ATC Coordination, Facility
  Direction)
• Communications Plan (CDS)
• Forecast Coordination (Data Access, Display,
  Experts)
• Operations Centers
• Staffing and Personnel
• Lodging
• Field Catalog (CDS)
• Security
• Safety, Health
• Media

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Computing, Data and Software Mike Daniels,
Facility Manager
CDS is responsible for developing and maintaining
the integrity, capability, flexibility and
currency of the computing infrastructure, data
services, collaborative tools and software of the
EOL, guided by and in service of our community.
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CDS Main Responsibilities

• Computing infrastructure in the office
• Collaborative tools and web engineering used to
  connect our community
• Data acquisition software, real-time displays and
  data management for all supported projects
• Data management services for field campaign and
  subsequent research efforts, including
  stewardship and curatorship

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CDS Data acquisition software, real-time displays
and data management for all supported projects
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CDS Special projects the RDCC as used in RAINEX
during hurricane Rita
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Virtual Operations CenterVOC components New
integratedvisualization tools
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VOC components Near real-time forecastmodel
assimilation
Using NCARs WRF model in near real-time
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VOC components New communicationsand
collaboration technologies
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VOC components Control of instrumentsfrom the
Internet
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VOC components Field ProjectSimulation
Laboratory

• Modeled after labs currently in place for major
  EOL platforms
• Used for pre-deployment scenarios
• PI training
• Education (all levels) in the use of field
  instrumentation.

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Data Flow (in real-time to ground-based displays)
EOLs Zebra
Data Delivery via IDD/LDM through satcom or
LAN/WAN
netCDF
Postgres DB
Chat, wiki/forum, Field Catalog
UNIDATAs IDV
EOL Aeros Displays
and, soon, the VOC
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Post-flight display tools ncplot
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Post-flight displays PMS-2D Display/Analysis
Raw PMS-2D
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New HIAPER displays aeros
Platform independent, attaches to databases or
files (post-flight)
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HIAPER Metadata and Data Access
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EOLs Potential Projects FY2006 through FY 2008
- Potential HIAPER Projects