[Cpex-cv-all] [EXTERNAL] CPEX-CV Deployment Wrapup

[Zawislak, Jonathan A]

Good afternoon team,

With the arrival of the DC-8 back in Palmdale yesterday, and the return of all participants, we wanted to close out the field deployment phase of CPEX-CV by sending our sincere thank you to all of you on this incredible team. Thank you for all of your dedication and hard work in the preparation and execution of the field campaign. The payoff was 13 DC-8 science flights out of Sal (see attached images), as well as science on the two trans-Atlantic transits, covering science across our mission scorecard and ensuring that we have a wealth of unique measurements to research in the coming months. The program wasn’t without its challenges, but you persevered through those challenges — digestive ailments, a mid-deployment shift to an early AM flight schedule (during a nightly festival), having to cover multiple roles, and being away from family for long periods. We saw remarkable support for one another through the good times, and the challenging — the sign of a great team.

A special shout out too to our early career scientists — your leadership in forecasting and mission science onboard the airplane and on the ground was incredible to watch. We hope your experience in the program has been fruitful and motivating. You worked the hardest of all and the program could not have achieved success without you.

A look at the path ahead…many of the flight reports are completed, and all others are pretty far into the process of being completed. We’ll be working with the individual flight scientists in the coming days to get those to completion. Once we finalize them, we’ll be posting them to the Langley document archival with some of the other mission summary documents. Instrument teams — keep up the work on the quicklooks and any initial data upload to the LaRC site, as well. 

Our plan is to have monthly science team telecons beginning in November. These will provide opportunities to update on data processing and research plans. When thinking about your research plans in the future, think also about how you could collaborate across the team.

We’ll be in touch soon. For now, we hope your travels home were safe, and that you’re getting rested up.
Best to all,
Jon, Ed N, and Amin





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Jonathan Zawislak, PhD
Associate Scientist, UM/CIMAS, NOAA/AOML/HRD
4301 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami, FL 33149
305-361-4403 (Office) — on telework, so use cell
302-383-9927 (Cell)
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