Potential Vorticity, Temperature, Flight Track

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Potential Vorticity, Temperature, Flight Track
Temperature Curtain Plots For EUPLEX MJ
Mahoney April 27, 2003 Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) California Institute of Technology Pasadena,
CA
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• Acknowledgements Notes
• Acknowledgements
• Potential Vorticity (PV) and Temperature plots
  are from the NASA GSFC Code 916 SOLVE2 archive
• Flight tracks and color-coded temperature
  curtains (CTCs) are from the Microwave
  Temperature Profiler (MTP) data analysis for
  EUPLEX
• Support for MTP participation in EUPLEX came
  from Dr. Mike Kurylo of the NASA Upper Atmosphere
  Research Program (UARP)
• Notes
• Numbers on the flight tracks are the time in UT
  kiloseconds. The x-axes on the CTCs are also in
  kiloseconds (ks).
• The upper plot on the left is the temperature at
  50 hPa, the lower plot on the left is the PV on
  the 480 K potential temperature surface.

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Note MTP had no pointing corrections on this
flight because UCSE failed