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AR = atmospheric rivers reconnaissance campaign, carried out over 
     East Pacific during winter seasons from Nov to next March.

More information about AR Recon. can be found here: 
https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/arrecon_data/

TC = tropical cyclone surveillance and research campaigns, carried 
     out over Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during summer 
     seasons from July to Nov.

More information about tropical cyclone can be found here: 
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

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Available aircraft as of 2024/07:

Identifier 	Aircraft_type	Agency	Tail#

N49T 		G-IVSP 		NOAA 	N49RF
N43T		WP-3  		NOAA   	N43RF
A0XT  		WC-130  	USAF	AF30X, X-0,1,...,9

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Available datasets as of 2024/07:

AR2018: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-27
AR2020: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-13
AR2021: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-13
AR2022: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-20
AR2023: Level2/atmPrf@2023-10-25
AR2024: Level2/atmPrf@2024-02-25
TC2020: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-09
TC2022: Level2/atmPrf@2023-11-09

Pending final processing and QC:

TC2023, TC2024

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Any use of this data must cite the papers below and contain 
the following acknowledgement.

The airborne radio occultation (ARO) data is provided by Jennifer 
Haase at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of
California San Diego, through the support of the National Science 
Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and 
the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes.

Haase, J. S., Murphy, M. J., Cao, B., Ralph, F. M., Zheng, M., & 
Delle Monache, L. (2021). Multi-GNSS airborne radio occultation 
observations as a complement to dropsondes in atmospheric river 
reconnaissance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, 
e2021JD034865. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034865

Haase, J. S., B. J. Murphy, P. Muradyan, F. Nievinski, 
K. M. Larson, J. L. Garrison, and K.-N. Wang (2014), 
First Results from an Airborne GPS Radio Occultation System for 
Atmospheric Profiling, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 1759-1765.

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Contacts:

Jennifer Haase (jhaase@ucsd.edu) and Bing Cao (bic020@ucsd.edu)

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