NASA field project aimed at investigating microphysics and precipitation for Atlantic Coast-threatening snowstorms. Account managed by University of Washington.
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Erin Potter, who teaches #Meteorology at #SUNYSchenectady, helps lead a team of @ualbany students who recently launched weather balloons from the UAlbany campus as part of a @NASA field campaign called IMPACTS re: snowstorms. sunysccc.edu/News/Between-Cl… #womenshistorymonth
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The IMPACTS team flew their last ever flight on February 28 after three years, 18 weeks of flights, and copious data collected. Just during the 2023 deployment, the P-3 completed 19 flights, and traveled 32,928 miles over the course of 118.2 hours.
ALT An image of two pilots sitting in the cockpit of a P-3 aircraft facing forward. The control panel and its buttons, above and in front of the pilots, are glowing red amidst a dark and dimly lit cockpit. There are monitors in front of the pilots as well.
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Summary of this week's mixed precip event @UAlbanyDAES from our MRR-2 radar, Parsivel distrometer, and @SnowIMPACTS soundings. They nicely highlight the p-type transitions. Credit to grad. student Massey Bartolini for the great plots: atmos.albany.edu/student/mba…
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Gravity waves make small "adjustments" to the melting layer over Long Island @SoMAS @NSF @BrookhavenLab @SnowIMPACTS
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Excited about today's @SnowIMPACTS flight because we're observing electrified snowbands which are not producing #lightning, but generating fields on the order of 100-200 V m-1. Key measurements for understanding how these systems charge up and also generate lots of snow. #mewx
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Today @cmuweather students helped @Chasin_Jason launch radiosondes to aid the @NASA @SnowIMPACTS field campaign in gathering data about today's storm system! 📸: @_JTSmith13 #CMUwx #MIwx
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You can follow all the great data being collected for today's storm over upstate NY here:
catalog.eol.ucar.edu/impacts…
atmos.albany.edu/student/mba…
@SnowIMPACTS @UAlbanyDAES @NWSAlbany
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All 3 aircraft passes of this band of snow southeast of Lewiston #mewx is presently electrified but not producing #lightning per the Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) instrument aboard the @NASAArmstrong ER2 in @SnowIMPACTS.
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Snow joke! 🌨
The IMPACTS field campaign is flying out of Wallops to study how snowstorms form. By flying through and around storms, IMPACTS is collecting data to improve forecasts of snowstorms from space. This is the fourth year of the IMPACTS mission.
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During #IMPACTS2023 RF02 we sampled a tight cyclonic system off the coast of Virginia.
The most stunning observation was to find (chain-like) plate aggregates and capped columns throughout the system down to the lowest levels at -3°C indicating mixing of ice habits. #IceCrystals
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We're excited to partner with @SnowIMPACTS to collect data during snow storms in January & February 2023 using @GLOBEProgram protocols! If you want to learn more, watch our recorded webinars and find related resources, check out our event page at tinyurl.com/3e9cc9w3.
ALT A satellite map from 29 January 2022 showing the United States with clouds covering the northeastern states through the Gulf of Mexico.
Learn about the #MissionSnowGLOBE23 event, including the @GLOBEProgram protocols being used and what you need to do to prepare, at tinyurl.com/3e9cc9w3
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What can we learn about snowstorms by flying into them?
Learn about the IMPACTS mission at 11am ET (16:00 UTC) on Feb. 10. Experts will speak about the science & answer questions. What would you ask?
Credentialed media, please RSVP by 9am ET. Details: go.nasa.gov/3HEsjxF
ALT Plane taking off into the blue sky.
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You know it's an epic storm when legendary research meteorologist Dr. Howie Bluestein from @UofOklahoma shows up with @raxpol and weather radar expert Dr. David Schvartzman.
They were observing the #Blizzard and supporting the NASA @SnowIMPACTS campaign.
@OUARRC
@ousom – at Plymouth, MA
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The NASA @SnowIMPACTS project is collecting great data on the blizzard. The @UofOklahoma @raxpol radar and a team from @UofIllinois is in Plymouth MA. Stony Brook Univ. @SoMAS is collecting data from campus and Smith Point NY. The @millersvilleu team is in Brick NJ.
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Let’s call them “challenging” 14 and 16Z balloon launches this morning from Stony Brook… @SoMAS @SnowIMPACTS
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The RaXPol team is supporting the @SnowIMPACTS project collecting observations near Plymouth, MA. Getting some great data on this major winter storm! @OUARRC @ousom @UofOklahoma
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The latest snowfall forecast. The storm is expected to intensify rapidly over the next 24 hours. The pressure is expected to fall around 35 mb by Saturday evening. Meteorologists often refer to this as explosive intensification, which is where the term "bomb cyclone" came from.
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We're studying how snowstorms form—by flying planes through them.
Learn more about this winter's IMPACTS mission with @NASAEarth: go.nasa.gov/3g7Pt3q
ALT An image of the United States East Coast as seen from space, with a band of snow stretching from the southern New Jersey shore and Delmarva peninsula west-southwest through DC, northern Virginia and West Virginia
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It’s not just rain: @NASA’s GPM 🛰 sees snow from space! The mission collected radar imagery from a February 20th winter storm that brought rare snowfall 🌨 to North Carolina. The data will also be used by the @NASAExpeditions #IMPACTS2020 campaign.
go.nasa.gov/39215jl
ALT Radar image of a snowstorm