STEPS (Severe Thunderstorm Electrification  and Precipitation Study)

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology T-28 armored research airplane and its crew of pilots and scientists participated in the STEPS field program from May through July, 2000.  We were based at the Goodland, Kansas, airport, and coordinated our flight activities with the many other observing facilities involved in STEPS, including radars, sounding systems, a lightning mapping array, mobile surface observing systems, and volunteer networks of observers. 

T-28 Research Flights during STEPS 

• Introduction

• Preliminary Survey of Observations

Air temperature
Vertical winds
Turbulence
Cloud Water
Precipitation
Particle charge
Electric field
Aircraft motion

• T-28 Instrument Table

• T-28 Recorded and Derived Parameter List

• T-28 Formula Table

• Data Organization and Software Availability

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