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and your title is uh NASA research pilot

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East Coast snowstorms as they progress

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over the land masses they form

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differently than say a Pacific snowstorm

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and so the impacts campaign is looking

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to see what differences there are with

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the formation as well as the dissipation

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of these these types of storms so from

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the pilot perspective usually about

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three to four hours before we're going

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to be climbing into the spacesuit we're

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looking at all the weather Airfield

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conditions talking to the science teams

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and deciding okay is everything going to

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go as expected in the atmosphere in the

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meantime the instrument teams are what

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we call in a Hands-On time where they're

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allowed to go to their instrument on the

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aircraft and do any pre-flight

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activities that they need to do in

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preparation all right so this is the

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lightning instrument package the lip

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instrument

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out of the Marshall space flight center

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and we're flying it here with the

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impacts campaign to measure the

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electrification of these winter

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thunderstorms that don't typically

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produce a lot of lightning you're trying

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to understand how storms that are

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completely Frozen can produce electric

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fields and become charged uh so here we

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have uh kazir compact scanning

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submillimeter Imaging radiometer and

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we're collecting was it data for ice

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clouds and getting a profile data so

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this is Amper ampr it stands for the

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advanced microwave precipitation

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radiometer and what Amper is looking for

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is the really deep down tiny scale like

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on the individual scale of snow crystals

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and Rain droplets and Cloud droplets

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because what happens at the finest scale

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like whether or not an Ice Crystal is

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forming or melting can have broader

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thank you

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the mobile pilot who's going to be

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driving the Chase car and be your extra

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set of eyes ears and everything outside

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the airplane is out pre-flighting the

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cockpit we call it a pilot integration

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because the pilot is very little

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involvement in it it's a really short

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takeoff roll between 400 and about 1200

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feet typically depending on the weight

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and as soon as we take off we point the

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nose straight up we climb up real

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rapidly and once we get way up into the

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high thin air things start to slow down

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so the data we're collecting here with

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the impacts campaign is going to

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directly feed into newer and updated

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models so that we have better storm

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predictions in the future

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after the flight and the aircraft is

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back in the hangar the ground crew

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assists the science team to download

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their data from their instruments so

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that they can take it back and process

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from a project management perspective

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the impacts campaign has allowed us to

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continue to demonstrate that we can

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deploy the er2 to any location to