NCAR/EOL Research Aviation Facility

Earth Observing Laboratory
	Research Aviation Facility

Welcome to the Research Aviation Facility's Home Page.
RAF is in the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL)
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

About Us

We are located at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport ™ (formerly Jeffco Airport). 10802 Airport Court Broomfield, CO 80021-2561 Phone: (303) 497-1030
Travel Directions	Mission and Goals
How to Contact Us	EOL Staff
Aircraft Fleet	RAF's Instrumentation and Measurements
Requesting Use of Our Aircraft	Technical Bulletins and Tech Notes
NCAR/RAF Flight Crew Limitations
RAF Planning Calendars: (updated 09 June 2008)
	2008 (pdf, 13 kB)
	2009 (pdf, 13 kB)
	2010 (pdf, 14 kB)
	2011 (pdf, 13 kB)

What's New

PASE (Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment)

PACDEX (PACific Dust EXperiment)

NSF/NCAR G-V (HIAPER)
Projected Development & Upgrade Schedule Ongoing schedule adjustments are expected to accomodate future field deployments and potential funding limitations.	Investigator's Handbook
G-V Modular Inlet A web page presenting the design for a general-purpose air-sample-inlet system. We are soliciting comments from the scientific community.	Projected HAIS Instrumentation Availability
Approved and Tested RAF Wire and Tubing (updated: 6 May 2008) G-V New-Instrument Certification Sample Data Package, Electrical (997KB pdf) Sample Data Package, Mechanical (2.614MB pdf)
RAF's G-V Safety Briefing download PowerPoint file (99.3MB)
HIAPER Project Office web site (historical information only)	RAF's New Hangar photo gallery

Field Projects

RAF Project Documentation Summaries (since 1996)

ProgSci Project Home Page
(Progressive Science on the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V)

RAF Field Project Computing Handbook
for users who want to:

integrate their computers and equipment to the RAF aircraft computing infrastructure
work with ground-based, real-time data products and RAF post-flight data

RAF Small Project Support

Non-UCAR Activity Release (Notice and Form)

Data and Software

RAF Archived-Data Catalog
Find projects by year, project number and/or name with ability to download data files

EOL's Mass-Store Data-Retrieval Web Page
A web page for selecting and downloading recent EOL project archived data from the CISL Mass Store System

RAF Software Product Guide

CPI Data and Software

EOL Data Policy

Interesting Stuff

Approved and Tested RAF Wire and Tubing
(updated: 6 May 2008)

A Review of High-rate Wind Gust Measurements from the NCAR C-130 Aircraft, by Don Lenschow, June 23, 2005
(Acrobat pdf file, 46KB)

RAF's G-V Safety Briefing
download PowerPoint file (99.3MB)

RAF's C-130Q Safety Briefing
download PowerPoint file (29.3MB)
Browser Version (MS Internet Explorer recommended)

Counterflow Virtual Impactor -- General Information

EOL/RAF Airflow Analysis Home Page

NCAR's Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR)
Summary of the current specifications and research applications of the MCR

Synthetic Data Injector User's Guide

Development of New Capabilities for the C-130Q

Internal (Limited Access)

EOL Wiki Server	RAF Science Wiki
RAF File System Information Shows what file systems are available at Jeffco (also maps Windows folders and Linux file path names which are common to both)
Secure WebMail (EOL)	(EOL WebMail Help)
Secure WebMail (UCAR)
EOL On-Line Computer Systems Help Use this link to submit a help request.
EOL Systems Group Help Page Lots of information about EOL's computers and network
RAF Assigned Project Numbers
Antarctica photos from NRL

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