CAMEX-3 Lightning Instrument Package (LIP)

The ER-2 Lightning Instrument Package measures the electric field above, below, and around the aircraft. The ER-2 LIP consists of eight electric field mills, a conductivity probe, and the associated data system. One of the field mills is installed on the upper Q-bay hatch cover and the second one is mounted on the aft section of the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) fairing. Three mills are each located on the superpods: one on the top, two on the bottom. The conductivity probe is integrated in the right hand superpod nose cone. The ER-2 LIP data system is mounted in a 19" vertical rack located in the aft section of the ER-2 Q-bay. The ER-2 electric field mills and the conductivity probe are compact sensors, each weighing less than 5 lbs.

The Third Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-3) was based at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida from 6 August - 23 September, 1998, and successfully studied Hurricanes Bonnie, Danielle, Earl and Georges. CAMEX-3 collected data for research in tropical cyclone development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts using NASA-funded aircraft and surface remote sensing instrumentation. Flights were conducted in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and in the Western Atlantic Ocean.

Browse imagery is available on the CAMEX-3 page at CAMEX-3 Data. Both browse or data are available by request via E-mail from ghrc@eos.nasa.gov.

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(START DATE: 1998-08-06 STOP DATE: 1998-09-23)

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