Meteorological conditions during the summer 1986 CITE 2 flight series

Abstract

An overview of meteorological conditions during the NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment/Chemical Instrumentation Testing and Evaluation (GTE/CITE 2) summer 1986 flight series is presented. Computer‐generated isentropic trajectories are used to trace the history of air masses encountered along each aircraft flight path. The synoptic‐scale wind fields are depicted based upon Montgomery stream function analyses. Time series of aircraft‐measured temperature, dew point, ozone, and altitude are shown to depict air mass variability. Observed differences between maritime tropical and maritime polar air masses are discussed.