ACES TRIGGERED DATA

The ALTUS Cloud Electrification Study (ACES) was based at the Naval Air Facility Key West in Florida. During August 2002, ACES researchers conducted overflights of thunderstorms over the southwestern corner of Florida. For the first time in NASA research, an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) named ALTUS was used to collect cloud electrification data. Carrying field mills, optical sensors, electric field sensors and other instruments, ALTUS allowed scientists to collect cloud electrification data for the first time from above the storm, from its birth through dissipation. This experiment allowed scientists to achieve the dual goals of gathering weather data safely and testing new aircraft technology. This dataset consists of data collected from the following instruments: Slow/Fast antenna, Electric Field Mill, Optical Pulse Sensors, Searchcoil Magnetometer, Accelerometer, and Gerdien Conductivity Probe. These data were collected at 200KHz from the first 16 telemetry items collected on the aircraft, were initiated by an operator selected trigger (e.g. DOPS), and continued collecting for as long as the trigger continued.

ALTUS云电气化研究（ACES）以佛罗里达州基韦斯特海军航空站为基地。在2002年8月，ACES研究团队对佛罗里达州西南角的雷暴进行了空中巡视。在NASA研究史上首次，一款名为ALTUS的无人飞行器被用于收集云电气化数据。ALTUS携带着场强计、光学传感器、电场传感器以及其他仪器，使得科学家能够首次从风暴上方，从其生成到消散的过程中收集云电气化数据。此次实验实现了收集气象数据的安全性与测试新型飞机技术的双重目标。本数据集包含从以下仪器收集的数据：慢/快天线、电场仪、光学脉冲传感器、搜索线圈磁力计、加速度计和格迪恩电导率探头。这些数据在200KHz的频率下收集，源自飞机上首次采集的前16项遥测数据，由操作员选择的触发器（例如DOPS）启动，并在触发器持续期间持续收集。