ACES CONTINUOUS DATA V1

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 cloudelectrification 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 seven instruments: the Slow/Fast antenna, Electric Field Mill, Dual Optical Pulse Sensor, Searchcoil Magnetometer, Accelerometers, Gerdien Conductivity Probe, and the Fluxgate Magnetometer. Data consists of sensor reads at 50HZ throughout the flight from all 64 channels.

ALTUS云电化研究（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上空雷暴进行了空中巡查。在NASA研究史上首次，一种名为ALTUS的无人驾驶飞行器（UAV）被用于收集云电化数据。ALTUS携带着场强计、光学传感器、电场传感器以及其他仪器，使得科学家们能够首次从风暴上方，从其生成至消散的整个过程中收集云电化数据。此次实验实现了收集气象数据的安全性以及测试新型飞机技术的双重目标。该数据集由七种仪器收集的数据组成，包括慢/快天线、电场计、双光学脉冲传感器、搜索线圈磁力计、加速度计、格迪恩电导率探头和霍尔效应磁力计。数据包括整个飞行过程中所有64个通道在50Hz频率下的传感器读数。