ACES TRIGGERED 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 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研究人员在佛罗里达州西南角上空进行了雷暴的飞行观测。在NASA研究史上，首次使用名为ALTUS的无人空中飞行器（UAV）收集云电气化数据。ALTUS携带着场强计、光学传感器、电场传感器及其他仪器，使得科学家们能够首次从风暴之上，从其生成到消散的过程中收集云电气化数据。该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。此数据集包含了以下仪器收集的数据：慢/快天线、电场计、光脉冲传感器、搜索线圈磁力计、加速度计以及格迪恩电导率探头。这些数据在200kHz的频率下从飞机上收集的前16个遥测项目中获得，由操作员选定的触发器（例如DOPS）启动，并在触发器持续的时间内持续收集。