GOES-16 ABI Geocolor satellite image of the 29 January 2022 New England blizzard. Image source: NOAA/STAR.
Status
The IMPACTS campaign is a NASA-sponsored Earth Venture Suborbital-3 field campaign to study East Coast snowstorms over the course of three winters. The first deployment took place in 2020 (see http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/impacts_2020/ for the 2020 Field Catalog) and the second deployment occurred January-February 2022. A third deployment is scheduled for 2023.A total of 11 research flights were conducted during the 2022 deployment to sample winter storms spanning from the Midwest to the Northeast and Québec. Ten of those events involved successful coordination between the "satellite-simulating" ER-2, which contained radar, lidar, and microwave radiometer remote sensing instruments to sample the storm from above, and the "storm-penetrating" P-3 aircraft that housed microphysical instruments for in situ data collection and dropsondes to measure the thermodynamic profile when over the ocean. Ground assets covered an extensive area and included mobile radars, rawinsondes, and a network of meteorological and profiler stations to complement the ER-2 and P-3.
The data collection phase for the second deployment (2022) is complete and the links to the information on the operations and quick-look imagery can be found under the "Missions" and "Data" tabs above.
For a list of reports related to project operations, click on the "Reports" tab above.
For flights where IMPACTS deployed in the WINTRE-MIX project's domain, explore the http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/wintre-mix/
Datasets collected during the 2020 and 2022 field campaign can be found in the NASA GHRC DAAC
