GOES-16 Field Campaign
Launch Date:
March 2017
WEBSITE:
The 2017 NOAA-sponsored ER-2 aircraft mission flew the R&D-supported Cloud Radar System, ER-2 X-Band Radar, GEO-CAPE Airborne Simulator, and the Cloud Physics Lidar. The suite of instruments was validating GOES-R, the next generation of geostationary weather satellites.
Key Staff
- Principal Investigator: Matthew McGill
- Principal Investigator: Scott Janz
- Principal Investigator: Gerald Heymsfield
![Photo of NASA's ER-2 taking off from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center](/images/mission_thumbs/afrc2016-0105-15_0.jpg)