D - F
type: Concept

EPOCH
type: Concept
change note: 2022-06-06 08:39:45.0 [tstevens] update Definition (https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/epoch);
change note: 2022-06-06 08:38:37.0 [tstevens] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH) project was a NASA program manager training opportunity directed at training NASA young scientists in conceiving, planning, and executing a major airborne science field program. Combined with this goal the EPOCH project was to sample tropical cyclogenesis or intensification of an Eastern Pacific hurricane. The EPOCH project consists of three payload instruments, ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD), High Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR), and Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), onboard the AV-6 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle research aircraft. The launch site was at the Armstrong Flight Research Center located on Edwards Air Force Base in California. The launch/flight window consisted of up to six 24-hour science flights from August 1, 2017 through August 30, 2017 over the Pacific Ocean. language code: en);
change note: 2022-06-06 08:36:18.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add broader relation (EPOCH [1bb284ac-a2e1-4b40-aac2-1f948af38715,952819] - D - F [24cf4b0e-4464-4edb-8f0c-415e851a6d79,945946]);
in scheme: projects
definition: The East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes (EPOCH) project was a NASA program manager training opportunity directed at training NASA young scientists in conceiving, planning, and executing a major airborne science field program. Combined with this goal the EPOCH project was to sample tropical cyclogenesis or intensification of an Eastern Pacific hurricane. The EPOCH project consists of three payload instruments, ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD), High Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR), and Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), onboard the AV-6 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle research aircraft. The launch site was at the Armstrong Flight Research Center located on Edwards Air Force Base in California. The launch/flight window consisted of up to six 24-hour science flights from August 1, 2017 through August 30, 2017 over the Pacific Ocean.