ACES ELECTRIC FIELD MILL 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 it's 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 from Electric Field Mills, which yield information about the atmospheric electrical fields above the instruments.

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Maintainer Earthdata Forum
Last Updated November 3, 2026, 00:40 (UTC)
Created April 1, 2025, 14:10 (UTC)
Identifier 10.5067/ACES/FIELDMILL/DATA101
Modified 2026-10-26T22:16:09Z
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temporal 2002-07-10/2002-08-30