OLYMPEX Counterflow Spectrometer and Impactor Field Campaign Report

Poellot, Michael² 

[1] Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States)

关键词: ARM Aerial Facility;    Counterflow Spectrometer and Impactor;    NASA;    total water content;    cloud microphysics;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1302196
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC--ARM-16-040
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1302196

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility???s ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) Counterflow Spectrometer and Impactor (CSI) probe was flown on the University of North Dakota Cessna Citation research aircraft during the Olympic Mountain Experiment (OLYMPEX). The field campaign took place from November 12 through December 19, 2015, over the Olympic Mountains and coastal waters of Washington State as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) validation campaign. The CSI was added to the Citation instrument suite to support the NASA Aerosol-Cloud Ecosystem (ACE) satellite program and flights of the NASA Lockheed Earth Resources (ER-2) aircraft. ACE funded extra ER-2 flights to focus on clouds that are weakly precipitating, which are also of interest to the DOE Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program.