The Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds (MC3E) Experiment Final Campaign Report

Jensen, Michael¹  Kollias, Pavlos²  Giangrande, Scott¹ 

[1] Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States);McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)

关键词: ARM;    Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility;    MC3E;    Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment;    Final Campaign Summary;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1192141
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC-ARM--14-012
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1192141

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place from April 22 through June 6, 2011, centered at the ARM Southern Great Plains site (http://www.arm.gov/sites/sgp) in northcentral Oklahoma. MC3E was a collaborative effort between the ARM Climate Research Facility and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration???s (NASA???s) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation (GV) program. The campaign leveraged the largest ground-based observing infrastructure available in the central United States, including recent upgrades through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, combined with an extensive sounding array, remote sensing and in situ aircraft observations, and additional radar and in situ precipitation instrumentation. The overarching goal of the campaign was to provide a three-dimensional characterization of convective clouds and precipitation for the purpose of improving the representation of convective lifecycle in atmospheric models and the reliability of satellite-based retrievals of precipitation.