Measurement and Improved Understanding of Vertical Transport and the Evaluation of these Processes in Mesoscale Models

Parsons, David ; Pinto, James ; Brown, William ; Cohn, Stephen ; Morley, Bruce

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

关键词: Data Analysis;    Atmospheric Circulation;    Atmospheric Chemistry;    54 Environmental Sciences;    Mixing;   

RP-ID  :  1999-113
RP-ID  :  FG02-04ER63717
RP-ID  :  900667

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The NCAR effort is primarily focused on the analysis of a diverse suite of measurements taken at the southern end of the Salt Lake City Valley within the Jordan Narrows. These measurements include wind profiler, surface, lidar, radiosonde, multi-layered tether-sonde and sodar measurements. We are also collaborating with other VTMX investigators through linking our measurements within the Jordan Narrows with their investigations. The instrumentation was provided to interested VTMX investigators and was used extensively. Thus the NCAR data set played a large role in the results of the overall experiment. Our work under this proposal includes analysis of the observations, mesoscale modeling efforts in support of our VTMX analysis and general instrumentation development aimed at improving the measurement of vertical transport and mixing under stable conditions. This report is subdivided by research objectives.