SGP Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC): Measurement Platforms

Miller, MA ; Avissar, R ; Berg, LK ; Edgerton, SA ; Fischer, ML ; Jackson, TJ ; Kustas, B. ; Lamb, PJ ; McFarquhar, G ; Min, Q ; Schmid, B ; Torn, MS ; Tuner, DD

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (U.S.)

关键词: Clouds;    Interactions;    Solar Radiation;    Radar;    Aircraft;   

DOI  :  10.2172/948002
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC-ARM-0704
RP-ID  :  DE-AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  948002

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC) will be conducted from June 8 to June 30, 2007, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (ACRF) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. Data will be collected using eight aircraft equipped with a variety of specialized sensors, four specially instrumented surface sites, and two prototype surface radar systems. The architecture of CLASIC includes a high-altitude surveillance aircraft and enhanced vertical thermodynamic and wind profile measurements that will characterize the synoptic scale structure of the clouds and the land surface within the ACRF SGP site. Mesoscale and microscale structures will be sampled with a variety of aircraft, surface, and radar observations. An overview of the measurement platforms that will be used during the CLASIC are described in this report. The coordination of measurements, especially as it relates to aircraft flight plans, will be discussed in the CLASIC Implementation Plan.