STORMVEX: The Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment Science and Operations Plan

Mace, J ; Matrosov, S ; Shupe, M ; Lawson, P ; Hallar, G ; McCubbin, I ; Marchand, R ; Orr, B ; Coulter, R ; Sedlacek, A ; Avallone, L ; Long, C

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Colorado;    Clouds;    Remote Sensing;    Storms;    Steamboat Springs;   

DOI  :  10.2172/989263
RP-ID  :  DOE/SC-ARM-10-021
RP-ID  :  DE-AC05-7601830
RP-ID  :  989263

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

During the Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX), a substantial correlative data set of remote sensing observations and direct in situ measurements from fixed and airborne platforms will be created in a winter season, mountainous environment. This will be accomplished by combining mountaintop observations at Storm Peak Laboratory and the airborne National Science Foundation-supported Colorado Airborne Multi-Phase Cloud Study campaign with collocated measurements from the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2). We describe in this document the operational plans and motivating science for this experiment, which includes deployment of AMF2 to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The intensive STORMVEX field phase will begin nominally on 1 November 2010 and extend to approximately early April 2011.