CACTIMETSTATIONS

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Supplemental Meteorological Stations for CACTI

1 October 2018 - 30 April 2019

Lead Scientist: Adam Varble

Observatory: amf, cor

DOE ARM CACTI field campaign objectives include measuring the sensitivity of cloud properties to environmental conditions, with one focus being the initiation and organization of deep convective storms. This campaign supplements CACTI by improving characterization of environmental conditions near cloud base at higher elevations. Two solar-powered Vaisala WXT520 meteorological stations owned by ARM will be deployed for the entirety of the CACTI field campaign to measure barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. The primary goals of deploying these stations are to: - measure thermodynamic and kinematic properties of air entering the cloud bases, - estimate convective instability and convergence at or near initial cloud locations to the west of the CACTI AMF1 site, - measure the impacts of clouds and precipitation on boundary layer thermodynamic and kinematic conditions that impact subsequent cloud evolution in the area, and - detect when precipitation is occurring, a process that strongly impacts cloud evolution being measured by the scanning radars and stereo cameras deployed for CACTI.

Co-Investigators

Steve Nesbitt

Timeline

Parent Campaign
Sibling Campaign

Related Publications

2020

Goss HB, KS Dorsey, CB Ireland, MR Wasem, RA Stafford, and R Jundt. 2020. 2019 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Annual Report. Ed. by Kathryn Dorsey, ARM user facility. DOE/SC-ARM-19-032. 10.2172/1604869.

Cancelada M, P Salio, D Vila, S Nesbitt, and L Vidal. 2020. "Backward Adaptive Brightness Temperature Threshold Technique (BAB3T): A Methodology to Determine Extreme Convective Initiation Regions Using Satellite Infrared Imagery." Remote Sensing, 12(2), 10.3390/rs12020337.

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COR Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`2DS-AIR`	2 Dimensional Stereo Probe aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`AAFMERGED`	ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) Merged VAP for Historical AAF G1 Field Campaigns	Browse Data
`ACSM`	Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor	Browse Data
`ACSMCDCE`	ACSM, corrected for composition-dependent collection efficiency	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AERINF`	AERI Noise Filtered	Browse Data
`AERIOE`	AERIoe Thermodynamic Profile and Cloud Retrieval	Browse Data
`AETH`	Aethalometer	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOP`	Aerosol Optical Properties	Browse Data
`AOS`	Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`AOSMET`	Meteorological Measurements associated with the Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`APS`	Aerodynamic Particle Sizer	Browse Data
`ARMBE`	ARM Best Estimate Data Products	Browse Data
`ASDBE-AIR`	Aerosol Size Distribution Best Estimate from sensors aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CAM-AIR`	Video camera aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CAS-AIR`	Cloud and Aerosol Spectrometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CCN-AIR`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter aboard Aircraft	Browse Data
`CCNKAPPA`	CCN Counter derived hygroscopicity parameter kappa	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CEILPBLHT`	Boundary-layer height data with CEIL	Browse Data
`CIP-AIR`	Cloud Imaging Probe aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CLDTYPE`	Cloud Type Classification	Browse Data
`CMAC2`	Corrected Moments in Antenna Coordinates, Version 2	Browse Data
`CMH-AIR`	Chilled Mirror Hygrometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CO-AIR`	Carbon Monoxide- Airborne	Browse Data
`CO-ANALYZER`	Carbon Monoxide Analyzer	Browse Data
`CPC`	Condensation Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CPC-AIR`	Condensation particle counter aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`CSAPR`	C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`DL`	Doppler Lidar	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WIND`	Doppler Lidar Horizontal Wind Profiles	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WSTATS`	Doppler Lidar Wind Statistics Profiles	Browse Data
`ECOR`	Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System	Browse Data
`FCDP-AIR`	Fast Cloud Droplet Probe aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`GOES`	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites	Browse Data
`GUSTPROBE-AIR`	Gust Probe aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`HK-AIR`	House Keeping Instruments aboard Aircraft	Browse Data
`HVPS-AIR`	High Volume Precipitation Spectrometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`INLETCVI-AIR`	Inlet for Counterflow Virtual Impactor aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`INLETISOK-AIR`	Isokinetic Inlet aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`INTERPSONDE`	Interpolated Sonde	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`KASACR`	Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`KASACRGRIDRHI`	Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar RHI scan, Cartesian Cloud Cover Grid VAP	Browse Data
`KAZR`	Ka ARM Zenith Radar	Browse Data
`KAZRARSCL`	Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) product using Ka-band ARM Zenith Radars	Browse Data
`KAZRCFRCOR`	Ka-Band ARM Zenith RADAR (KAZR) CF-Radial, Corrected VAP	Browse Data
`LDIS`	Laser Disdrometer	Browse Data
`LDQUANTS`	Laser Disdrometer Quantities	Browse Data
`MAWS`	Automatic Weather Station	Browse Data
`MERGED-COMMON`	Merged data- common timestamp	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`MET-AIR`	Meteorological Instrumentation aboard Aircraft	Browse Data
`METWXT`	WXT520/530 Meteorological Instrument System	Browse Data
`MFR`	Multifilter Radiometer	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MFRSRCLDOD`	Cloud Optical Properties from MFRSR Using Min Algorithm	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASKML`	Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning VAP	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWRHF`	Microwave Radiometer - High Frequency	Browse Data
`MWRP`	Microwave Radiometer Profiler	Browse Data
`MWRRET`	MWR Retrievals	Browse Data
`NAV-AIR`	Navigational Location, Motion, and Attitude for Airborne Platforms	Browse Data
`NAVMET-AIR`	Navigation and Met Data from multiple sensors on airborne platform	Browse Data
`NEPHELOMETER`	Nephelometer	Browse Data
`NEPHELOMETER-AIR`	3-Wavelength integrating nephelometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`NFOV`	Narrow Field of View Zenith Radiometer	Browse Data
`OZONE`	Ozone Monitor	Browse Data
`OZONE-AIR`	Ozone Monitor aboard Aircraft	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`PCASP-AIR`	Passive cavity aerosol spectrometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`PSAP`	Particle Soot Absorption Photometer	Browse Data
`PSAP-AIR`	Particle soot absorption photometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`QCECOR`	Quality Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement	Browse Data
`QCRAD`	Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data	Browse Data
`RADFLUXANAL`	Radiative Flux Analysis	Browse Data
`RAIN`	Rain Gauge	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SASHE`	Shortwave Array Spectroradiometer-Hemispheric	Browse Data
`SASZE`	Shortwave Array Spectroradiometer-Zenith	Browse Data
`SEBS`	Surface Energy Balance System	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SMPS`	Scanning mobility particle sizer	Browse Data
`SMPS-AIR`	Scanning mobility particle sizer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`SO2-AIR`	Sulfur Dioxide Monitor aboard Aircraft	Browse Data
`SODAR`	Mini Sound Detection and Ranging	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEGRID`	Gridded Sonde VAP Product	Browse Data
`SP2-AIR`	Single Particle Soot Photometer aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`STEREOCAM`	Stereo Cameras for Clouds	Browse Data
`THERMOCLOUDPHASE`	Thermodynamic cloud phase	Browse Data
`TSI`	Total Sky Imager	Browse Data
`UHSAS`	Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer	Browse Data
`VARANAL`	Constrained Variational Analysis	Browse Data
`VDIS`	Video Disdrometer	Browse Data
`VDISQUANTS`	Video Disdrometer VAP	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WB`	Weighing Bucket Precipitation Gauge	Browse Data
`WCM-AIR`	Water content meter aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`XSACR`	X-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`XSACRGRIDRHI`	X-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar RHI scan, Cartesian Cloud Cover VAP	Browse Data