DYCOMS-II project description

Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II

Summary

DYCOMS-II is the name given to a field campaign which collected data for the purposes of testing large-eddy simulations of nocturnal stratocumulus.

The experiment consisted of nine flights out of North Island Naval Air Station (just west of San Diego) between July 7 and July 28, 2001.

Objectives:

The DYCOMS-II field program is designed to collect data to test large-eddy simulations of stratocumulus. The flight strategy has been optimized to provide:

a suite of test cases for subsequent observations;
tests of LES derived entrainment parameterizations.

Secondary objectives of the program include:

to test a recently proposed technique to measure large-scale divergence;
to test our ability to close scalar budgets under ideal situations;
to increase our understanding and of the statistical signature of the diurnal cycle in marine stratocumulus.

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Additional Information

Related links:

info: EOL Project Page
info: C130-Q
homepage: dycoms.html
catalog: dycoms

Temporal coverage

Begin date: 2001-07-07 00:00:00, End date: 2001-07-28 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Minimum latitude: 26.000000, Minimum longitude: -127.000000
Maximum latitude: 37.000000, Maximum longitude: -115.000000