S2noCliME:
Snow Sensitivity to Clouds in a Mountain Environment
The S2noCliME Field Campaign made use of a ground-based, remote sensing and in situ multi-instrument deployment for the 2024 – 2025 winter season to better understand cold season cloud and precipitation processes in a mountainous environment. The...
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2024-10-01 00:00:00 |
2025-04-01 23:59:59 |
SLC-SOS_Mobile:
Salt Lake City - Summer Ozone Study - Mobile
The project will conduct research flights with the University of Wyoming King-Air along the Wasatch Front between 1 July and 31 August 2025 to 1) investigate ozone production and pollutant evolution in thermally driven lake breeze flows over and...
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2024-07-08 00:00:00 |
2024-09-20 23:59:59 |
MITTEN-CI:
Maritime to Inland Transitions Towards ENvironments for Convection Initiation
The goal of the MITTEN-CI campaign is to develop the most thorough understanding to date of transitions in warm season boundary layer thermodynamic and kinematic structure due to inland advection of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MBL) in the...
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2024-06-28 00:00:00 |
2024-07-31 23:59:59 |
MAIRE24:
Methane Emissions Quantification at scale using the MethaneAIR Imaging Spectrometer on the NSF Gulfstream-V 2024
MethaneAIR is a novel airborne imaging spectrometer with the unique capability of efficiently imaging large regions with high precision and granularity. It has been demonstrated to provide images of methane total column concentrations with...
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2024-06-17 00:00:00 |
2024-08-16 23:59:59 |
NY-ECLIPSE-2024:
MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars (MPD) for studying the atmospheric impacts of the total solar eclipse in 2024
Three NCAR/EOL temperature and water vapor MPDs were deployed during the 2024 North American total solar eclipse (TSE) in New York State (NYS) collocated with three NYS Mesonet (NYSM) super-sites. Coincident surface, profiling and flux measurements...
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2024-04-01 00:00:00 |
2024-04-30 23:59:59 |
ACES:
Eclipse Observations with the Airborne Coronal Emission Surveyor
The Airborne Coronal Emission Surveyor (ACES) is a new instrument using the Airborne Stabilized Platform for Infrared Experiments (ASPIRE) to explore the large-scale coronal IR emission spectrum during the 2024 total solar eclipse. ACES and ASPIRE will...
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2024-03-22 14:06:01 |
2024-04-09 17:25:59 |
CAESAR:
Cold Air Outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region
The PI team proposes a dedicated field campaign, Cold Air Outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR), to examine the structure of marine boundary layer clouds during CAOs. CAESAR will deploy the NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft, with in situ and...
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2024-02-05 17:06:56 |
2024-04-07 23:59:59 |
DELTA:
Detecting and Evaluating Low-level Tornado Attributes
DELTA (Detecting and Evaluating Low-level Tornado Attributes) is a NOAA campaign that takes many of the assets from the PERiLS campaigns to examine three overarching storm modes QLCSs (Quasi-Linear Convective Systems), supercells, and supercell/QLCS...
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2023-12-12 00:00:00 |
2024-04-15 23:59:59 |
M2HATS:
Multi-point Monin-Obukhov Similarity Horizontal Array Turbulence Study
The Multi-point Monin-Obukhov similarity horizontal array turbulence study (M2HATS) will investigate the recently developed multi-point Monin-Obukhov similarity (MMO) in the convective atmospheric surface layer (CBL). The original Monin-Obukhov...
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2023-07-23 00:00:00 |
2023-09-16 23:59:59 |
GOTHAAM:
Greater New York Oxidant Trace gas Halogen and Aerosol Airborne Mission
GOTHAAM is a collaborative field study to study the atmospheric chemistry of the New York City air plume, to understand the sources and sinks of air pollution in the region, and to think about how the plume impacts air quality and climate for the...
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2023-07-01 00:00:00 |
2023-08-12 23:59:59 |
CG_WaveS:
Convective Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere
CG WaveS will seek to measure and quantify gravity waves excited by deep convection ranging from single cells to frontal systems and squall lines and their propagation and dissipation throughout the stratosphere. This will be accomplished by HIAPER...
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2023-04-25 00:00:00 |
2023-07-02 23:59:59 |
CAESAR_2023:
CAESAR Dry Run
One of the most intense air mass transformations on Earth happens when cold Arctic air flows out over the much warmer open oceans in so-called Cold-Air Outbreaks (CAOs). The surface heat fluxes are amongst the highest observed on Earth, supporting...
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2023-02-13 00:00:00 |
2023-03-31 23:59:59 |
PERiLS_2023:
Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms 2023
PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms) builds upon the results of the VORTEX-SE campaigns adding critical instruments to provide the sampling necessary to address environmental factors and storm processes that lead to quasi...
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2022-12-15 00:00:00 |
2023-05-15 23:59:59 |
SOS:
Sublimation of Snow
Snow is vital to water resources, but sublimation may remove 10% to 90% of snowfall from the system. Due to a critical lack of reliable direct measurements of snow sublimation, the physics that governs current rates of sublimation, let alone how those...
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2022-11-01 00:00:00 |
2023-06-20 23:59:59 |
MAIR-E:
Methane Emissions Quantification at scales from 20 m to 200 km using the MethaneAIR Imaging Spectrometer on the NSF Gulfstream-V (MAIR-E)
MethaneAIR is a novel airborne imaging spectrometer with the unique capability of efficiently imaging large regions with high precision and granularity. It has been demonstrated to provide images of methane total column concentrations with...
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2022-10-03 00:00:00 |
2022-11-18 23:59:59 |
LEE:
Lake Effect Electrification
The Lake-Effect Electrification (LEE) Project is focused over and east (the typical downwind/leeside) of Lake Ontario during the cool season. Project LEE aims to document, for the first time, the total lightning and electrical charge structures of lake...
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2022-09-01 00:00:00 |
2023-03-01 23:59:59 |
CPEX-CV:
Convective Processes Experiment - Cabo Verde
The NASA CPEX-CV field campaign based out of Cabo Verde during August-September 2022 was conducted aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft equipped with remote sensors and dropsonde-launch capability measuring of tropospheric aerosols, winds, temperature, water...
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2022-09-01 00:00:00 |
2022-10-02 23:59:59 |
HIWC_2022:
High Ice Water Content 2022
Since the 1990’s, a significant number of engine power loss/damage events (>174) and air data probe anomalies occurred on transport airplanes while flying in or near deep convective clouds where high concentrations of ice crystals may have been...
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2022-07-05 00:00:00 |
2022-08-01 23:59:59 |
ACCLIP:
Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and CLimate Impact Project
The Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) is the largest meteorological pattern in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer season. Persistent convection and the large anticyclonic flow pattern in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) associated with ASM...
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2022-06-14 00:00:00 |
2022-09-15 23:59:59 |
PRECIP:
Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign In the Pacific
PRECIP was developed to increase our understanding of the causes and increase our prediction capability of extreme rainfall events. PRECIP addressed this need through an in-depth and comprehensive study of the fundamental causes of extreme rainfall...
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2022-05-22 00:00:00 |
2022-08-10 23:59:59 |
ESCAPE:
Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Environment
Convective clouds play an important role in the Earth’s climate system as a driver of large-scale circulations and a primary mechanism for the transport of heat, moisture, aerosols, and momentum throughout the troposphere. Despite their climatic...
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2022-05-10 00:00:00 |
2022-07-10 23:59:59 |
TI3GER:
Technological Innovation Into Iodine and GV Environmental Research
Anthropogenic (pollution) ozone has increased oceanic emissions of iodine since pre industrial times, but the implications for ozone radiative forcing and new particle formation remain poorly understood. The 2018 WMO Ozone Assessment report recently...
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2022-04-01 00:00:00 |
2022-04-30 23:59:59 |
PERiLS_2022:
Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms 2022
PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms) builds upon the results of the VORTEX-SE campaigns adding critical instruments to provide the sampling necessary to address environmental factors and storm processes that lead to quasi...
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2022-03-01 00:00:00 |
2022-04-30 23:59:59 |
CFACT:
Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain
CFACT is a field campaign that investigates cold fog formation in mountain valleys. The overarching goals of the CFACT project are to 1) investigate cold fog development and environment conditions in complex terrain with the latest observation...
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2022-01-06 00:00:00 |
2022-02-23 23:59:59 |
CHACHA:
CHemistry in the Arctic: Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols
CHACHA aims to assess the extent to which Arctic change, particularly sea ice loss and increased fossil fuel extraction in the New Arctic, modifies multiphase halogen, nitrogen, and sulfur chemistry, in turn affecting aerosols, clouds, and the fate of...
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2022-01-01 00:00:00 |
2022-05-01 23:59:59 |
WINTRE-MIX:
Winter Precipitation Type Research Multi-scale Experiment
During near-freezing surface conditions, a diversity of surface precipitation types (p-types) are possible, including: rain, drizzle, freezing rain, freezing drizzle, wet snow, ice pellets, and snow. Such near-freezing precipitation affects wide swaths...
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2021-12-01 00:00:00 |
2022-03-15 23:59:59 |
ASPIRE:
Airborne Stabilized Platform for Infrared Experiments
The Airborne Stabilized Platform for Infrared Experiments (ASPIRE) will deploy the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV to observe the eclipse from 15 November - 7 December 2021. The ASPIRE program designed and built a solar-tracking platform for the GV aircraft and...
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2021-11-15 00:00:00 |
2021-12-08 23:59:59 |
TRANS2AM:
Transport and Transformation of Ammonia
Ammonia (NH3) contributes to fine particle formation and nitrogen deposition; however, less is known about the atmospheric emissions, abundances, and loss processes for this species than many other anthropogenic pollutants. Toward this goal, we propose...
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2021-06-14 00:00:00 |
2022-09-16 23:59:59 |
SPICULE:
Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment
The project will focus on airborne in situ and remote observations that provide intensive measurements of microphysical and dynamic parameters that may, or may not, support suspected Hallett-Mossop (HM) secondary ice process (SIP) in cumulus clouds....
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2021-04-26 00:00:00 |
2021-06-30 23:59:59 |
ARM_TRACER:
Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment
During the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER), scientists will use the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1), the second generation C-band ARM Scanning Precipitation Radar (CSAPR2), and a small satellite site with radiosonde and...
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2021-01-20 00:00:00 |
2022-10-01 23:59:59 |
WCR-TEST:
Wyoming Cloud Radar Test
As part of the preparations for the SPICULE project eight flight hours were approved to test the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) ahead of the deployment. These flights, hereinafter referred to as WCR-Test, were conducted from the RAF home base in Broomfield...
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2020-11-02 00:00:00 |
2020-11-20 23:59:59 |
SWEX:
Sundowner Winds Experiment
Downslope windstorms at the lee of the Santa Ynez Mountains (SYM) in Santa Barbara County are one of the most significant fire weather hazards affecting populated areas. These gusty winds known as Sundowner winds, peak from early evening to mid-morning...
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2020-02-19 00:00:00 |
2022-06-01 23:59:59 |
IMPACTS:
Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms
IMPACTS aimed to determine how multi-scale dynamical and microphysical processes in winter storms interact to produce banded regions of snowfall, and provide knowledge that informs remote sensing of snow from space and improves US storm prediction...
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2020-01-01 00:00:00 |
2023-02-08 23:59:59 |
ACTIVATE:
Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment
ACTIVATE is a NASA campaign spanning multiple years to characterize aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions using in situ and remote sensing airborne measurements with from aircraft and a hierarchy of models. ACTIVATE focuses on marine boundary layer ...
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2019-12-16 00:00:00 |
2022-06-18 23:59:59 |
MethaneAIR:
MethaneAIR
MethaneAIR is an airborne imaging spectrometer funded by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and private philanthropy as part of the EDF International Methane project. The first scientific goal of the EDF program is to accurately measure emissions of...
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2019-10-28 00:00:00 |
2021-08-16 23:59:59 |
CAMP2Ex:
Clouds, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment
The Clouds, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment (CAMP²Ex) is a NASA airborne mission with the goal to characterize the role of anthropogenic and natural aerosol particles in modulating the frequency and amount of warm and mixed phase...
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2019-08-20 00:00:00 |
2019-10-10 23:59:59 |
OTREC:
Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection
OTREC (Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection) is a field campaign during the latter part of summer (August through September 2019) over a domain covering the eastern Pacific ocean and the southwest Caribbean. This is an area which exhibits a...
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2019-07-01 00:00:00 |
2019-10-07 23:59:59 |
CHEESEHEAD:
Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors
The Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors (CHEESEHEAD) is an intensive field campaign designed specifically to address long-standing puzzles regarding the role of atmospheric...
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2019-06-24 00:00:00 |
2019-10-11 23:59:59 |
ECLIPSE2019:
Direct measurement of the coronal magnetic field
Direct measurement of the coronal magnetic field remains a top priority for solar physics. The coronal magnetic field controls the structure, plasma dynamics, and stability of the solar atmosphere. Current efforts at detailed physics-based coronal...
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2019-05-17 00:00:00 |
2019-07-05 23:59:59 |
TORUS:
Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells
TORUS (Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells) was a nomadic field campaign during the spring storm seasons (May and June) over a domain covering much of the central United States where there exists significant point probabilities of...
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2019-05-13 00:00:00 |
2023-06-16 23:59:59 |
MPD-NetDemo:
Micro-Pulse DIAL (MPD) Network Demonstration
This project is the first deployment of the network of five NCAR Micro-Pulse DIALs (MPDs). We test the network capability of these systems toward providing continuous water vapor profiles. EOL also fields two GPS receivers to provide precipitable water...
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2019-04-16 00:00:00 |
2019-07-22 23:59:59 |
ICICLE:
In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment
In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment (ICICLE) is planning to study microphysical cloud properties in order to better understand how icing conditions (particulary freezing rain, freezing drizzle and ice pellets) form and evolve over time. Aircraft...
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2019-01-28 00:00:00 |
2019-03-20 23:59:59 |
HIGHWAY:
High Impact Weather Lake System
This project will address the lack of much needed in-situ observations and data availability both for research and meteorological operational purposes. Enhanced observations will be used to increase the scientific knowledge of storm initiation,...
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2018-12-20 00:00:00 |
2020-05-01 23:59:59 |
MPI2019:
Mixed Phase Isotopes 2019
Scientific relevance Ice crystals and supercooled liquid droplets exist simultaneously in mixed-phase clouds. As a result, precipitation may form by distinct pathways. Water vapor in the atmosphere can deposit directly onto tiny particulates called ice...
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2018-12-20 00:00:00 |
2019-01-07 23:59:59 |
Meso18-19:
Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Meso18-19
The VORTEX-SE Scientific Steering Committe determined that it is highly desirable to conduct observations across the Southeast cool season. The period of slightly enhanced tornado potential extends from October through early May, and the forecasting...
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2018-10-22 00:00:00 |
2019-04-30 23:59:59 |
ICICLE_2018:
ICICLE Dry Run
In-Cloud ICing and Large-drop Experiment (ICICLE) is planning to study microphysical cloud properties in order to better understand how icing conditions (particulary freezing rain, freezing drizzle and ice pellets) form and evolve over time.
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2018-10-03 00:00:00 |
2018-12-01 23:59:59 |
PISTON:
Propagation of Intra-Seasonal Tropical OscillatioN
The Propagation of Intra-Seasonal Tropical OscillatioN (PISTON) was conducted in the August-October 2018 period over the northern Western Pacific tropical region. While numerous tropical intra-seasonal oscillations exist, PISTON primarily targeted the...
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2018-08-21 00:00:00 |
2018-10-12 23:59:59 |
SAVANT:
Stable Air Variability and Transport
Stable surface boundary layers (SBL) occur more than one-half the total time in mid-latitudes, yet our knowledge of the complexity of the near surface drainage and converging flows associated with stable conditions is very limited. Surface emissions...
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2018-08-08 00:00:00 |
2018-11-15 23:59:59 |
HIWC-RADAR-2018:
High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2018
The goal of the High Ice Water Content (HIWC) RADAR Flight Campaign is to develop a means to remotely identify regions of HIWC ahead of an aircraft to enable tactical detect and avoidance decision making by a flight crew. HIWC conditions occur in deep...
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2018-07-30 00:00:00 |
2018-08-21 23:59:59 |
BB-FLUX:
Biomass Burning Fluxes of Trace Gases and Aerosols
The 2018 Biomass Burning Fluxes of Trace Gases and Aerosols campaign deployed the CU solar tracker and the CU SOF on the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft, building on the experience from Pre-BB-FLUX. The campaign was based in the...
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2018-07-18 00:00:00 |
2018-09-23 23:59:59 |
WE-CAN:
Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol, Absorption and Nitrogen
WE-CAN (Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol, Absorption and Nitrogen) seeks to understand the chemistry in western wildfire smoke has major ramifications for air quality, nutrient cycles, weather and climate. This project will...
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2018-06-15 00:00:00 |
2018-09-25 23:59:59 |
RELAMPAGO:
Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations
The RELAMPAGO field program will be conducted in west central Argentina in the general vicinity of the Sierras de Cordoba (SDC) and the Andes foothills near Mendoza. This region arguably has among the most intense convective systems in the world ...
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2018-06-01 00:00:00 |
2019-05-01 23:59:59 |
GRAINEX:
The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment
Land use land cover and subsequent changes (LULCC) play an important role in weather and climate systems. Observations and modeling studies suggest that LULCC impacts meso- regional, and potentially global-scale atmospheric circulations, temperature,...
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2018-05-25 00:00:00 |
2018-06-30 23:59:59 |
VORTEX-SE_2018:
The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2018 Field campaign
The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Is a research program designed to understand how environmental factors characteristic of the southeastern United States affect the formation, intensity, structure...
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2018-03-01 00:00:00 |
2018-04-15 23:59:59 |
SOCRATES:
Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study
The Southern Ocean (SO) is the stormiest place on Earth, buffeted by winds and waves that circle the ice of Antarctica, sheathed in clouds that mantle a dynamic ocean with rich ecosystems. The remote and usually pristine environment, typically removed...
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2018-01-01 00:00:00 |
2018-02-28 23:59:59 |
IDEAL:
Instabilities, Dynamics and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering
The IDEAL (Instabilities, Dynamics and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering) field project combines ground-based in-situ observations with modeling efforts and will quantify the understanding of “sheet-and-layer” (S&L) structures, morphologies,...
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2017-10-23 00:00:00 |
2017-11-15 23:59:59 |
EPOCH:
East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes Dropsondes
This is the data archive site for the EPOCH-2017 Dropsondes. This NASA led project which planned six 24-hour science flights using the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. Only three of the flights were conducted and those were supported through a...
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2017-08-01 00:00:00 |
2017-08-30 23:59:59 |
LAFE:
Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment
The Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE; pronounced “la-fey”) deploys several state-of-the art scanning lidar and remote sensing systems to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility’s...
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2017-08-01 00:00:00 |
2017-08-31 23:59:59 |
Pre-BB-FLUX:
Pre Biomass Burning Fluxes of Trace Gases and Aerosols
The 2017 Pre Biomass Burning Fluxes of Trace Gases and Aerosols campaign tested the installation of the CU solar tracker and the CU SOF on the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft in the fall of 2017. During the testing period the aircraft...
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2017-08-01 00:00:00 |
2017-10-31 23:59:59 |
ACE-ENA:
Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic
The HOLODEC instrument has been upgraded with new software and cooling capabilities. It will be flying on the DOE G-1 aircraft as part of ACE-ENA to evaluate these upgrades during low level flight in warm temperatures. RAF is supporting the...
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2017-06-15 00:00:00 |
2018-02-28 23:59:59 |
VORTEX-SE_2017:
Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2017 Field Campaign
The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Is a research program designed to understand how environmental factors characteristic of the southeastern United States affect the formation, intensity, structure...
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2017-03-01 00:00:00 |
2017-05-08 23:59:59 |
ARISTO2017:
Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity 2017 (ARISTO2017)
The Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity 2017 (ARISTO2017) is a newly-created NSF-sponsored flight test program that will be conducted annually on one of the NSF/NCAR aircraft. The purpose of the ARISTO program is to provide regular...
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2017-02-20 00:00:00 |
2017-03-10 23:59:59 |
RELAMPAGO_2017:
RELAMPAGO Dry Run
This is a dry run for the RELAMPAGO project approximately 1 year ahead of the actual field campaign. For the permanent field project please see https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/553
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2016-12-20 00:00:00 |
2018-09-30 23:59:59 |
Perdigao:
Perdigao Field Experiment
The goal of Perdigao is to improve our understanding of flow over complex terrain, including any effects of vegetation and heterogeneity at the surface, with a specific target of improving wind prediction in complex terrain at microscale. Of...
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2016-12-15 00:00:00 |
2017-07-15 23:59:59 |
SNOWIE:
Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds - the Idaho Experiment
The overarching goal of SNOWIE is to understand the natural dynamical and microphysical processes by which precipitation forms and evolves within orographic winter storms and to determine the physical processes by which cloud seeding with silver iodide...
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2016-11-15 00:00:00 |
2017-03-17 23:59:59 |
ECLIPSE:
Pathfinder and science observations of the infrared solar corona during the 21st August 2017 total eclipse
This project aims to measure, for the first time, the infrared spectrum of the solar corona from 2 to 12 µ. Three experiments are planned to fly on the GV aircraft to accompany the spectral survey from the ground, producing partial images of the corona...
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2016-10-19 00:00:00 |
2017-08-21 23:59:59 |
MITTS:
Monitoring the Intensification and Track of Tropical Storms (MITTS)
The purpose of the MITTS (Monitoring the Intensification and Track of Tropical Storms) project was to support NOAA operational hurricane tracking and observations while the G-IV was undergoing repairs. The NSF/NCAR GV was outfitted with AVAPS to take...
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2016-08-29 00:00:00 |
2016-10-14 23:59:59 |
VERTEX:
Vertical Enhanced Mixing Experiment
VERTEX is a University of Delaware research project led by Cristina Archer to study the effect of the wake of a wind turbine on the atmosphere-surface exchange of momentum, sensible heat and water vapor.
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2016-08-15 00:00:00 |
2016-11-04 23:59:59 |
ARISTO2016:
Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity 2016
The Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity 2016 (ARISTO2016) is a newly-created NSF-sponsored flight test program that will be conducted annually on one of the NSF/NCAR aircraft. The purpose of the ARISTO program is to provide regular...
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2016-08-01 00:00:00 |
2016-08-19 23:59:59 |
Operations:
EOL Operations
This is an internal project meant to contain ongoing or episodic data collection from EOL instruments. This project should not contain products or data related to externally funded field campaigns.
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2016-06-01 00:00:00 |
9999-12-31 23:59:59 |
SPURS-2:
Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study 2
The field program Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (SPURS) was specifically designed to examine processes affecting near-surface salinity. SPURS was envisioned as a two-phase effort, with the first phase focusing on the salinity...
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2016-06-01 00:00:00 |
2017-11-30 23:59:59 |
VORTEX-SE_2016:
Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2016 Field Campaign
The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Is a research program designed to understand how environmental factors characteristic of the southeastern United States affect the formation, intensity, structure...
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2016-03-01 00:00:00 |
2016-05-05 23:59:59 |
ORCAS:
The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study
The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study is an NSF sponsored airborne field campaign with research flights planned from Punta Arenas, Chile during January and February of 2016. The Southern Ocean plays a dominant role in the...
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2016-01-10 00:00:00 |
2016-03-01 23:59:59 |
LROSE:
Lidar Radar Open Software Environment
The LROSE (Lidar Radar Open Software Environment) software development is a 4-year joint project between the Atmospheric Science Department at Colorado State University (CSU) and the Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) at the National Center for...
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2016-01-01 00:00:00 |
2020-12-31 23:59:59 |
APAR:
Airborne Phased Array Radar
APAR datasets that are stored in the EOL Data Archive, including those from APAR related sub-projects are available here. The EOL Aircraft Instrumentation page contains a description, the development status by year, advantages, applications, funding...
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2016-01-01 00:00:00 |
2019-12-31 23:59:59 |
OLYMPEX:
Olympic Mountains Experiment
The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) is a ground validation field campaign designed to verify and validate satellite measurements of precipitation from the constellation of satellites known as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM). The...
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2015-11-01 00:00:00 |
2016-01-17 23:59:59 |
ICEBRIDGE-2015:
Antarctic 2015 Operation IceBridge
IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. These flights will provide a yearly,...
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2015-09-18 00:00:00 |
2015-11-04 23:59:59 |
ARISTO:
Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity
The Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity (ARISTO) is a newly-created NSF-sponsored flight test program that will be conducted annually on one of the NSF/NCAR aircraft. The purpose of the ARISTO program is to provide regular flight test...
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2015-09-14 00:00:00 |
2015-10-02 23:59:59 |
SHOUT:
Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology
Targeted observations from aircraft in oceanic regions could significantly improve how well weather models forecast significant events such as (1) tropical storms, (2) winter storms and (3) major floods. The long duration and large oceanic areas that...
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2015-08-25 00:00:00 |
2016-09-25 23:59:59 |
HIWC-RADAR-2015:
High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2015
The goal of the High Ice Water Content (HIWC) RADAR Flight Campaign is to develop a means to remotely identify regions of HIWC ahead of an aircraft to enable tactical detect and avoidance decision making by a flight crew. HIWC conditions occur in deep...
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2015-08-10 00:00:00 |
2015-08-30 23:59:59 |
CSET:
Cloud System Evolution in the Trades
The Cloud Systems Evolution in the Trades (CSET) study aims to describe and explain the evolution of the boundary layer aerosol, cloud, and thermodynamic structures along trajectories within the north-Pacific trade-winds using the NSF Gulfstream V ...
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2015-06-01 00:00:00 |
2015-08-15 23:59:59 |
TCI:
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment
The goal of the Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) initiative is to improve the prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and structure change. The specific focus is an improved understanding of TC upper-level outflow layer processes and dynamics....
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2015-06-01 00:00:00 |
2017-12-31 23:59:59 |
CCOPE-2015:
Chilean Coastal Orographic Precipitation Experiment
CCOPE was an exploratory field campaign in Chile's Nahuelbuta Mountains south of Concepción, from 5/22/15 - 8/15/15. Researchers from UAlbany, the University of Wyoming, the University of Colorado, the Universidad de Concepcion, and the Universidad de...
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2015-05-22 00:00:00 |
2015-08-15 23:59:59 |
SABIRPOD:
SABIR Pod Test Flights
RAF is currently working with the Air National Guard (ANG) to test the capability of the ANG Special Airborne Mission Installation and Response (SABIR) arm for atmospheric research. This extendable arm is an easily deployed door-mounted capability that...
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2015-05-11 00:00:00 |
2015-05-27 23:59:59 |
PECAN:
Plains Elevated Convection at Night
The PECAN campaign is envisioned as a multi-agency, international project (NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE; Canada, Germany, UK) designed to advance the understanding of continental nocturnal warm-season precipitation. PECAN will focus on nocturnal convection in...
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2015-04-01 00:00:00 |
2015-07-16 23:59:59 |
HAIC-HIWC_2015:
High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content Project - 2015
The purpose of the HAIC/HIWC International field campaign is to collect cloud data in deep convective clouds to fulfill the industry and scientific objectives, as outlined in the HIWC Science Plan and the HAIC Description of Work. In particular the...
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2015-04-01 00:00:00 |
2015-05-31 23:59:59 |
CABL:
Characterizing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
The “Characterizing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer” (CABL) educational deployment leveraged multiple outreach opportunities to provide scientific opportunities to high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in Colorado’s Front Range. Several EOL...
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2015-02-23 00:00:00 |
2015-04-15 23:59:59 |
WINTER:
Wintertime Investigation of Transport, Emission, and Reactivity
WINTER is an atmospheric chemistry campaign that focuses on wintertime emissions and chemical processes in the Northeastern US. The project has three goals: (1) to characterize the chemical transformations of wintertime emissions with an equal focus on...
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2015-02-01 00:00:00 |
2015-03-15 23:59:59 |
NOREASTER:
Nor'easter
Nor'easter consists of a single flight on the NSF/NCAR HIAPER Gulfstream-V research aircraft to fly the HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) across the comma head of a strong Nor'easter cyclone in an attempt to determine unambiguously whether or not generating...
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2015-01-30 00:00:00 |
2015-02-03 23:59:59 |
MASCRAD:
Multi Angle Snowflake Camera-Radar experiment
Detailed snow particle imagery will be taken by a custom-designed multiple view digital camera. The resultant 3D representations of the particles will be used to initialize an improved electromagnetic scattering model. The model results will be...
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2014-11-15 00:00:00 |
2015-03-31 23:59:59 |
HCR-Test:
HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) Test
The HIAPER Cloud Radar (HCR) Test project is a test flight program out of the Research Avaition Facility (RAF) in Broomfield, CO. The goal of the program is to flight test several instruments (HCR, HARP, AVPAS) for the upcoming Cloud System Evolution...
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2014-11-10 00:00:00 |
2014-11-21 23:59:59 |
BaSE_CaMP_II:
Boundary Structure Experiments with Central Minnesota Profiling II
In the fall of 2012, Saint Cloud State University was visited by a Mobile Integrated Sounding System (MISS) provided by NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory. The deployment was termed Boundary Structure Experiments with Central Minnesota Profiling (BaSE...
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2014-10-18 00:00:00 |
2014-11-18 23:59:59 |
FRAPPE:
Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment
FRAPPE is looking at the air quality in the Northern Front Range Metropolitan Area (NFRMA) around Denver, Colorado and has important science and societal aspects. FRAPPE is focused on the following issues: The factors that control NFRMA surface ozone...
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2014-06-30 00:00:00 |
2014-08-25 23:59:59 |
DEEPWAVE:
A Study of Deeply Propagating Gravity Waves from the Earth's Surface to the Mesosphere
DEEPWAVE is going to study the dynamics of gravity waves (GWs) from the surface of the earth to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). The project examines how tropospheric winds and storms modulate the generation of GWs, how GWs propagate...
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2014-06-01 00:00:00 |
2014-07-31 23:59:59 |
PECAN_2014:
PECAN 2014 Dry Run
The PECAN campaign is envisioned as a multi-agency, international project (NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE; Canada, Germany, UK) designed to advance the understanding of continental nocturnal warm-season precipitation. PECAN will focus on nocturnal convection in...
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2014-04-15 00:00:00 |
2014-06-13 23:59:59 |
FRONT:
Front Range Observational Network Testbed
FRONT: A testbed for innovative weather and climate technology development; leading, promoting and enabling geoscience research and education. FRONT provides the atmospheric science community with an easily accessible, cost-efficient, observational...
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2014-04-01 00:00:00 |
2015-04-08 23:59:59 |
LATTE:
Lower Atmospheric Thermodynamics & Turbulence Experiment
Background The purpose of this document is to briefly outline and discuss the upcoming Lower Atmospheric Thermodynamics & Turbulence Experiment (LATTE) to be conducted at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in February of 2014. A primary...
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2014-02-10 00:00:00 |
2014-02-28 23:59:59 |
IFRACS_2014:
Isotopic Fractionation in Snow
The Isotopic Fractionation in Snow experiment (IFRACS) is a meteorological research program conducted near Steamboat Springs, CO. This campaign was designed to investigate whether or not the degree of riming on the snow crystals could be determined by...
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2014-01-17 00:00:00 |
2014-02-28 23:59:59 |
HAIC-HIWC:
High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content Project 2014
The purpose of the HAIC/HIWC International field campaign is to collect cloud data in deep convective clouds to fulfill the industry and scientific objectives, as outlined in the HIWC Science Plan and the HAIC Description of Work. In particular the...
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2014-01-15 00:00:00 |
2014-03-15 23:59:59 |
CONTRAST:
Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics
The Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) experiment is designed to measure the chemistry and transport of reactive chemical species into the tropical Tropopause Transition Layer (TTL) over the Western Pacific warm pool...
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2014-01-11 00:00:00 |
2014-03-03 23:59:59 |
