PNNL's Atmospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory (PARSL)
Instrument Categories: Radiometric, Cloud Properties, Surface Meteorology, Atmospheric Profiling, Airborne Observations
IOPs Where the Instrument was Used
CRYSTAL-FACE
Off Site Campaign, June 26, 2002 - August 1, 2002Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment
North Slope Alaska, 2004-09-27 -- 2004-10-21Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)
Tropical Western Pacific, 2006-01-21 -- 2006-02-13
Primary Measurements Taken
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- Precipitation
- Horizontal wind
- Cloud fraction
- Radar Doppler
- Cloud base height
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric moisture
- Cloud liquid water
- Atmospheric temperature
- Backscattered radiation
- Longwave broadband brightness temperature
- Microwave narrowband brightness temperature
- Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance