Campaign : Azores: Clouds, Aerosol and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL)
2009.05.01 - 2009.12.31
Website : http://www.arm.gov/sites/amf/grw/
Lead Scientist : Robert Wood
For data sets, see below.
Description
The ARM Mobile Facility will be deployed in the Azores to support the Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) field campaign. From April through December, the AMF will be located on Graciosa Island in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago located about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. The Azores are ideally located to sample the transition from the overcast stratocumulus regime in the spring to the broken trade cumulus regime in the summer. Led by principal investigator Robert Wood, scientists involved in the campaign will use data from the AMF to study processes controlling the radiative properties and microphysics of marine boundary layer clouds, a high priority science question.
Other Contacts
Co-Investigators
Thomas Ackerman
Bruce Albrecht
Christopher Bretherton
Hugh Coe
Chris Fairall
Graham Feingold
Rene Garreaud
Bjorn Stevens
David Turner
Routine Operations Data Sets
Instrument | Archived Data | |
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AERI | Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer | |
AOS | Aerosol Observing System | |
CCN | Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter | |
CSPHOT | Cimel Sunphotometer | |
ECOR | Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System | |
GNDRAD | Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation | |
IRT | Infrared Thermometer | |
MET | Surface Meteorological Instrumentation | |
MFRSR | Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer | |
MPL | Micropulse Lidar | |
MWR | Microwave Radiometer | |
MWRHF | Microwave Radiometer - High Frequency | |
MWRP | Microwave Radiometer Profiler | |
NFOV | Narrow Field of View Zenith Radiometer | |
RWP | Radar Wind Profiler | |
SKYRAD | Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation | |
SONDE | Balloon-Borne Sounding System | |
SWACR | W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar, mounted to scan | |
TSI | Total Sky Imager | |
TWRCAM | Tower Camera | |
VCEIL | Vaisala Ceilometer | |
WACR | W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar |