ICECAPS Observatory at Summit Station, Greenland
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In spring of 2010, the ongoing measurements at Summit Station (72° 36’N, 38° 25’W, 3250m), atop the Greenland Ice Sheet, were significantly enhanced with new capabilities to observe cloud, atmosphere, and precipitation properties. These upgrades were made by the Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) project, which is collaboratively-led by the University of Colorado, Washington State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. New instruments at the site include: cloud radar, depolarization lidar, micropulse lidar, infrared spectrometer, microwave radiometers, ceilometer, precipitation sensors, ice crystal imaging, and a twice-daily radiosonde program. The ICECAPS program will continue continue through summer of 2018 at a minimum. Overall programmatic and logistical support for these operations is provided by the National Science Foundation. Additional instrumental support is provided by the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, and Environment Canada.
This facility supports the research needs of the International community, across disciplines including supporting Global Atmosphere Watch measurements as well as other climate observations.
Check it out
ESRL/PSD researcher Matthew Shupe's blog about setting up the ICECAPS field experiment can be found at CIRES.
Find more information at the ICECAPS Project Web Page.
Summit Data
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Click image at left to view plots of the following instrument data at Summit:
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Datagrams
Summit_Millimeter Wavelength Cloud Radar- Summit_Ceilometer
- Summit_Polar Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
- Summit_Microwave Radiometer and Humidity and Temperature Profiler
- Summit_Micropulse Lidar
- Summit_Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System
- Summit_Sodar
- Summit_Radiosondes
- Summit_IcePIC
- Summit_Hotplate
- Summit_Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
- Summit_Total Sky Imager
- Summit_NOAA Broadband Radiation
A Datagram is a virtual data 'mentoring tool' intended to guide anyone accessing the data file or the instrumentation used to generate fields within that file. While a data user will ideally collaborate closely with a principal investigator, Datagrams provide a structured basis for independent inquiry and logical information exchange about data processing.
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- Millimeter Cloud Radar (MMCR)
- Cloud, Aerosol Polarization and Backscatter Lidar (CAPABL)
- Micropulse Lidar (MPL)
- Ceilometer
- Microwave Radiometer (MWR, MWR-HF, HATPRO)
- Polar Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (PAERI)
- Precipitation Occurrence Sensor System (POSS)
- Sodar
- Radiosonde
- Total Sky Imager (TSI)
- Broadband Radiation
- IcePIC
- Hotplate
- Multiangle Snowflake Camera (MASC)
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