Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Experiments (POPEYE) Field Campaign Report
The arctic region is rapidly evolving, and enhanced predictive capabilities, for both weather and climate, are urgently required. Therefore, the international community is executing an extended period of focused observations and modeling of the arctic environment, dubbed the Year of Polar Prediction...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1525870 2023-07-30T04:01:00+02:00 Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Experiments (POPEYE) Field Campaign Report de Boer, Gijs Shupe, Matthew Solomon, Amy Intrieri, Janet 2019-06-17 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1525870 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1525870 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1525870 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1525870 2019 ftosti 2023-07-11T09:34:03Z The arctic region is rapidly evolving, and enhanced predictive capabilities, for both weather and climate, are urgently required. Therefore, the international community is executing an extended period of focused observations and modeling of the arctic environment, dubbed the Year of Polar Prediction or YOPP. The YOPP featured two special observing periods (SOPs) (and will feature a third in 2020). The first of the completed SOPs occurred in the spring of 2018, and the second during the late summer and early fall of 2018. Here, we summarize the deployment of additional U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility resources to the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) at Oliktok Point, Alaska during the second three-month SOP (1 July 2018–30 September 2018). This deployment, named POPEYE (Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance YOPP Experiments), included the launching of extra radiosondes (one more per day) and operation of ARM-operated unmanned aircraft (DataHawk 2s) and ARM-operated tethered balloons. These instruments conducted routine profiling activities over the course of the special observing period to obtain measurements of atmospheric thermodynamic structure, cloud and precipitation properties, and aerosol properties. These measurements are expected to be used for a variety of purposes, including: 1) to conduct detailed studies of arctic cloud and aerosol processes; 2) to inform YOPP modeling efforts through real-time availability for assimilation into operational and research analysis products; 3) to evaluate and improve retrieval algorithms involving ARM remote sensors; 4) to evaluate and improve a variety of modeling tools being used to forecast arctic weather and climate; and 5) to initialize and evaluate simulations associated with a potential arctic large-eddy (LES) simulation framework similar to the ongoing LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) project. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Alaska SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Arctic |
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The arctic region is rapidly evolving, and enhanced predictive capabilities, for both weather and climate, are urgently required. Therefore, the international community is executing an extended period of focused observations and modeling of the arctic environment, dubbed the Year of Polar Prediction or YOPP. The YOPP featured two special observing periods (SOPs) (and will feature a third in 2020). The first of the completed SOPs occurred in the spring of 2018, and the second during the late summer and early fall of 2018. Here, we summarize the deployment of additional U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility resources to the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) at Oliktok Point, Alaska during the second three-month SOP (1 July 2018–30 September 2018). This deployment, named POPEYE (Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance YOPP Experiments), included the launching of extra radiosondes (one more per day) and operation of ARM-operated unmanned aircraft (DataHawk 2s) and ARM-operated tethered balloons. These instruments conducted routine profiling activities over the course of the special observing period to obtain measurements of atmospheric thermodynamic structure, cloud and precipitation properties, and aerosol properties. These measurements are expected to be used for a variety of purposes, including: 1) to conduct detailed studies of arctic cloud and aerosol processes; 2) to inform YOPP modeling efforts through real-time availability for assimilation into operational and research analysis products; 3) to evaluate and improve retrieval algorithms involving ARM remote sensors; 4) to evaluate and improve a variety of modeling tools being used to forecast arctic weather and climate; and 5) to initialize and evaluate simulations associated with a potential arctic large-eddy (LES) simulation framework similar to the ongoing LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) project. |
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de Boer, Gijs Shupe, Matthew Solomon, Amy Intrieri, Janet |
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Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Experiments (POPEYE) Field Campaign Report |
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Profiling at Oliktok Point to Enhance Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) Experiments (POPEYE) Field Campaign Report |
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