Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) Field Campaign Report

• Main Authors: Geerts, Bart, McFarquhar, Greg, Xue, Lulin, Jensen, Michael, Kollias, Pavlos, Ovchinnikov, Mikhail, Shupe, Matthew, DeMott, Paul, Wang, Yonggang, Tjernstrom, Michael, Field, Paul, Abel, Steven, Spengler, T., Neggers, Roel, Crewell, Susanne, Wendisch, Manfred, Lupkes, C.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Arctic; Norwegian Sea; Bear Island
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1763013; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1763013; https://doi.org/10.2172/1763013

The Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) was conducted successfully between 1 December 2019 and 31 May 2020 around the Norwegian Sea. COMBLE deployed the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) first Mobile Facility (AMF1) along the coast of northern Scandinavia, at an arctic latitude (70°N), and an array of additional instruments on Bear Island (75°N) in the Norwegian Sea. The instruments deployed at these two sites collected a large array of in situ and remote-sensing observations of atmospheric conditions, clouds, precipitation, and aerosol. The main objective of COMBLE is to quantify the properties of shallow convective clouds that develop as part of an air-mass transformation process when cold air blows over open water. The two COMBLE sites are located at ~1,200 km and ~500 km from the cold source, i.e., arctic ice edge, respectively.