Final Report of FY 1999, 2000, and 2001 Activities: Continued Development of an Integrated Sounding System in Support of the DOE/ARM Experimental Program

• Main Author: Ed R. Westwater CIRES, University of Colorado /NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory 325 Broadway MS R/E/ET1 Boulder, Colorado 80305
• Other Authors: United States
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Technology Laboratory (United States) 2002
• Subjects: Usa; Clouds; Radiant Heat Transfer; Water Vapor Water Vapor; Cloud Liquid; Microwave Radiometers; Integrated Sounding System; Radiative Transfer B139; Water Vapor; Algorithms; Arctic Ocean; Climates; Radiations; Probes; 54 Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Pacific; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/793846; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc742140/

OAK B188 FINAL REPORT OF FY 1999, 2000, AND 2001 ACTIVITIES: CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED SOUNDING SYSTEM IN SUPPORT OF THE DOE/ARM EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM The basic goals of the research are to develop and test algorithms and deploy instruments that improve measurements of atmospheric quantities relevant to radiative transfer and climate research. Primary among these atmospheric variables are integrated amounts of water vapor and cloud liquid, as well as profiles of temperature, water vapor and cloud liquid. A primary thrust of this research is to combine data from instruments available to ARM to maximize their importance in radiative transfer and climate research. To gather data relevant to these studies, participation in field experiments, especially intensive operating periods, as well as the subsequent analysis and dissemination of collected data, is of primary importance. Examples of relevant experiments include several Water Vapor Intensive Operating Periods at the Southern Great Plains Cloud And Radiation Testbed site, experiments in the Tropical Western Pacific such as PROBE and Nauru'99, and experiments at the North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic Ocean site. This final report describes our analyses of data taken during these field experiments.