The Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds (MC3E) Experiment Final Campaign Report

Program Document · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1232676

Jensen, M ^[1]; Giangrande, S ^[1]; Kollias, P ^[2]

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1. Brookhaven National Laboratory
2. Stony Brook University

The Mid-latitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place from April 22 through June 6, 2011, centered at the ARM Southern Great Plains site (http://www.arm.gov/sites/sgp) in northcentral Oklahoma. MC3E was a collaborative effort between the ARM Climate Research Facility and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Ground Validation (GV) program. The campaign leveraged the largest ground-based observing infrastructure available in the central United States, including recent upgrades through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, combined with an extensive sounding array, remote sensing and in situ aircraft observations, and additional radar and in situ precipitation instrumentation. The overarching goal of the campaign was to provide a three-dimensional characterization of convective clouds and precipitation for the purpose of improving the representation of convective lifecycle in atmospheric models and the reliability of satellite-based retrievals of precipitation.

• Research Organization: DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-7601830
• OSTI ID: 1232676
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-14-012
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English