Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment Field Campaign Report
- University of Hohenheim
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
The Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE; pronounced “la-fey”) deployed several state-of-the-art scanning lidar and remote-sensing systems to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. These instruments augmented the ARM instrument suite and collected a data set for studying feedback processes between the land surface and the atmosphere. The novel synergy of remote-sensing systems was applied for simultaneous measurements of land surface fluxes and horizontal and vertical transport processes in the atmospheric convective boundary layer (CBL) (Wulfmeyer et al. 2018). The impact of spatial inhomogeneities of the soil-vegetation continuum on land-atmosphere (L-A) feedback was studied using the scanning capability of the instrumentation. The time period of the observations was August 2017, as large differences in surface fluxes between different fields and bare soil were expected, e.g., pastures versus fields where the wheat has already been harvested. The LAFE strategy involved sampling the surface fluxes over different types of surfaces, and thus the in situ energy balance closure (EBC) stations were placed in fields with different plant covers (e.g., soy bean plants, native grasses, etc.).
- 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)
- Contributing Organization:
- University of Hohenheim, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-ACO5-7601830
- OSTI ID:
- 1424219
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM-18-007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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