The 1997 Southern California ozone study-NARSTO: Upper-air meteorological sampling network
- California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA (United States); and others
The center piece of the Southern California Ozone Study (SCOS-NARSTO) was field study conducted through the period June 15, through October 15, 1997. The primary objective of the field study was to collect data sets that could be used with photochemical models to represent the formation and transport of ozone throughout the southern California region. To meet this objective, an upper-air monitoring network was put in place that included 26 Radar Wind Profilers (RWP) and Radio Acoustic Sounding Systems (RASS) and 5 doppler acoustic sounders which were operated continuously during the study period. This network was supplemented by 16 rawinsonde and ozonesonde sites, from which 4 flights were made on each of 13 IOP days for which high ozone concentrations were forecast. In this paper, the SCOS-NARSTO upper-air meteorology sampling network is described. The procedures for selecting the RWP/RASS sampling sites for the field study are described and the expected upper-air meteorology data archive for the field study is summarized.
- OSTI ID:
- 362009
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980632--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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