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Upper-air soundings collected during the CROCUS Urban Canyons 2024 campaign in Chicago, Illinois USA
Abstract
Funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) studies urban climate change and the impact it has on communities, with particular focus on disinvested, under-resourced communities. This information leads to new insights on urban climate challenges and informs future actions for mitigating and adapting to climate change at the street, neighborhood and regional levels.As part of the CROCUS effort, the Urban Canyons 2024 project was undertaken to study conditions at unprecedented detail over various neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. This dataset consists of upper air soundings that were collected as part of this effort. Soundings were launched during two intensive observing periods, IOP1 occurred on 22-23 July 2024, while IOP2 occurred on 27-28 July 2024. For IOP1, soundings were launched at coordinated times from three sites, Shedd Aquarium in Downtown Chicago, Abizu Campus High School in Humboldt Park, and Gary Comer Youth Center in West Woodlawn. For IOP2, the Gary Comer site was replaced by a neighborhood site in West Woodlawn, Chicago. The Abizu Campos site was operated by Valparaiso University and used iMET-4 rawinsondes, the other sites were operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign andmore »
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Valparaiso University
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Research Org.:
- Community Research on Climate and Urban Science Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (CROCUS UIFL)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS; pressure; rawinsondes
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2447442
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15485/2447442
Citation Formats
Nesbitt, Stephen, Hence, Deanna, Blind-Doskocil, Leanne, and Grover, Maxwell. Upper-air soundings collected during the CROCUS Urban Canyons 2024 campaign in Chicago, Illinois USA. United States: N. p., 2024.
Web. doi:10.15485/2447442.
Nesbitt, Stephen, Hence, Deanna, Blind-Doskocil, Leanne, & Grover, Maxwell. Upper-air soundings collected during the CROCUS Urban Canyons 2024 campaign in Chicago, Illinois USA. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2447442
Nesbitt, Stephen, Hence, Deanna, Blind-Doskocil, Leanne, and Grover, Maxwell. 2024.
"Upper-air soundings collected during the CROCUS Urban Canyons 2024 campaign in Chicago, Illinois USA". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/2447442. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2447442. Pub date:Mon Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2024
@article{osti_2447442,
title = {Upper-air soundings collected during the CROCUS Urban Canyons 2024 campaign in Chicago, Illinois USA},
author = {Nesbitt, Stephen and Hence, Deanna and Blind-Doskocil, Leanne and Grover, Maxwell},
abstractNote = {Funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) studies urban climate change and the impact it has on communities, with particular focus on disinvested, under-resourced communities. This information leads to new insights on urban climate challenges and informs future actions for mitigating and adapting to climate change at the street, neighborhood and regional levels.As part of the CROCUS effort, the Urban Canyons 2024 project was undertaken to study conditions at unprecedented detail over various neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. This dataset consists of upper air soundings that were collected as part of this effort. Soundings were launched during two intensive observing periods, IOP1 occurred on 22-23 July 2024, while IOP2 occurred on 27-28 July 2024. For IOP1, soundings were launched at coordinated times from three sites, Shedd Aquarium in Downtown Chicago, Abizu Campus High School in Humboldt Park, and Gary Comer Youth Center in West Woodlawn. For IOP2, the Gary Comer site was replaced by a neighborhood site in West Woodlawn, Chicago. The Abizu Campos site was operated by Valparaiso University and used iMET-4 rawinsondes, the other sites were operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and used GRAW DFM-19 sondes.This dataset contains netCDF files containing quality-controlled temperature, dewpoint, geopotential height, pressure, and vector wind measurements at 1 second intervals following launch. These files are readable by the open-source netCDF software libraries available in many software packages (i.e., python, R, fortran, C++, etc.). The dataset also contains quicklook plots of each launch on a skew-T log-p thermodynamic diagram. These are in png format viewable by most web browsers.},
doi = {10.15485/2447442},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2024},
month = {Mon Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2024}
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