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Title: Enhanced Soundings for Local Coupling Studies: 2015 ARM Climate Research Facility Field Campaign

Abstract

Matching observed diurnal cycles is a fundamental yet extremely complex test for models. High temporal resolution measurements of surface turbulent heat fluxes and boundary layer properties are required to evaluate the daytime evolution of the boundary layer and its sensitivity to land-atmosphere coupling. To address this need, (12) one-day intensive observing periods (IOP) with enhanced radiosonding will be carried out at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility (CF) during summer 2015. Each IOP will comprise a single launch to correspond with the nighttime overpass of the A-Train of satellites (~0830 UTC) and hourly launches during daytime beginning from 1130 UTC and ending at 2130 UTC. At 3-hourly intervals (i.e., 1140 UTC, 1440 UTC, 1740 UTC, and 2040 UTC) a duplicate second radiosonde will be launched 10 minutes subsequent to launch of the on-hour radiosonde for the purpose of assessing horizontal atmospheric variability. In summary, each IOP will have a 14-sounding supplement to the 6-hourly operational sounding schedule at the ARM-SGP CF. The IOP days will be decided before sunset on the preceding day, according to the judgment of the PI’s and taking into consideration daily weather forecasts and the operability of complimentary ARM-SGP CF instrumentation. An overarching goalmore » of the project is to address how ARM could better observe land-atmosphere coupling to support the evaluation and refinement of coupled weather and climate models.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. University at Albany-SUNY
  2. NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
  3. Columbia University
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1232666
Report Number(s):
DOE/SC-ARM-15-035
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-7601830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Ferguson, CR, Santanello, JA, and Gentine, P. Enhanced Soundings for Local Coupling Studies: 2015 ARM Climate Research Facility Field Campaign. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1232666.
Ferguson, CR, Santanello, JA, & Gentine, P. Enhanced Soundings for Local Coupling Studies: 2015 ARM Climate Research Facility Field Campaign. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1232666
Ferguson, CR, Santanello, JA, and Gentine, P. 2015. "Enhanced Soundings for Local Coupling Studies: 2015 ARM Climate Research Facility Field Campaign". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1232666. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1232666.
@article{osti_1232666,
title = {Enhanced Soundings for Local Coupling Studies: 2015 ARM Climate Research Facility Field Campaign},
author = {Ferguson, CR and Santanello, JA and Gentine, P},
abstractNote = {Matching observed diurnal cycles is a fundamental yet extremely complex test for models. High temporal resolution measurements of surface turbulent heat fluxes and boundary layer properties are required to evaluate the daytime evolution of the boundary layer and its sensitivity to land-atmosphere coupling. To address this need, (12) one-day intensive observing periods (IOP) with enhanced radiosonding will be carried out at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility (CF) during summer 2015. Each IOP will comprise a single launch to correspond with the nighttime overpass of the A-Train of satellites (~0830 UTC) and hourly launches during daytime beginning from 1130 UTC and ending at 2130 UTC. At 3-hourly intervals (i.e., 1140 UTC, 1440 UTC, 1740 UTC, and 2040 UTC) a duplicate second radiosonde will be launched 10 minutes subsequent to launch of the on-hour radiosonde for the purpose of assessing horizontal atmospheric variability. In summary, each IOP will have a 14-sounding supplement to the 6-hourly operational sounding schedule at the ARM-SGP CF. The IOP days will be decided before sunset on the preceding day, according to the judgment of the PI’s and taking into consideration daily weather forecasts and the operability of complimentary ARM-SGP CF instrumentation. An overarching goal of the project is to address how ARM could better observe land-atmosphere coupling to support the evaluation and refinement of coupled weather and climate models.},
doi = {10.2172/1232666},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1232666}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}