Lidar Investigations of Aerosol, Cloud, and Boundary Layer Properties Over the ARM ACRF Sites
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); NOAA National Severe Storms Lab., Norman, OK (United States)
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA (United States)
The systematic and routine measurements of aerosol, water vapor, and clouds in the vertical column above the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites from surface-based remote sensing systems provides a unique and comprehensive data source that can be used to characterize the boundary layer (i.e., the lowest 3 km of the atmosphere) and its evolution. New algorithms have been developed to provide critical datasets from ARM instruments, and these datasets have been used in long-term analyses to better understand the climatology of water vapor and aerosol over Darwin, the turbulent structure of the boundary layer and its statistical properties over Oklahoma, and to better determine the distribution of ice and aerosol particles over northern Alaska.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0006898
- OSTI ID:
- 1256713
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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