Racoro extended-term aircraft observations of boundary layer clouds

Andrew M. Vogelmann, Greg M. McFarquhar, John A. Ogren, David D. Turner, Jennifer M. Comstock, Graham Feingold, Charles N. Long, Haflidi H. Jonsson, Anthony Bucholtz, Don R. Collins, Glenn S. Diskin, Hermann Gerber, R. Paul Lawson, Roy K. Woods, Elisabeth Andrews, Hee Jung Yang, J. Christine Chiu, Daniel Hartsock, John M. Hubbe, Chaomei LoAlexander Marshak, Justin W. Monroe, Sally A. McFarlane, Beat Schmid, Jason M. Tomlinson, Tami Toto

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Abstract

The 2009 RACORO campaign obtained extended-term, in situ characterizations of boundary layer cloud fields needed to investigate cloud processes and evaluate and refine existing retrieval algorithms (e.g., Table 1). The observations provide a multidisciplinary dataset for open use by the atmospheric sciences community. Our review of these observations suggests that the dataset is rich and that the five-month period covers a range of environmental conditions during the seasonal changes from winter to summer. These data, which are augmented by the suite of surface-based observations available from the SGP ACRF site, enable interdisciplinary studies that are not possible with shorter-term deployments. All RACORO data are freely available, after registration, online (at www .arm.gov/campaigns/aaf2009racoro#data).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)861-878
Number of pages18
JournalBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume93
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atmospheric Science

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