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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 861-878 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
Volume | 93 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2012 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atmospheric Science