AHATS - Advection Horizontal Array Turbulence Study
May - August 2008
San Joaquin Valley, CA
Studying the effects of the subgrid-scale turbulence on the resolvable-scale statistics and to develop new SGS models.
AMAZE08 BEACHON LBL
February 5-March 5, 2008
Manaus, Brazil
Study properties of Amazonian aerosols
ANFTS - ACD NDALL FTS
Sept. 1999-ongoing
Thule, Greenland
ACD's contribution to global observation network: Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC)
ARCTAS
Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere
February 25 to July 18, 2008
Palmdale, CA, Fairbanks, AK, Cold Lake, Canada, and Thule, Greenland
Antarctica GPS
Project - Study of ice flow in Antarctica
1995-ongoing
BuFEX I & II - Bunny Fence Experiment
South Western Australia
Phase I - December 2005
Phase II - July-August 2007
To study the marked difference in climate caused by this man-made boundary during different stages of the growing season.
CHATS - Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence
March 1-April 30, 2007
Central Valley of California
Study of the turbulent transport within plant canopies using several ISFF stations.
CLIMODE - Clivar Mode Water Dynamics Experiment
February 1-March 31, 2007
RV Knorr (Atlantic Ocean)
Woodshole, MA; Bermuda
CLIMODE will study the dynamics of "Eighteen Degree Water" (EDW), the subtropical mode water of the North Atlantic. EOL will provide one shipboard ISS for two cruises.
CONCORDIASI
See THORPEX
COPS - Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study
June 1, 2007 thru August 31, 2007
Southern Germany and Eastern France
EOL is Participating
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast campaign featuring the newest generation of measurement systems such as scanning radar and lidar and leading to outstanding advances in atmospheric sciences.
CPS - Cloud and Precipitation Studies Using a mm wavelength radar
Aug 1 - Sept 30, 2008
South Florida
Improve knowledge and understanding of key cloud and precipitation processes and provide high resolution observations needed to evaluate cloud resolving and explicit cloud models and techniques for measuring precipitation remotely.
Healy Cruises -
Healy Cruises 06/07
Various date - 2006 - 2008
Seattle, WA, Dutch Harbor, AK and Barrow, AK
Development of real-time data systems and mapping
ICE-L - Ice in Clouds Experiment
March 1 - April 6, 2007
JeffCo Airport, Broomfield, CO
Experiment to measure direct nucleation or other specific measurable characteristics of the aerosol to predict the number of ice particles forming by nucleation mechanisms in selected clouds
ISPA II - Inhibition of Snowfall of Pollution Aerosols (ISPA 2007)
January 1-February 28, 2007
Steamboat Springs, CO
Second phase of project that studies the effect of second indirect aerosol effect, i.e. the reduction of cloud droplet size associated with pollution aerosol loading
JNU - Juneau
Field Project
Sept 2002 - ongoing
Juneau, Alaska
Atmospheric turbulence
and windshear data will be analyzed and used in the development of an operational
wind hazard system to guide airport operations.
KPASA
November 2006 - November 2007
Siyadh, Saudi Arabia
Program for assessment of rainfall augmentation
K-PASA
November 1, 2006 - December 31, 2007
Riyadh, Abha, Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Assess the cloud and rainfall distribution over multiple seasons. Document microphysics and dynamics of both natural and seeded clouds.
Maintenance & Observations of NDSC FTS
Ongoing - 2-3 visits yearly
Thule, Greenland
Maintain and make observations with the FTS instrument at Thule, Greenland 15-20 year program. Remotely operated with 2-3 visits per year.
PACDEX
March - April 2007
Alaska Hawaii, Japan
Study the plume of dust and anthropogenic aerosols from Eurasia across the Pacific
PASE - Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment
August 1 - September 5, 2007
Christmas Island, Kiribati, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean
Comprehensive study of the chemistry of sulfur in the remote marine troposphere.
QUEENSLAND - Queensland program for the Assessment of Rainfall Augmentation
November 2007 - May 2008
Brisbane, Australia
Assess cloud and rainfall distribution over Queensland, Australia, and characterize gas and aerosol distributions and variability.
START08 - Stratosphere-Troposphere Analysis of Regional Transport
April 21 - May 16, 2008
Jeffco Facility, Broomfield, CO
Study the chemical and transport characteristics of the extratropical upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric region.
TC4 - Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling
June thru August 2007
California, Texas, and Costa Rica
MMM, ACD, NASA
THORPEX - Pacific Regional Campaign TPARC
Aug 1 - Sept 30, 2008
Japan, Guam, Hawaii Monterey CA
Multi-National campaign addressing the shorter-range dynamics and forecast skill on one region (Eastern Asian and the Western North pacific)and it impact on the medium-range dynamics and forecast skill of another region (Eastern North pacific and North America).
TiMREX - Terrain-influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment
May 15 - June 30, 2008
Southern Taiwan
Multi-agency program conducted the plain and western mountain slope regions of southern Taiwan
TPARC
See THORPEX
UAE Field Project - UAE Rainfall and Air Chemistry Project
September 2000 -
ongoing
Abu Dhabi, and various
locations in The United Arab Emirates
Feasibility study
for the potential for rainfall enhancement via cloud seeding
WYOMING WEATHER
MODIFICATION PILOT PROGRAM
December 2005 - March 2011
Wyoming - area surrounding Medicine Bow, Sierra Madre, Wind River mountain
ranges Cheyenne, WY
Provide evaluation of wintertime precipitation activities conducted during
pilot program
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