GPE
- Greenland Photochemical Experiment
March 14 - May 8, 2004
Summit Camp - Greenland Ice Sheet
Study photochemical rxus and penetration of sunlight into snow
GPS Atmospheric
Sensory on the Ocean
August 22-30, 2003
Miami, San Juan, St. Martin, VI
Collect GPS data from low elevation satellites over the open ocean from a
large displacement ship
GSCE - Greenland
Snow Chemistry Experiment
June 1 - July 20, 2003
Greenland Ice Cap
Investigate the penetration of UV radiation into the Greenland snow pack -
measure trace gases produced from reactions
HVAMS - Hudson Valley Ambient Meteorology Study
Sept 15 - Oct 31, 2003
Hudson Valley, NY
Study terrain-modified boundary layer using ISFF and TAOS
ICARTT - International
Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation
June 14 - August 5, 2004
Portsmouth, NH and Tampa, FL
Study air quality and transportation of the NE US. Measure trace organic
gases from samples collected aboard NOAA P-3 aircraft
ICARTT-NENA
May 28 - August 15, 2004
Portsmouth, NH and Tampa, FL
Investigation of outflow from North American pollution sources
IDEAS - Instrument
Development and Education in Airborne Science
April 2002 and October
2002
Broomfield, CO
Instrument development
program to improve the capability of instrumentation for future NSF airborne
deployments.
IDEAS III -
Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science III
June 1 - Sept 30, 2003
JeffCo, Colorado
Use C-130 as platform to test newly developed instrumentation
IHOP 2002
- International H2O Project
May 13 - June 25,
2002
Oklahoma City and
Norman, OK
Improve 4D distribution
and application to better understand and predict convection.
IMPEX -
Intercontinental and Megacity Pollution Experiment
April 1 - April 30, 2006
Seattle, WA
Tracking of pollution plume across the Pacific Ocean with C-130 and SABL
INDONESIA FEASIBILITY
STUDY - Feasibility study of rainfall enhancement
April 15 - May 30, 2005
Soroako, Indonesia
Rainfall enhancement feasibility study
INTEX-A
June 3 - August 20, 2004
Edward Air Force Base Edwards, CA, St. Louis, MO and Portsmouth, NH
Study emmissions from US being exported to the Atlantic ocean and further
transport to Europe
INTEX-B
February 1 - May 15, 2006
Grand Forks, ND/Houston, TX/Honolulu, HI/Anchorage, AK
Characterize pollution outflow from Mexico City and Asia
INTEX-NA -
Intercontinental Transport Experiment - North America
June 3 - August 20, 2004
Edwards, CA to St. Louis, MO to Portsmouth, NH
To measure formaldehyde outflow and chemistry from the transport of pollution
from North America to the remote Atlantic Ocean.
ISCAT - Investigation
of Sulfur Chemistry in the Antarctic Troposphere
Nov 15, 2000 thru January
15, 2001
At the South Pole to quantify the local source of NO at the South
Pole and determine if the high concentrations of NO are contributed to
the snow pack.
ISPA - Snowfall
Rate Reduction by Pollution Aerosols
January 12, 2003
Steamboat Springs,
CO
Confirm that aerosols
decrease snowfall rate by inhibiting riming process.
LDEO/COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY USCGC HEALY SUPPORT
April - September 2005
Boulder, CO and aboard the USCGC Healy
Provide engineering support for LDEO on USCGC Healy operations in the Arctic
Ocean.
LUCIE - Land
Use and Cloud Interaction Experiment
March 1- 31, 2003
Costa Rica - various
areas
Use two MGLASS systems
to address the impact of deforestation on local climate.
MATR Field Deployment
October 28 - November
21, 2001
Las Vegas, NV; Tulsa,
OK; Denver, CO
MATR airborne deployment,
measurement of CO in the atmosphere.
METCRAX - Meteor
Crater Experiment
October 1 - October 31, 2006
Meteor Crater, AZ
Study of cold pools in a confined environment with 1 ISS and 7 ISFF
MIRAGE - Megacities
Impacts on Regional and Global Environments
February 15 - March 15, 2006
Veracruz, Mexico
Tracking of air pollution plume and chemical and physical transformation of
particles originating from Mexico City. Project with C-130 and SABL
MIRAGE-MEX -
Megacities Impacts on Regional and Global Environment - Mexico
March 1 - March 29, 2006
Mexico City & Veracruz Mexico
Study physical and chemical transformation of pollutantsdownwind of Mexico
City.
MOVE - MOPITT
Validation Experiment
April - May 2001
Las Vegas, NV; Tulsa,
OK
Collect validation
data for MOPITT using a variety of techniques
M-PACE - Mixed
Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment
September 27 - October 22, 2004
Prudhoe Bay, AK
To collect a focused set of observations needed to advance our understanding
of the dynamical and processes in mixed-phase arctic clouds including cloud
microphysical processes and radiative transfer through the clouds
NAME - North
American Monsoon Experiment
June 1 - August 15, 2004
Mazatlan, Mexico
Use of S-Pol, ISS and GLASS to study sources and limits of predictability
of warm season precipitation over North America
Nucleation &
Growth of Atmospheric Aerosols
July 18 - Sept.
9, 2002
Atlanta, GA
Investigation of
particle nucleation and growth in an urban environment.
OCEAN WAVES - Coupled Development of Ocean Wave Boundary Layers
February 1 - March 1, 2004
Huatulco, Mexico
Investigate ocean wave boundary layers
OSOA - Origin
and Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol
July - August 2001
Tampere, Finland
Estimate trace gas
emissions
PALS - PALS
Soil Moisture and Sea Salinity Experiment
June 1 - August
30, 2001
Des Moines, IA and
East Coast (TBD)
Testing of PALS
instrument over land and sea
PAVE - Polar Aura
Validation Experiment
January 3 - February 11, 2005
Edwards, CA & Portsmouth, NH
Validation of AURA satellite instruments
P-AVE - Polar
Aura Validation Experiment
January 3 - February 15, 2005
Lancaster, CA & Portsmouth, NH
Make solar FTIR observations from aircraft NASA DC-8
PeSPeRC -
Pennsylvania State Peroxy Radical Comparison
May 6 - June 6,
2002
State College, PA
To informally compare
atmospheric peroxy radical levels for two instruments (PerCIMS and CiTHOS).
PROPHET 01 ISS
- Program for Research on Oxidants: Photochemistry, Emissions and Transport
June - August 2001
Pellston, Michigan
To investigate the
fundamental processes that determine ozone and related oxidant levels at
this rural, forested site in northern Michigan.
RAINEX - Terrain
Induced Roter Experiment
August 15 - September 30, 2005
Tampa, FL
Study of outer rainbands in hurricanes on NRL and NOAA P-3s
REAL - REAL June
2005 Dugway Demo
June 6, 2005 - June 24, 2005
In and near Dugway, UT
NCAR will deploy the Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) at the U.S.
Army's Dugway Proving Ground
(DPG) in Utah from 6-24 June, 2005. The objective is to test REAL's new
backscatter depolarization measurement capability on biological aerosols.
REFRACTT - Refractivity Experiment for H2O Research and Collaborative Operational Technology Transfer
June 5-July 28, 2006
Front Range, Colorado
Use of SPOL, CHILL and one MGAUS to obtain very high resolution measurements of water vapor in the conectie boundary layer and to assess potential applications of those measurements to numberical weather forecasting
RENO - Reno
Basin Inversion and Educational Study 2002
February 27, 2003
Reno, NV
Investigate airflow
and stability of air masses in the Reno Basin carried out with an educational
study.
RICO - Rain in
Cumulus over the Ocean
November 15, 2004 - January 24, 2005
Antigua, Barbuda
Use of S-Pol, C-130, Dropsondes, SABL to measure precipitation processes and
to determine their importance in shallow, maritime, cumulus convection, one of
the prevalent cloud types on the planet
SAFARI 2000
January - February
2001
South Africa and
Botswana
Estimate trace gas
emissions from African savanna
SALLG - South
American Low Level Jet
November 2002 -
February 2003
Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, and Bolivia
To support the South
American Low Level Jet Experiment with the establishment of an operations
center in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
SAREFS - Saudi
Arabia Rainfall Enhancement Feasibility Study
July 1 - August 10, 2004
Abha, Saudi Arabia
Feasibility Study for Rainfall Enhancement
SBI - Western
Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions
January 2, 2002 - September 30, 2006
Chukchi and Beaufort seas - Arctic Ocean - Shipboard
Physical modifications on the Chikchu shelf and slope. Biogeochemical
modifications on the Chikchu and Beaufort shelf and slope areas.
SBI - Shelf Basin
Interactions
April 29 - June 25, 2004
Chukcki and Beaufort seas
SBI is a multi-year, interdisciplinary program to investigate the impact of
global change on physical, biological and geochemical processes over the
Chukcki and Beaufort Sea shelf basin region in the western Arctic Ocean
SHAR - Southern
Basin and Range - Yucca mountain GPs placements for study of nuclear waste
disposal - Nevada
June 1998 - 2002
SIERRA ROTORS
March 1 - April 30, 2004
Owens Valley, Independence, CA
Use of ISS/MAPR, MISS and MGLASS to improve the understanding of rotors.
SNOWFALL-ISS
- Snowfall Rate Reduction by Pollution Aerosols
January - March
2001
Steamboat Springs,
CO
Effects of pollution
aerosol loading has on snowfall rates in winter storms that are solely
orographic or have a "feeder/seeder" cloud couplet with an orographic cloud
component.
SOLVE2 - LA,
California; Kiruna, Sweden
Dec 3-20, 2002 and
Jan 5 - Feb 8, 2003
Test new instrument
for airborne O3 slant column & wavelength dependent AOD.
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