Research / Campaigns

BAECCSNEX

Biogenic Aerosols - Effects on Clouds and Climate: Snowfall Experiment

1 February 2014 - 30 April 2014

Lead Scientist: Dmitri Moisseev

Observatory: AMF, TMP

The snowfall measurement campaign, took place during AMF2 deployment in Finland, focusing on understanding snowfall microphysics and characterizing performance of surface based snowfall measurement instruments. This was achieved by combining triple frequency (X, Ka, W -band) radar observations of vertical structure of the precipitation, microwave radiometer observations of LWP, lidar measurements of supercooled water layers with surface based observations of snowfall rate and particle size distributions. To facilitate accurate surface measurements of snowfall properties a double fence inter-comparison reference wind protection for the weighing precipitation gauge and 2D-video disdrometer was build on site. Due to the duplication of some of instruments, namely 2D-video and weighing gauge, we were able to characterize their measurement errors as a function of wind speed thus aiming at providing a correction procedure for the other ARM sites.

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McComiskey et al. ARM Aerosol Measurement Science Group 2019 Strategic Planning Workshop Report. 2021. 10.2172/1811679.

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Biogenic Aerosols - Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC)

Co-Investigators

V. Chandrasekar

Walter Petersen

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TMP Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOS`	Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`AOSMET`	Meteorological Measurements associated with the Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`ASSIST`	Atmospheric Sounder Spectrometer for Infrared Spectral Technology	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CEILPBLHT`	Boundary-layer height data with CEIL	Browse Data
`CPC`	Condensation Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`ECMWFDIAG`	European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Diagnostic Analyses	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`HSRL`	High Spectral Resolution Lidar	Browse Data
`HTDMA`	Humidified Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer	Browse Data
`INTERPSONDE`	Interpolated Sonde	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`KASACR`	Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`KAZR`	Ka ARM Zenith Radar	Browse Data
`KAZRARSCL`	Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) product using Ka-band ARM Zenith Radars	Browse Data
`KAZRCOR`	KAZR Corrected Data	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MWACR`	Marine W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWR3C`	Microwave Radiometer, 3 Channel	Browse Data
`NEPHELOMETER`	Nephelometer	Browse Data
`OZONE`	Ozone Monitor	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`PSAP`	Particle Soot Absorption Photometer	Browse Data
`RAIN`	Rain Gauge	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SACRADVVAD`	SACR Advance Velocity Azimuth Display	Browse Data
`SACRCOR`	Scanning ARM Cloud Radar Corrections	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEPARAM`	convective parameters derived from radiosonde data	Browse Data
`TSI`	Total Sky Imager	Browse Data
`VDIS`	Video Disdrometer	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WACRARSCL`	W-band Cloud Radar Active Remote Sensing of Cloud	Browse Data
`XSACR`	X-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data