CLAPMBL

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Clouds, Aerosol and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL)

1 May 2009 - 31 December 2009

Lead Scientist: Robert Wood

Observatory: amf, grw

The ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) was deployed in the Azores to support the Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) field campaign. The AMF was located on Graciosa Island in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago located about 3,900 kilometers from the east coast of North America. The Azores are ideally located to sample the transition from the overcast stratocumulus regime in the spring to the broken trade cumulus regime in the summer. Led by principal investigator Robert Wood, scientists involved in the campaign used data from the AMF to study processes controlling the radiative properties and microphysics of marine boundary layer clouds, a high-priority science question.

Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Graciosa Island is ideal for sampling the transition from an overcast stratocumulus regime in the spring to the broken trade cumulus regime in the summer.

Co-Investigators

Thomas Ackerman	Hugh Coe	Rene Garreaud
Bruce Albrecht	Chris Fairall	Bjorn Stevens
Christopher Bretherton	Graham Feingold	David Turner

Timeline

Child Campaign

Related Publications

2021

Lee H, A Fridlind, and A Ackerman. 2021. "An evaluation of size-resolved cloud microphysics scheme numerics for use with radar observations Part II: Condensation and evaporation." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(1), 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0213.1.

2020

Wu P, X Dong, and B Xi. 2020. "A Climatology of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud and Drizzle Properties Derived from Ground-Based Observations over the Azores." Journal of Climate, 33(23), 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0272.1.

Joshil S, V Chandrasekar, J Chiu, and Y Blanchard. 2020. "Separating cloud and drizzle signals in radar Doppler spectra using a parametric time domain method." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37(9), 10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0061.1.

Zheng Y, D Rosenfeld, and Z Li. 2020. "A more general paradigm for understanding the decoupling of stratocumulus‐topped boundary layers: the importance of horizontal temperature advection." Geophysical Research Letters, 47(14), e2020GL087697, 10.1029/2020GL087697.
Research Highlight

Naud C, J Booth, K Lamer, R Marchand, A Protat, and G McFarquhar. 2020. "On The Relationship Between The Marine Cold Air Outbreak M Parameter And Low‐Level Cloud Heights In The Midlatitudes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(13), e2020JD032465, 10.1029/2020JD032465.
Research Highlight

Muradyan P and R Coulter. 2020. Radar Wind Profiler (RWP) and Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) Instrument Handbook. Ed. by Robert Stafford, U.S. Department of Energy. DOE/SC-ARM/TR-044. 10.2172/1020560.

2019

Burgos M, E Andrews, G Titos, L Alados-Arboledas, U Baltensperger, D Day, A Jefferson, N Kalivitis, N Mihalopoulos, J Sherman, J Sun, E Weingartner, and P Zieger. 2019. "A global view on the effect of water uptake on aerosol particle light scattering." Scientific Data, 6(1), 10.1038/s41597-019-0158-7.

Lee H, A Fridlind, and A Ackerman. 2019. "An evaluation of size-resolved cloud microphysics scheme numerics for use with radar observations Part I: Collision-coalescence." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(1), 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0174.1.
Research Highlight

2018

Borque P, E Luke, P Kollias, and F Yang. 2018. "Relationship Between Turbulence and Drizzle in Continental and Marine Low Stratiform Clouds." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75(12), 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0060.1.
Research Highlight

Mace G and A Protat. 2018. "Clouds over the Southern Ocean as Observed from The RV Investigator during CAPRICORN. Part 1: Cloud Occurrence and Phase Partitioning." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57(8), 10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0194.1.

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Campaign Data Sets

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IOP Participant	Data Source Name	Final Data
Connor Flynn	Aerosol Optical Depth- Derived	Order Data
Detlev Helmig	aethalometer	Order Data
Gary Hodges	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer- T0 Site	Order Data
Mark Miller	Shortwave Radiation	Order Data

GRW Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AERINF`	AERI Noise Filtered	Browse Data
`AIP`	Aerosol Intensive Properties	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOS`	Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`AOSCCNAVG`	Aerosol Observing System (AOS): cloud condensation nuclei data, averaged	Browse Data
`CAMSITE`	camera that monitors a site area	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`ECMWFDIAG`	European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Diagnostic Analyses	Browse Data
`ECOR`	Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`MERGESONDE`	Merged Sounding	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MFRSRCLDOD`	Cloud Optical Properties from MFRSR Using Min Algorithm	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLAVG`	MPL: data averaged to fixed 30 second interval, e.g. for polarized data	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWRHF`	Microwave Radiometer - High Frequency	Browse Data
`MWRP`	Microwave Radiometer Profiler	Browse Data
`MWRRET`	MWR Retrievals	Browse Data
`NCEPGFS`	National Centers for Environment Prediction Global Forecast System	Browse Data
`NDROP`	Droplet number concentration	Browse Data
`NFOV`	Narrow Field of View Zenith Radiometer	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`QCECOR`	Quality Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement	Browse Data
`QCRAD`	Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data	Browse Data
`RADFLUXANAL`	Radiative Flux Analysis	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEADJUST`	Sonde Adjust	Browse Data
`SWACR`	W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar, mounted to scan	Browse Data
`TSI`	Total Sky Imager	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WACR`	W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar	Browse Data
`WACRARSCL`	W-band Cloud Radar Active Remote Sensing of Cloud	Browse Data