An Overview of the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER)
Authors
Karen Lee Johnson — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Michael Jensen — Brookhaven National Laboratory *
Scott Smith — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Greg McFarquhar — University of Oklahoma
Pavlos Kollias — Stony Brook University
Jian Wang — Washington University in St. Louis
Don R. Collins — University of California, Riverside
Manvendra K. Dubey — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Virendra Prakash Ghate — Argonne National Laboratory
Edward Luke — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gijs de Boer — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Sarah D. Brooks — Texas A&M University
Sue van den Heever — Colorado State University
Jiwen Fan — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Arthur J Sedlacek — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scott Matthew Collis — Argonne National Laboratory
Scott Giangrande — Brookhaven National Laboratory
James N. Smith — University of California, Irvine
Qi Zhang — University of California, Davis
Adam Varble — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Markus D Petters — University of California, Riverside
Rajan K Chakrabarty — Washington University in St. Louis
Robert Jackson — Argonne National Laboratory
V. Chandrasekar — Colorado State University
Chongai Kuang — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Allison C Aiken — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Adam Theisen — Argonne National Laboratory
Rebecca Jacobs Sheesley — Baylor University
Fan Mei — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Don Conlee — Texas A&M University
Joseph Galewsky — University of New Mexico
Philip Stier — University of Oxford
Sean Crowell — University of Oklahoma
Chris Cappa — University of California, Davis
Toshihisa Matsui — Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at University of Maryland
Petra Klein — University of Oklahoma - School of Meteorology
Mariko Oue — Stony Brook University
Runjun Li — Texas A&M University
Daniel Rosenfeld — The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sascha Usenko — Baylor University
Heath H Powers — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Iosif Andrei Lindenmaier — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Brian Argrow — University of Colorado
Matthew Kumjian — Pennsylvania State University
Vagner Melo de Castro — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Katia Lamer — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Andrew Michael Dzambo — CIWRO / University of Oklahoma - Norman
Swarup China — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rusen Oktem — University of California, Berkeley
Marcus van Lier-Walqui — Columbia University
Alyssa A. Matthews — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David Romps — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Darielle Dexheimer — Sandia National Laboratories
Nathan Wales — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Timothy Wagner — University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen Saleeby — Colorado State University
Jeffrey Snyder — NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory
Anita Rapp — Texas A&M University
Peter Thomas Argay — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Die Wang — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Aifang Zhou — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jonathan Hamilton — University of Colorado Boulder
Maria Anna Anna Zawadowicz — Brookhaven National Laboratory
James Flynn — University of Houston
Timothy Logan — Texas A&M University
Jungmin Park — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Troy Thornberry — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Elizabeth Asher — NOAA ESRL CSD / University of Colorado CIRES
Sabin Kasparoglu — North Carolina State University
Chris John Nowotarski — Texas A&M University
David Oaks — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hannah Ransom — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thomas Surleta — Argonne National Laboratory
Maxwell Grover — Argonne National Laboratory
Ya-Chien Feng — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Eric Carl Bruning — Texas Tech University
John Sullivan — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Elizabeth PillarLittle — University of Oklahoma
Jorge E Gonzalez — University at Albany, State University of New York
Lance Wood — NOAA National Weather Service
Laura Margaret Judd — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Doug Boyer — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Tim Wendler — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ashish Singh — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Michael Howard Young — The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Joseph Walter — St. Edward's University
Nicholas Meskhidze — North Carolina State University
Aryeh Jacob Drager — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jiaoshi Zhang — Washington University in St. Louis
Yue Zhang — Texas A&M University
Erik Nielsen — Texas A&M University
Alexander Kotsakis — University of Maryland, College Park
Michael Rhodes — University of Colorado
Milind Sharma — Texas A&M University
Ryan Farley — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Xianda Gong — Washington University in St. Louis
Brian Butterworth — University of Colorado Boulder
Daniel Bahrt — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Xuanlin Du — University of California, Riverside
Zihan Zhu — University of California, Riverside
Prathap Ramamurthy — City College of New York
Olga L Mayol Bracero — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Travis Griggs — University of Houston
Harold Gamarro — City College of New York
Siddhant Gupta — Argonne National Laboratory
Mark Spychala — Argonne National Laboratory
Jing Li — Washington University in St. Louis
Rachael Dal Porto — University of California, Davis
Md Kalimur Rahman — City College of New York
Ana Gabriela Bloom — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Montana Etten-Bohm — Texas A&M University
Tamanna Subba — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Madison Ritsch — University of Colorado Boulder
Justin Buchli — Iowa State University
Ceu Gomez-Faulk — University of Colorado Boulder
Radiance Calmer — University of Colorado Boulder
Angelina Miller — University of Colorado Boulder
Katherine Lenninger — NOAA National Weather Service
Category
ARM field campaigns – Results from recent ARM field campaigns
Description
Aerosol-cloud interactions remain one of the largest uncertainties in our understanding of the climate system and our predictive capability of future climate states. Among these processes, the magnitude and relative importance of the interactions among aerosols and deep convective cloud dynamics and microphysics remain a topic of active research and debate. Towards collecting a comprehensive dataset to address these uncertainties, the Tracing Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) took place from 01 October 2021 through 30 September 2022, with an intensive operational period (IOP) during June through September 2022 in the southeast Texas region near Houston, TX. TRACER included the deployment of the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) at La Porte, TX near the Houston ship channel, a region that often experiences heavy aerosol loading from both natural and anthropogenic sources. During the IOP an ancillary site was added in Guy, TX a rural location approximately 80 km to the south-southwest of the AMF1 site. The C-band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (CSAPR) was deployed between these sites using newly developed software for automated tracking of convective cells. Additional instrumentation was deployed during the IOP including a tethered balloon system, mobile instrumented trucks, uncrewed aerial vehicles, and advanced aerosol instrumentation. Interagency partner campaigns with contributions from NSF, NASA, TCEQ and NOAA further filled observational gaps and expanded the science targets including coastal and urban meteorology and air quality. Here we present an overview of the TRACER deployment including a description of the platforms, summary of some of the measurements collected and identification of potential data epochs and case study targets.
Lead PI
Michael Jensen — Brookhaven National Laboratory