VAP Highlights for the CAPI Working Group
Authors
Laura Dian Riihimaki — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Chitra Sivaraman — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Krista Gaustad — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Timothy R. Shippert — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yan Shi — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Elaine Chapman — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jennifer M. Comstock — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rob K Newsom — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Category
ARM Infrastructure
Description
We present an update on the development of value-added products (VAPs) associated with the Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions (CAPI) working group. VAP highlights for this year include the following efforts: 1) Updates to cloud retrieval VAPs: cloud droplet number (NDROP), optical depth/effective radius from MFRSRCLDOD, and depolarization ratio in lidar VAPs; 2) Calculating Sea Surface Skin Temperature for the MAGIC campaign; 3) Updating BBHRP to be a user-run retrieval evaluation tool; 4) New MWRRETv2 VAP data in the ARM website evaluation area that calculates liquid water path and precipitable water vapor from the new 3-channel microwave radiometers; 5) Progress on boundary layer height VAPs; 6) Doppler lidar-based VAPs for calculating vertical and horizontal wind velocity profiles; 7) Creation of a new Radiative Flux Analysis VAP to calculate longwave and shortwave broadband clear sky estimates and cloud radiative effects.Lead PI
Laura Dian Riihimaki — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences