Overview and Highlights of the ARM Aerial Facility data during the CACTI field campaign

 
Poster PDF

Authors

Alyssa A. Matthews — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Paloma Borque — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Paul J. DeMott — Colorado State University
Lexie Goldberger — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thomas C Hill — Colorado State University
Fan Mei — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Albert Mendoza — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Danny Alan Nelson — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Matthew K Newburn — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mikhail S. Pekour — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Beat Schmid — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Arthur J Sedlacek — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Stephen R. Springston — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kaitlyn Suski — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jason Tomlinson — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Adam Varble — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alla Zelenyuk-Imre — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Category

ARM field campaigns – Results from recent ARM field campaigns

Description

The ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) Gulfstream 159 (G-1) research aircraft was deployed during the Intensive Operation Period (IOP) of the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign that took place from 1 October, 2018 to 30 April 2019 in north-central Argentina near the Sierras de Cordoba mountains. This aircraft was highly instrumented to study trace gasses, aerosol physicochemical properties, and cloud microphysics. Flying out of the nearby city of Rio Cuarto, 22 research flights were flown over the ground site, the Sierras de Cordoba, and west of the Sierras to study the pre-storm environmental conditions and the cumulus clouds that may form into storms. These measurements will be used with the wide variety of instrumentation at the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) ground site outside of Villa Yacanto that includes radars, lidars, disdrometers, and an aerosol observation system (AOS) to study initiation and growth of storms in a region which contains some of the most intense storms in the world. This poster will show the instrumentation and flight patterns of the G-1, as well as data highlights from the flights.