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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

 
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Authors

Peter J. Lamb — University of Oklahoma
Edward Zipser — University of Utah
Anthony D. Del Genio — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Andrew Heymsfield — National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Michael Jensen — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gerald Heymsfield — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Brad W. Orr — No Affiliation
Pavlos Kollias — Stony Brook University
Steven A Rutledge — Colorado State University
Daniel Dean Hartsock — University of Oklahoma
Arthur Hou — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott Giangrande — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mathew R. Schwaller — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Walter A. Petersen — NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Nitin Bharadwaj — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Category

Dynamics/Vertical Motion

Description

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) is a joint field campaign by the DOE ARM Climate Research Facility and NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission set to take place April 22–June 6, 2011, at the Southern Great Plains Research Facility in Oklahoma. MC3E will use a multiscale, multiplatform measurement strategy of surface-based remote sensing, aircraft in situ, and satellite observations to provide the most complete characterization of convective cloud systems, precipitation, and the environment that has ever been obtained, providing constraints for model cumulus parameterizations and space-based rainfall retrieval algorithms over land. This campaign will highly leverage the assets available at the ARM Southern Great Plains facility, especially the new scanning radar systems purchased as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In addition to these new and existing ARM permanent instruments, two scanning radar systems (Ka/Ku and S-band), vertically pointing profiler systems (S-band, UHF), an array of disdrometer systems, and a five-station radiosonde array will be deployed. This poster will present a scientific overview, the expected instrumentation, and an overview of final preparations for this field campaign.

Supporting URL

http://www.arm.gov/campaigns/sgp2011midlatcloud