Breakout Summary Report
ARM/ASR User and PI Meeting
19 - 23 March 2018
MARCUS/MICRE Breakout
22 March 2018
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
25
Greg McFarquhar and Roj Marchand
22 March 2018
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
25
Greg McFarquhar and Roj Marchand
Breakout Description
The Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds over the Southern Oceans (MARCUS) project, involving the deployment of the AMF2 on the Australian Icebreaker Aurora Australis from October 2017 to April 2018, and the Macquarie Island Cloud Radiation Experiment (MICRE), involving deployment of a variety of ground instrumentation to Macquarie Island between March 2016 and March 2018, are currently finishing. The goal of this session is to provide updates on these projects, to discuss ongoing efforts at data quality control, to permit investigators to display some of their preliminary analysis and processing, and to discuss future planned analysis and related modeling work. A brief overview of the related NSF project, the Southern Ocean Cloud, Radiation, Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES), was also provided.Main Discussion
MICRE/MARCUS part of Southern Ocean data collection strategy (SOCRATES/CAPRICORN and others) that has just completed field phaseOverall, instruments worked exceptionally well given hostile environment
Quality control, VAP production underway
Fully QC'd products should be available by fall 2018
Welcome participation by ARM/ASR investigators in analysis of data and future modelling studies
Issues
Establishing optimum way to identify time periods during which aerosol data are contaminated by ship stackTilting/motion corrections and filtering for MWACR and other instruments (radiometers) underway