Research / Campaigns

TRACER-CUBIC

1 June 2022 - 20 September 2022

Lead Scientist: Petra Klein

Observatory: AMF

In tandem with the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), the Coastal Urban Boundary-layer Interactions with Convection (CUBIC) team will deploy three state-of-the-art mobile boundary-layer profilers in the greater Houston area. These platforms include Doppler wind lidars, thermodynamic profilers, and surface meteorological stations, and are capable of collecting continuous observations of boundary-layer wind, temperature, and humidity profiles. These observations can provide information about boundary-layer mixing, turbulence, and aerosols. These data, supplemented by mesoscale numerical weather prediction simulations, will allow us to address specific research questions about cloud formation and convection initiation in coastal, urban environments. We are particularly interested in developing new understanding of the interaction of urban circulations and sea-breezes and the processes that lead to the development of storms in densely populated coastal regions.

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Co-Investigators

Michael Coniglio

Jeremy Gibbs

Elizabeth Smith

David Turner

Timothy Wagner

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Campaign Data Sets

IOP Participant	Data Source Name	Final Data
Elizabeth Smith	Horizontal Winds Derived via a VAD Algorithm using Data from the CLAMPS1 Mobile Facility	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Vertical Velocity from Zenith-Pointing DL Data from the CLAMPS1 Mobile Facility	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Thermodynamic Profiles Derived from CLAMPS2 Mobile Facility MWR and TROPoe Algorithm	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Thermodynamic Profile Derived from CLAMPS2 Mobile Facility AERI, MWR and TROPoe Algorithm	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Thermodynamic Profiles derived from CLAMPS1 Mobile Facility AERI Data using the TROPoe Algorithm	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Horizontal Winds Derived via a VAD Algorithm using Data from the SPARC Mobile Facility	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Thermodynamic Profiles Derived from SPARC Mobile Facility AERI and TROPoe Algorithm	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Vertical Velocity from Zenith-Pointing DL Data from the SPARC Mobile Facility	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Horizontal Winds Derived via a VAD Algorithm using Data from the CLAMPS2 Mobile Facility	Order Data
Elizabeth Smith	Vertical Velocity from Zenith-Pointing DL Data from the CLAMPS2 Mobile Facility	Order Data