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BTFE

Baltimore Turfgrass Field Experiment

1 December 2024 - 31 December 2025

Lead Scientist: Ben Ahlswede

Observatory: AMF (ARM Mobile Facility 1) - CRG

We would like to characterize the energetic and trace gas fluxes from turfgrass in Baltimore. This campaign will improve our understanding of urban vegetation fluxes and their role in atmospheric proceses from urban landscapes. Turfgrass is the dominant vegetation type in Baltimore and other urban areas, but is largely ignored in weather and Earth system models.

We will erect a small eddy covariance system to measure the fluxes of carbon, water, and energy from the turfgrass field at AMF1. The flux tower will measure fluxes from the surface approximately 10 meters away from the tower. Data are collected continuously at 10 Hz and are averaged up to 30-minute intervals. These are direct measurments of energy and trace gas fluxes, and can be directly compared to model outputs.

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Co-Investigators

Kenneth Davis

Natasha Miles

Scott Richardson

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CRG Data Sources

Name	Full Name	Browse Data
`ACSM`	Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor	Browse Data
`ACSMCDCE`	ACSM, corrected for composition-dependent collection efficiency	Browse Data
`AERI`	Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer	Browse Data
`AERINF`	AERI Noise Filtered	Browse Data
`AETH`	Aethalometer	Browse Data
`AOD-MFRSR`	Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) derived from MFRSR measurements	Browse Data
`AOP`	Aerosol Optical Properties	Browse Data
`AOS`	Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`AOSMET`	Meteorological Measurements associated with the Aerosol Observing System	Browse Data
`APS`	Aerodynamic Particle Sizer	Browse Data
`ARMTRAJ`	Airmass trajectories to support studies using ARM data	Browse Data
`ARMTRAJ-AIR`	Airmass trajectories to support studies using ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) data.	Browse Data
`ASI`	All Sky Imager	Browse Data
`CAMSITE`	camera that monitors a site area	Browse Data
`CCN`	Cloud Condensation Nuclei Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CCNKAPPA`	CCN Counter derived hygroscopicity parameter kappa	Browse Data
`CEIL`	Ceilometer	Browse Data
`CEILPBLHT`	Boundary-layer height data with CEIL	Browse Data
`CLDTYPE`	Cloud Type Classification	Browse Data
`CLOUDRADARCOR`	Cloud Radar (KAZR, KAZR2, or MWACR) Corrected VAP	Browse Data
`CO-ANALYZER`	Carbon Monoxide Analyzer	Browse Data
`CPC`	Condensation Particle Counter	Browse Data
`CSPHOT`	Sunphotometer	Browse Data
`DL`	Doppler Lidar	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WIND`	Doppler Lidar Wind	Browse Data
`DLPROF-WSTATS`	Doppler Lidar Vertical Velocity Statistics	Browse Data
`ECOR`	Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement System	Browse Data
`GNDRAD`	Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`HTDMA`	Humidified Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer	Browse Data
`INS`	Ice Nucleation Spectrometer for INP measurement	Browse Data
`INS-AIR`	Ice Nucleation Spectrometer for INP measurements aboard aircraft	Browse Data
`INTERPSONDE`	Interpolated Sonde	Browse Data
`IRT`	Infrared Thermometer	Browse Data
`KAZR`	Ka ARM Zenith Radar	Browse Data
`KAZRARSCL`	Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (ARSCL) product using Ka-band ARM Zenith Radars	Browse Data
`LDIS`	Laser Disdrometer	Browse Data
`LDQUANTS`	Laser Disdrometer Quantities	Browse Data
`MAWS`	Automatic Weather Station	Browse Data
`MERGEDSMPSAPS`	merged size distribution from SMPS and APS	Browse Data
`MET`	Surface Meteorological Instrumentation	Browse Data
`METWXT`	WXT520/530 Meteorological Instrument System	Browse Data
`MFR`	Multifilter Radiometer	Browse Data
`MFRSR`	Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer	Browse Data
`MONITORINST`	sensors for providing instrument system monitoring	Browse Data
`MPL`	Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MPLCMASK`	Cloud mask from Micropulse Lidar	Browse Data
`MWR`	Microwave Radiometer	Browse Data
`MWR3C`	Microwave Radiometer, 3 Channel	Browse Data
`MWRRET`	MWR Retrievals	Browse Data
`MWRRETV2`	MWR Retrievals with MWRRET Version 2	Browse Data
`NEPHELOMETER`	Nephelometer	Browse Data
`NFOV`	Narrow Field of View Zenith Radiometer	Browse Data
`NOX`	Nitrogen Oxides Monitor	Browse Data
`OPC`	Optical Particle Counter	Browse Data
`OZONE`	Ozone Monitor	Browse Data
`PBLHT`	Planetary Boundary Layer Height	Browse Data
`POPS`	portable or printed optical particle spectrometer	Browse Data
`PSAP`	Particle Soot Absorption Photometer	Browse Data
`RWP`	Radar Wind Profiler	Browse Data
`SEBS`	Surface Energy Balance System	Browse Data
`SIRS`	Solar and Infrared Radiation Station for Downwelling and Upwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SKYRAD`	Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation	Browse Data
`SMPS`	Scanning mobility particle sizer	Browse Data
`SO2`	Sulfur Dioxide Monitor	Browse Data
`SONDE`	Balloon-Borne Sounding System	Browse Data
`SONDEGRID`	Gridded Sonde VAP Product	Browse Data
`SONDEPARAM`	convective parameters derived from radiosonde data	Browse Data
`SP2`	Single Particle Soot Photometer	Browse Data
`SYNOPWEAREG`	Synoptic Weather Regime Classification VAP products	Browse Data
`TBSCPC`	Condensation Particle Counter aboard Tethered Balloon System	Browse Data
`TBSDTS`	Distributed Temperature Sensing aboard Tethered Balloon System	Browse Data
`TBSGROUND`	Tethered Balloon System Ground Measurement	Browse Data
`TBSMERGED`	Tethered Balloon System (TBS) Merged Data Product	Browse Data
`TBSMET`	Meteorological Instrumentation aboard TBS	Browse Data
`TBSPOPS`	Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer aboard Tethered Balloon System	Browse Data
`TBSWIND`	Anemometers aboard Tethered Balloon System	Browse Data
`THERMOCLDPHASE`	Thermodynamic Cloud Phase	Browse Data
`TROPOE`	Tropospheric Optimal Estimation Retrieval	Browse Data
`UHSAS`	Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer	Browse Data
`VDIS`	Video Disdrometer	Browse Data
`VDISQUANTS`	Video Disdrometer VAP	Browse Data
`VISST`	Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm	Browse Data
`WB`	Weighing Bucket Precipitation Gauge	Browse Data