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1 Recent Examples of NSFfunded Field Campaigns Jim Moore - Project Manager (NCAR EOL)

2 Field Campaigns: Where Hypotheses & Observations Meet Recent Examples HIPPO - global operations DC3 - US regional operations DYNAMO - international operations PCAPS - US local operations Concordiasi - Antarctic operations CWEX11 - educational deployment

3 HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) Category: Complex/Large Global Operations

4 Multi-year aircraft (NSF/NCAR GV) program from 2009 to 2011 Ambitious global sampling campaign to study latitudinal as well as vertical distribution of greenhouse gases across five different seasons Transects spanned Pacific Basin from 85ºN to 67ºS Vertical profiles approximately every 2.2º latitude

5 Seasonal variations of CO2 from HIPPO 1-5 Seasonal variations of O3 from HIPPO 1-3

6 Operational Highlights Five 3-week campaigns over 3 years No fixed deployment base Minimal facility support Minimal instrumentation support Total # of flight hours: Total # of flights: 64 Total distance traveled: 171,000 miles Total # of vertical profiles: 461

7 Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Campaign (DC3) Category: Complex/Large Multi-facility operations spread across several deployment sites requiring day-to-day coordination

8 Six-week field campaign in 2012 Joint NSF/NASA/NOAA/DLR campaign including 21 universities Main operations base: Salina, KS Objective 1: to quantify and characterize the convection and convective transport within the first few hours of active convection, investigating storm dynamics and physics, lightning and its production of nitrogen oxides, cloud hydrometeor effects and chemistry in the anvil Objective 2: to quantify the changes in chemistry and composition of active convection, focusing on hours after convection and the seasonal transition of the chemical composition of the upper troposphere

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10 Combined NSF/NCAR GV and NASA DC-8 observations of NO, CO and O 3 in DC3 Oklahoma thunderstorm

11 Operational Highlights OK/TX convection CO convection AL convection MCS studies Downwind flights UT survey flights Source characterization

12 Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Category: Complex/Large International, remote, long-term operations

13 Field campaign from October 2011 to March 2012 Joint NSF/NOAA/DOE/ONR campaign funded by 12 countries Main operations area: Indian Ocean with bases on Maldives, Diego Garcia, RV Revelle Supersite on Addu Atoll with 7 radar frequencies; 4 ships; 2 aircraft; more than 12,000 soundings Objective: to improve understanding of the MJO and capability of forecasting the event

14 Operational Highlights

15 MJO Events!

16 Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study Category: Simple/Small Domestic, limited number of systems, small PI team

17 Nine-week field campaign from December 2010 to February 2011 Location: Salt Lake basin, Utah Objective: to study the formation, maintenance and destruction of persistent mid-winter temperatures inversions (cold air pools) that form in the Salt Lake basin and determine the consequences on air pollution transport and diffusion in urban basins

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20 Concordiasi Category: Simple/Small.sort of Coordinated through NSF Office of Polar Programs

21 Joint US/French collaboration McMurdo, Antarctica / August to November 2010 Objective: to improve meteorological, dynamical and chemical analysis and forecast of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which are data sparse Launch of 13 stratospheric balloons Flight level altitude km Dropsondes released for up to 49 days 648 sounding profiles

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23 Transit High Plateau Coast Coast

24 Crop/Wind-energy EXperiment (CWEX-11) Category: Educational

25 Educational campaign from 22 June to 16 August 2011 Joint with Iowa State University NSF REU Wind Energy Science, Engineering and Policy (WESE) & DOE Ames Laboratory Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Location: utility-scale wind farm in central Iowa Use of ISFS flux towers Objective 1: demonstrate techniques of deploying and maintaining a surface flux station & interpreting flux data Objective 2: collect data for undergraduate senior theses, MS theses and Ph.D. dissertations

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27 Take Home Messages Operations around the world Multi-disciplinary facilities LAOF partner organizations are here to help (planning, operations and special support) Request process

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