Project Phoenix : the September 1978 field operation.
Series: Report (NOAA/NCAR Boulder Atmospheric Observatory ; no. 1 ; Boulder, CO : NCAR Publications Office, 1979Description: xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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1. Project PHOENIX: Background and Introduction / W. H. Hooke, P. H. Hildebrand, and R. A. Kropfli -- 2. BAO Site, Tower Instrumentation, and PHOENIX Operations / J. C. Kaimal and D. E. Wolfe -- 3. PHOENIX Multiple-Doppler Radar Operations / R. A. Kropfli -- 4. PHOENIX Operations of the NCAR Queen Air Research Aircraft / P. H. Hildebrand -- 5. Microwave Radiometer Studies in PHOENIX / M. T. Decker -- 6. FM-CW Radar Operations During PHOENIX / R. B. Chadwick and K. P. Moran -- 7. TPQ-11 (8mm) Radar Operations During PHOENIX / F. Pasqualucci -- 8. Lidar and Knollenberg Probe Operations During PHOENIX / N. L. Abshire and G. M. Lerfald -- 9. Optical Systems Measuring Surface-Level Convergence During PHOENIX / R. B. Fritz and T.-I. Wang -- 10. Portable Automated Mesonet (PAM) Observations During PHOENIX / P. H. Hildebrand -- 11. The PHOENIX Rawinsonde Data / P. H. Hildebrand and R. B. McBeth -- 12. PHOENIX Lagrangian Turbulence Observations Using Pibals and Tetroons / S. R. Hanna -- 13. Microbarograph Observations During PHOENIX / A. J. Bedard, Jr., and C. Ramzy -- 14. Acoustic Echo Sounder Operations During PHOENIX / W. D. Neff and E. H. Brown -- 15. A Brief Summary of Weather Conditions During PHOENIX / D. E. Wolfe -- 16. PHOENIX Summary Logs / W. H. Hooke, P. H. Hildebrand, and R. A. Kropfli -- 17. Interactive Access to the BAO Data / R. S. Lawrence and M. H. Ackley.
The Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) is a unique national facility operated jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) . The BAO, located 25 km east of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado, consists of a 300-m instrumented meteorological tower, an array of ground-based remote and immersion sensing instruments, and a system for acquiring and archiving data. The facility is used for evaluating and testing meteorological instruments including remote sensors and for the study of boundary-layer dynamics, air pollution chemistry, and relationships between these areas of science and larger-scale meteorology.
This report describes the instruments tested and compared and equipment used during Project PHOENIX, a major field study of the planetary boundary layer. The data-gathering systems evaluated include multiple-Doppler radar, microwave radiometer, FM-CW radar, TPQ11 radar, lidar, optical wind sensors, the Portable Automated Mesonet (PAM) , rawinsonde, microbarograph , acoustic sounders, balloons, aircraft, and the 300-m BAO tower. Also provided are a discussion of the project's background and planning, a description of the synoptic weather situation during the experiment, instructions for access to the data, and a daily summary log of PHOENIX operations.