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ISS: Integrated Sounding System for DYNAMO National Center for Atmospheric Research Earth Observing Laboratory. Operating Atmospheric Research Facilities for the U.S. National Science Foundation. William Brown Presented by Jim Moore CINDY Workshop Yokohama Oct 2010. ISS.
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ISS: Integrated Sounding Systemfor DYNAMONational Center for Atmospheric ResearchEarth Observing Laboratory Operating Atmospheric Research Facilities for the U.S. National Science Foundation William Brown Presented by Jim Moore CINDY Workshop Yokohama Oct 2010
ISS • Integrated Sounding System: • 915 MHz wind profiler radar • Boundary Layer and Precip • RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System • GAUS Radiosondes • GPS Advanced Upper-Air Sounding • Vaisala RS-92 • Enhanced surface meteorology • 10-m tower • Solar radiation • Lab trailer: integrate measurements, communications
ISS Deployments 40+ Deployments all over the world TOGA-Coare, Fable, Flatlands, CASES, Fastex,Hong Kong, Labex, SCMS, ACE, LakeIce, Nauru99, Taiwan, TOCS, Transitions, Prophet, VTMX, IHOP, Improve2, Reno, NAME, ISPA, SRP, T-REX, Metcrax, Climode, AHATS, CPS, PLOWS, PCAPS
Met. Tower 915 MHz Wind Profiler ISS Trailer RASS Helium Solar sensors Rain Gauge AHATS California Land based ISS • Diego Garcia Site • Also will have: • GPS Water Vapor • Ceilometer • Rain isotope analyzer
R/V Knorr Ship-board ISS Soundings Wind Profiler
Ship-board Wind Profiler Gyroscopically stabilized platform ISS on board the R/V Mirai for Nauru99
CLIMODE Gulf Stream Boundary Layer BL Depth RASS Profiler deployed on R/V Knorr in N. Atlantic Boundary Layer response to Gulf Stream heating SST
DYNAMO2 ISS ISS on R/V Revelle ~ 640 sondes each site ISS on Diego Garcia Diego Garcia : SOP (1 Oct - 24 Nov) IOP (25 Nov - 15 Jan) R/V Revelle : Mooring IOP-1 IOP-2 IOP-3 Mooring Rec Darwin Cochin Cochin Cochin Cochin Port Louis Sondes/day: 2 2 8 8 4