Jian-Wen Bao Christopher W. Fairall Sara A. Michelson Laura Bianco
CalWater 2015 – NOAA P-3 - University of California, San...
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Aircra>: NOAA WP-‐3D N43RF Flight hours: 80 (including transit) Science Flights: 15 Jan – 12 Feb 2015 Base of OperaPons: McClellan Airfield Nominal Range: 3000 nmi Dropsondes: 150
P-3 Operations
NOAA$HMT$Network$$
Wind$Profilers,$Radars,$GPS$Met$Sierra$Nevada$and$Coastal$Ranges$(white$bars)$
Hawaii$ SSM/I%satellite%observa0ons%of%IWV%showing%a%strong%atmospheric%river%on%12%Dec%2010%(from&Ralph&and&De0nger&BAMS&2012)&
CalWater$2$/$ACAPEX$ObservaFonal$Strategy$
Jan$–$Mar$2015$
Remote$aerosol$plume$(schemaFc)$
20°N$
30°N$
40°N$
50°N$
160°W$ 150°W$ 140°W$ 130°W$
50N
40N
30N
20N
160W 150W 140W 130W
7654321IWV (g cm-2)
40N
30N
20N160W 150W 140W 130W 120W
12 December 2010
18 December 2010
NOAA$WPU3D$- Aerosols & Trace Gas Instruments - Cloud Probes - Dropsondes - Precipitation & Cloud Radar $
NOAA$GUIV$and$NASA$Global$Hawk$U Dropsondes$U PrecipitaFon$&$Cloud$Radar$
Courtesy of F. M. Ralph, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
DOE$GU1$$
U$$Aerosols$U$$Microphysics$
Ship$$
U$$DOE$AMF2$U$$Small$UAS$U$$AirUsea$fluxes$U$$PrecipitaFon$esFmates$Science Flights
-‐ OperaPons offshore coordinated with Ron Brown and G-‐IV -‐ OperaPons onshore coordinated with G-‐1?
Meteorology and Microphysics Payload Dropsondes (AOC) Tail Doppler Radar/SFMR (AOC) W-‐Band Radar (Fairall) WSRA (ProSensing) Cloud Probes (AOC) AXBTs (NRL/AOC)
P-3 Measurements and Payload
W-Band Cloud Radar
Station C3X
TDL H2O
Station 2
Station 3
Station 7WSRA?
Station 5 Dropsondes
N43RF Layout – CalWater 2015
Station 4
CloudProbes
Station 8
Station 6W-Band RadarStation 5
Dropsondes
Station C3X
TDL H2O
Station 2
Station 3
Station 7WSRA?
Station 5 Dropsondes
N43RF Layout – CalWater 2015
Station 4
CloudProbes
Station 8
Station 6W-Band RadarStation 5
Dropsondes
P-‐3 Range ~3000 nmi 1 deg lon = 50 nmi
MCCRB
1. Ron Brown coordina8on – Atmospheric context and ocean state survey 2. Coastal and Orographic PrecipitaPon
3. Offshore AR Structure
CalWater 2015 Theater of Opera8ons – Flight Modules
GOES infrared image of extratropical cyclone on 24 Feb 2014 prior to landfall along the northern CA coast
L
500 nmi RB
Please ignore the red trace – the flight track for the G-‐IV when it flew this storm
128W
38N
Ron Brown at 38N, 128W
1. Ron Brown Coordina8on
McClellanAirfield
§ Provides atmospheric context in ship environment with dropsondes and radar
§ Surveys ocean state with AXBTs § Lawnmower paaern near RB:
Dropsondes and AXBTs deployed at FL150-‐FL200 Cloud microphysics profiling near RB
1.5 hr
Lawnmower paVern 2.5 -‐ 3 hr