Where: Table Mountain, Boulder, Colorado
When: Summer 2018
The Cloud Properties Experiment (CPEX) was conducted at the Table Mountain Facility beginning in the summer 2018. This research site is located at 40.125°N and 105.240°W.
The primary purpose of this experiment was to evaluate instrumentation for cloud properties, especially those that may be useful additions to the SURFRAD (Surface Radiation) Network, and secondly to augment a data set for a cloud forecasting study. This campaign collected data, but future funding would be required and explored for data analysis.
Participants and instrumentation for this activity are:
| Organization | Participants | Instruments | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA ESRL GMD | Chuck Long, Kathy Lantz, Allison McComiskey, Gary Hodges, Patrick Disterhoft | 3 RadSys Systems (downwelling SW, DNI, DHI, LW, T, RH, P) CL-51 Ceilometer SURFRAD site |
Cloud base height (CBH), AOD, upwelling and downwelling LW, SW, DNI, DHI, RadFlux Products (clear-sky LW, SW, direct and diffuse radiation, Cloud Fraction, etc.) |
| NOAA ESRL CSD | Aditya Choukulkar, Tim Bonin, Sunil Baidar, Alan Brewer | Scanning Doppler Lidar | Wind Profiles, Boundary Layer Height, Vertical Velocity Variance, Cloud Base Height, Cloud Fraction |
| NOAA ESRL PSD | Jim Wilczak, Laura Bianco | Microwave Radiometer | LWP, Temperature profiles, water vapor density, RH |
| ReUniWatt, Inc | Laurent Sauvage, Marion LaFuma | Sky Insight - IR Sky Imager | Day and night Cloud Fraction, Cloud base height (CBH), Cloud-type, Irradiance |
| Aerodyne Research, Inc | TWST (Three-Waveband Spectrally-agile Technique) | Cloud Optical Depth |