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Field Campaigns
Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEx)
MACPEx was a NASA field campaign that took place in April, 2011 at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. The goal of the campaign was to investigate cirrus cloud properties and the processes that affect their impact on radiation. I was on location for a week, during which they had four research flights. Pictured above is me with the WB-57 aircraft in the hanger (left) and on the tarmac (right). While I was there I performed some preliminary data analysis and quality control, looking at the size distribution data that was collected.
Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX)
STORMVEX was an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) field campaign that took place December 2010-April 2011. The second ARM mobile facility (AMF2) was deployed to Steamboat Springs, CO, in conjunction with the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), which is a mountaintop cloud and aerosol research facility. The goal of the campaign was to study mixed phase clouds by collecting in situ measurements at SPL and collocated remote sensing measurements from the AMF2 instruments situated at lower elevations. I was on site for 3.5 weeks, during which I spent a lot of my time at SPL, de-riming instruments and keeping a log of daily conditions and issues.
Top left: The roof of Storm Peak Lab and some of the instruments including the cloud and precipitation imaging probes, sonic anemometer, Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) and Met Tower. Bottom Left: Me at the Thunderhead site, which contained the Scanning W-band Cloud Radar (SWACR), Micropulse Lidar (MPL) and Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR). Right: Me launching a weather balloon at the Valley Floor site.