Penn. State Department of Meteorology 
ABL Group IHOP Page

13 May - 25 June 2002

LIDAR PAGE

PBL-DEPTH DATA

CASE SUMMARY

• Ground-Based High-Precision CO₂ data (Sites 1 and 8)
              CONTACTS:  Scott Richardson < srichardson@psu.edu >
                                      Ankur Desai        < adesai@essc.psu.edu >
  

• Ground-Based data from ARM-SGP site
               CONTACTS:  Margaret Torn (LBNL) < mstorn@lbl.gov >
                                       Scott Richardson           < srichardson@psu.edu >

• Ponca3 Aircraft Observations
              CONTACT:   Mike Jensen (CIRES) < mike@cires.colorado.edu >
  

• Moody, TX Tall Tower Observations
               CONTACT:   Peter Bakwin (NOAA/CMDL) < Peter.Bakwin@noaa.gov >
  

IHOP Photos
 
RESOURCES

•   ALEXI surface flux estimates
•   NCAR Integrated Surface Flux Facility flux tower data (in real time)
•  University of Wyoming King Air data
•  Our IHOP goals (word document)
•  Some of our research hypotheses for IHOP are built on results obtained from the Southern Great Plains 1997 experiment.  During this smaller-scale version of IHOP, we found within a 2-day case study that: 1.) remotely-sensed surface soil moisture correlated spatially to tower-measured surface energy flux (Bowen ratio) more than remotely-sensed vegetation indices and 2.) mid-day surface fluxes (modeled with tower fluxes and surface soil moisture) explained mesoscale (10s-100s of km) variations in boundary layer depth as observed by lidar.  Click here to view a PDF of the draft manuscript of Desai et al., Surface energy flux distribution and convective boundary layer development in the Southern Great Plains 1997 experiment.

National Science Foundation.

This page is maintained by Ken Craig < kcraig@met.psu.edu > and Ankur Desai < adesai@met.psu.edu >
Revised : 03/15/05.