VAP : Micropulse Lidar (MPL)
Instrument Categories
Cloud Properties
Output Products
- mplcbh1scott : MPL: cloud base heights using the Scott/Spinhirne algorithm
- mplcmask1cloth : MPL: cloud mask using the first Clothiaux, et al algorithm
- mplnor1camp : MPL: backscatter profiles normalized and cloud detection routine applied.
- mplpolavg : Micropulse Lidar polarized (MPLPOL) data averaged to fixed 30 second interval
- mplsmask1cloth : MPL: "significance" mask using the first Clothiaux, et al algorithm
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Aerosol extinction
- Backscattered radiation
- Cloud fraction
- Cloud base height
- Cloud top height
- Radar polarization
Locations
- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GAN)
- Gan Airport, Gan Island, Maldives (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (SBS)
- Steamboat Springs CO, Thunderhead Lodge (S1)
Contact(s)
Annette Koontz
Developer
(509) 375-3609
annette.koontz@pnnl.gov
Connor Flynn
Translator
(509) 375-2041
connor.flynn@pnnl.gov
