AMF2 Deployment, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Location: 40° 4' 55" N, -106° 7' 55" W
Altitude: 2078 meters
This view shows the primary instrument locations on Mount Werner for the STORMVEX campaign. Additional instrumentation will operate from the valley floor in Steamboat Springs.
In October 2010, the initial deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) takes place at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for the Storm Peak Laboratory Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX). The objective of this field campaign is to obtain data about liquid and mixed-phase clouds using AMF2 instruments in conjunction with Storm Peak Laboratory, a cloud and aerosol research facility operated by the Desert Research Institute.
The already extensive instrument suite at Storm Peak Lab, located at an elevation of 3220 meters on Mt. Werner, will be augmented with additional state-of-the-art instruments typically used for airborne cloud research. The instrumentation at Storm Peak will collect in situ cloud, and precipitation property measurements, while AMF2 instrumentation operates at lower elevations to gather complementary measurements. The resulting data set will be used to test and improve the way cloud and aerosol processes work in climate models.
