ATD Director's Message
FY 1997 Science Highlights
Research Aviation Facility
Mission and Goals
Overview of the NCAR/NSF Fleet
Aircraft Development Activities
Field Support and Test Activities
- Fronts and Atlantic Storm Track Experiment (FASTEX)
- Community Aerosol Inlet Evaluation (CAINE-2)
Development Activities
- Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR)
- Radiometric Measurement Corrections and Documentation
- Evaluation and Improvement of Lyman-Alpha Hygrometer
- Evaluation of Tunable Diode Laser Hygrometer
- Evaluation of UV Hygrometer
Research Activities
- NASA Subsonic Contrails and Cloud Effects Study (SUCCESS)
- NASA Photochemistry in the Arctic Stratosphere in the Summer
- Small Cumulus Microphyiscs Study (SCMS)
- Aerosol Characterization Experiment - 1 (ACE-1)
- Hong Kong Air Quality Study
- Cooperative Air Surface Exchange Study (CASES)
- Project Azteca
Surface and Sounding Systems Facility
Mission and Goals
Field Support Activities
- NASA WindRad Program
- Project Juneau
- Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track Experiment (FASTEX)
- Airborne Measurements of Oceanic Wind-Vector Fields
Over the Labrador Sea using Passive Polarimetric Radiometry (LABSEA)
- Tropical Ocean Climate Study (TOCS)
- Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study (CASES)
- Low-Level Jet Experiment (JETEX-97)
- Radar and Aircraft Cloud Electrification Studies (RACES)
- Hurricane Ocean Winds (HOW)
- Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic (SHEBA)
Development Activities
- Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS)/GPS Dropsonde System
- Colorado University Flux Facility (CUFF)
- Dual-Wavelength Net Radiometer
- Infrared Water-Vapor Sensor
- Integrated Surface Radiation Measurement System
- Multiple-Antenna Profiling Radar (MAPR)
- Ozone Sensor Development
- Portable Automated Mesonet-III (PAM-III)
- Real-time Data Communications System for Field Projects
- Relaxed Eddy Accumulator (REA)
- Scientific Data Management System
- Wind-Profiler Antenna Test Range
- Wind-Profiler Real-Time Software Development
Research Activities
- Footprint for Measurement of Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Fluxes
- BOREAS
- Integrated Data Assimilation and Sounding System (IDASS)
- Lidars in Flat Terrain (LIFT)
- Spaced-Antenna Theoretical Development
- Tropical Ocean - Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere
Response Experiment (TOGA COARE)
- US Weather Research Program (USWRP)
- Natural Emissions of Oxidants Precursors: Validation of Techniques and
Assessment (NOVA-96)
Remote Sensing Facility
Mission and Goals
Remote Sensors and Capabilities
- S-Band Doppler Dual-Polarization Radar (S-Pol)
- Electra Doppler Radar (ELDORA)
- Weather Avoidance Radar Data System (WARDS)
- Staring Aerosol Backscatter Lidar (SABL)
- Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (O3 DIAL)
Field Support Activities
- Fronts and Atlantic Storm Tracks Experiment (FASTEX)
- Polarimetric Radar Observations in Winter Storms (PROWS)
- Tropical Ocean Climate Study (TOCS)
- Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study (CASES-97)
- NEXRAD Anomalous Propagation Data Collection
Sensor Development Activities
- Airborne Imaging Microwave Radiometer (AIMR)
- S-Band Doppler Dual Polarimetric Radar (S-Pol)
- S-Pol Bistatic Receiver System
- Doppler on Wheels (DOW)
- Solid-State High-Resolution Doppler Lidar (HRDL)
- DIAL Water-Vapor Profiling Lidar
- Polarimetric Rainfall Estimation
- SOLO Perusal and Editing Software
- GRID2PS
- TRACK-PLOT
- NEXRAD Data Quality
- Archive 1 Data Analysis Tool (A1Tool)
- Anomalous Propagation (AP) Clutter Mitigation
- Range/Velocity Mitigation
- S-Pol Antenna Pattern Measurement
Research Activities
Research Data Program
Design and Fabrication Services
Educational Activities
FY 1997 Publications
Community Service
Staff
,
Visitors and
Collaborations
Appendix A - Tables
Table RAF-1: Summary of Disposition of FY 1997 RAF Flight Requests
Table RAF-2: FY 1997 Aircraft Use Summary
Table SSSF-1: FY 1997 SSSF Field Support Activities
Table RSF-1: FY 1997 RSF Field Support Activities
Table RDP-1: Researchers Receiving Data Distributions from RDP in FY 1997
Table RDP-2: Institutions Using RDP Software in FY 1997
Table DFS-1: DFS Machine Shop Support in FY 1997
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ATD FY97 ASR