An ISS (Integrated Sounding System) was deployed to northern Wisconsin for the CHEESEHEAD campaign for 5 months in 2019. The ISS was located at 45.9458°N, 90.2940°W on a field approx 1 mile west of the WLEF tall tower where a variety of instruments from other groups was deployed. 17 ISFS flux towers were deployed in the surrounding forest.
The ISS instruments include:
Radar Wind Profiler
NCAR/EOL 449 MHz Modular Wind Profiler
Soundings
Vaisala MW41 / RS41 radiosondes (172)
Sodar-RASS
Metek DSDPA.90-24
Ceilometer
Vaisala CL51
Surface Met
Gill Wind Observer (2D sonic) at 10m
Lufft WS300 (Temp/RH/Pressure) at 2m
Vaisala PTB330 (Pressure) at 2m
HSA Tipping bucket rain gauge
Lufft WS800 (Wind/Precip/T/RH/P) at 3m
GPS Integrated Water Vapor
Trimble NetR8 with Vaisala WXT at 2m
Camera
Moonglow Technologies All Sky Cam ASC-N1
Webcam (Panasonic BL-C140A)
The facility request for CHEESEHEAD was lead by Ankur Desai of the University of Wisconsin. The radiosondes were jointly supplied by the LAOF deployment pool and by a University of Wisconsin SPARC proposal lead by Erik Olson and Tim Wagner.
The ISS site also hosted a Montana State University surface energy balance station with 3 m flux tripod and a NOAA / ERSL SURFRAD solar radiation monitoring system.