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 |
| GPS Integrated Water Vapor | Trimble NetR8 with Vaisala WXT at 2m |
| Camera |
Moonglow Technologies All Sky Cam ASC-N1 |
Summary plots from the ISS instruments are available here.
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.
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