DYNAMO Facilities
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During DYNAMO, scientists plan to operate six radars; several balloon-borne sounding systems; a suite of surface radiation measurements; two research aircraft; three international research vesels; and buoy and mooring systems. Instruments will be based on various islands throughout the greater Indian Ocean region including: Addu Atoll, Maldives; Malé, Maldives; Diego Gracia, BIOT; Sri Lanka; Manus Island, Papua New Guinea; as well as aboard ocean-bound ships and research aircraft.
One of the most important types of instruments to be operated during DYNAMO are meteorological radars, which provide information about what is happening inside of the clouds and rainstorms that lead to the development of the MJO. Radars using different wavelengths are needed to observe clouds that are raining, clouds that are not raining, and moisture in the surrounding clear air. Weather balloons also need to be launched to observe the vertical structure of the atmosphere in a constant fashion over long periods of time. The surface radiation budget is another critical factor in the Earth-s climate that needs to be observed. Detailed physics within clouds are to be measured by instrumented research aircraft.
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Radars: |
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S-PolKa Radar :: S-band & Ka-band
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Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research & Teaching Radar (SMART-R) :: C-band
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Ka-band & X-band Radars
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C-band Radar
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W-band Radar
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Ka-band ARM Zenith Radar (KAZR)
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Research Ships: |
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R/V Revelle
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R/V Sagar Kanya
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JAMSTEC R/V Mirai
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R/V Baruna Jaya 1
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Aircraft: |
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Lockheed P-3 Orion
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Falcon-20
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Atmospheric Sensors: |
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P-3 Dropsondes
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CSU Soundings
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International Atmospheric Observations
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Integrated Sounding System (ISS) :: Shipboard
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ARM Balloon Borne Sounding Systems
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Integrated Sounding System (ISS)
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Surface Sensors: |
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ARM Mobile Facility 2 :: Ceilometer, lidars, microwave, visible, and infrared radiometers; surface meteorology
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Lidar, radiometers, surface meterology, ocean surface, chemistry
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Radiometer
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Ocean Sensors: |
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P-3 Airborne eXpendable Conductivity, Temperature, Depths Sensor (AXCTD)
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Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) Moorings
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Conductivity, Temperature, & Depth (CTD)
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Upper Ocean/Surface Flux Moorings
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