SSSF (Now EOL) deployed an ISS Mobile CLASS, and three PAM III flux stations to
support SCMS. The experiment was designed to study the relationship
between horizontal convective rolls within the convective boundary layer
and surface layer heat fluxes and surface layer wind profiles. Over 20
soundings were made from the Mobile CLASS during the first half of July
1995. The Mobile CLASS van was then used to log data from a tethered
sonde system operated by the investigators during the last half of July
and into August. The ISS operated from mid-July through mid-August
providing surface data, wind and virtual temperature profiles, and
CLASS sounding capability. Over 70 successful soundings were made from
the ISS during the project. SCMS was the first field deployment of
PAM III, using the three prototype Flux-PAM stations. In addition to
the standard surface meteorological measurements, each Flux-PAM station
also measured momentum flux, sensible and latent heat flux, net
radiation, and soil heat flux. A lightning strike, some flooding, and
a hurricane provided good shakedown tests for this prototype network.
