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SONDE-08 Simultaneous Observation of the Near-Dryline Environment 1 May - 6 June 2008, near Lubbock Texas
Abstract: SONDE-08 aims to study the land-surface impact on dryline formation, and the fine-scale structure of mature drylines, using multi-scale observations and numerical simulations.
Scientific Overview Document (June 07)
NSF Proposal Summaries (submitted in Jan 07) University of Wyoming: Geerts & LeMone (full proposal) Texas Tech University: Chris Weiss & LeMone University of Alabama in Huntsville: Kevin Knupp Purdue: Dev Niyogi
Facility requests (submitted in Dec 06) University of Wyoming King Air + WCR
Presentations from the first planning meeting (9/6/06, Boulder CO) Chris Weiss: overview of earlier efforts, and update Qun Miao: fine-scale dynamics of drylines observed in IHOP Bart Geerts: further thoughts, and relevance to SONDE-08 (includes map) Miao and Geerts (MWR, 2007, revised) dryline study Fei Chen: HRLDAS and coupled WRF simulations in IHOP and SONDE-08
Dryline characteristics near Lubbock, Texas, based on radar and West Texas Mesonet data for May 2005 and May 2006 (submitted to Wea. and Forecasting, May 07)
last updated: June 12, 2007, by Bart Geerts |