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Data request forms for recent projects are listed below. Click here for project-specific webpages providing summary information including detailed flight notes. Unless otherwise noted, processed UWKA flight level data in netcdf format. For data requests from older projects or additional information, please email the UWKA project management group.
CHACHA-22 : CHemistry in the Arctic: Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols
Measurements characterizing air chemistry, aerosols, and clouds over the North Slope of Alaska and over open leads in the sea ice offshore.
TRANS2Am-22 : Transport and Transformation of Ammonia
Characterization of chemistry and aerosols around agriculture sites in Colorado and in upslope wind events over the higher mountains.
DILBERT-21 : Deployable Instruments - Laramie Based - Research Test flights
Flights testing functionality of newly-installed equipment and instrumentation.
TRANS2Am-21 : Transport and Transformation of Ammonia
Characterization of chemistry and aerosols around agriculture sites in Colorado and in upslope wind events over the higher mountains.
MONARK-20 : A^3 Project Monark
Water vapor retrieval using GPS signal occultation.
DILBERT-20 : Deployable Instruments - Laramie Based - Research Test flights
Flights testing functionality of newly-installed equipment and instrumentation.
HCPI-20 : Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.'s Holographic Cloud Particle Imager test flights
Flights testing functionality of holographic particle imager.
Test measurements using a 10 Hz CO2/CH4 Picarro gas analyzer.
CHEESEHEAD-19 : Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors
Surface energy balance and PBL response over an evolving vegetation environment.
APART-LITE-19 : Test flights for Ammonia Phase Partitioning and Transport
Test flights sampling emissions sources associated with animal feeding and agriculture operations around the Colorado Front Range.
APEX-19 : The All-Phase Water Probe Experiment
Instrumentation testing for Alpenglow All-Phase Water Probe.
TECPEC-19 : Terrain Effect on Clouds and Precipitation - an Educational Campaign
Educational project with student-led investigation of orographic clouds and precipitation, as well as air chemistry over the Uinta basin.
BB-FLUX-18: Biomass Burning Fluxes
Quantifying plume characteristics for fires around the western US.
TEST-18 : Internal instrument development and testing
Development and testing of AVAPS dropsonde system, supplementary IMU measurements with KPR, and nadir lidar testing.
SNOWIE-17 : Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds—the Idaho Experiment
Sampling orographic precipitation and studying the effectiveness of ground and airborne seeding over Payette Basin region.
SEAR-MAR-17 : Multi-institutional Collaborative Student Experience in Airborne Research in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Sampling atmospheric phenomena in the mid-Atlantic region, with a focus on student involvement in association with Millersville University, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
PACMICE-16 : Precipitation and Cloud Measurements for Instrument Characterization and Evaluation
New instrument testing over a wide range of cloud and precipitation environments for recently acquired equipment.
RadFIRE-16 : Rapid-Deployments to Wildfires Campaign
Test the effectiveness of the WCR to measure wildire plumes.
PECAN-15 : Plains Elevated Convection at Night
Advance understanding of nocturnal warm-season precipation with focus on low-level jet and stable boundary layer with the largest Convective Available Potential Energy aloft.
START-14 : Student Training in Airborne Research and Technology
Educational experiment working with undergraduates and faculty at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-focus on Research Aviation.
OWLeS-13 : Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems
Investigate Lake-effect snow systems that form over Lake Ontario and better understand processes for the development and maintenance of such systems.
COPE-MED-13 : Convective Precipitation Experiment - Microphysics and Entrainment Dependencies
Investigate microphysics pathways and entrainment dependencies on the develoment of precipitation in convective storms in Southwest England.
ASCII-13 : AgI Seeding of Clouds Impact Investigation
Continuation of ASCII-12.
IDEAS-12 : Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science
Test new instruments on the UWKA to be used for Airborne science.
PREAMBLE-12 : Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment
Examine the atmospheric dynamics associated with the summertime MABL near Point Conception using the UWKA.
ASCII-12 : AgI Seeding of Clouds Impact Investigation
Investigate how ground-based glaciogenic seeding affect microphysics of cold orographic clouds.
DOMEX-11 : The Dominica Experiment
Understand the physics of convective initiation and precipitation in a simple steady tropical environment.
CAMPS-11 : Colorado Airborne Multi-phase Cloud Study
In situ and remotely sensed measurements of wintertime clouds in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
LPVEX-10 : Light Precipitation Validation Experiment
Development and testing of new radar algorithms in regions of light precipitation at high latitudes.
KAPEE-10 : King Air PBL Exploratory Experiment
Test and demonstrate the capability of a new compact Raman Lidar for measurements from the UWKA for investigating BL aerosol and water vapor profiles.
ISPA-09 : Inhibition of Snowfall by Pollution Aerosols
Sampling of CCN and aerosol upwind of the Park Range in North Central CO and the San Juan Mountains of South Western CO in the winter.
ASP-09 : Advanced Study Program
Four flights/2 days in support of ASP Summer Colloquium. Projects led by advanced graduate students, utilizing multiple NSF observing facilities, including UWKA.
WWDC-09 : Wyoming Water Development Commission (Experiment)
Continuation of WWDC 08, conducted in parallel with WAICO. Investigate the effects of AgI seeding of supercooled clouds in the Medicine Bow mountains.
WAICO-09 : Wyoming Airborne Integrated Cloud Observations (Experiment)
Test and demonstrate the capability of new remote sensing tools for the UWKA. This project centers around the upward Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL-I), a new (downward-pointing) cloud lidar (WCL-II), and the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR).
CLDGPS-08 : Measurement of Cloud Perturbation Pressures using Differential GPS
Use measures of basic state variables combined with Differential GPS to investigate pressure perturbations around actively growing cumulus clouds. The perturbations will be tied to the cloud kinematics through measurements from in-situ probes and airborne Doppler radar (WCR).
WWDC-08 : Wyoming Water Development Commission (Experiment)
Investigate the effects of AgI seeding of supercooled clouds in the Medicine Bow mountains, conducted in parallel with WAICO.
WAICO-08 : Wyoming Airborne Integrated Cloud Observations (Experiment)
Test and demonstrate the capability of new remote sensing tools for the UWKA. This project centers around the new Wyoming Cloud Lidar (WCL), a new microwave radiometer built by Prosensing, and the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR).
ACME-07 : Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment
Measurements of Carbon and other trace gas budgets in the Central Rocky Mountain region.
COWVEX-06 : Cloudsat Over Wyoming Validation EXperiment
Use of the WCR for validation of CloudSAT.
CuPIDO-06 : Cumulus Photogrammetric, In-Situ and Doppler Observations
Investigation of Cumulus dynamics and forcing in southern Arizona.
DMIMS-06 : Dynamics and Microphysics in Marine Stratocumulus
Investigation of marine stratus and sc off the coast of California.
TREX-06 : Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment
Multi-facility project to understand wave-rotor coupled system, downwind of Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
Investigation of Orographic influence on cloud and precipitation over the Snowy Range Mountains in SE Wyoming.
RICO-04 : Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean
Multi-facility project to investigate small, maritime cumulus in the western Carribean.
GOA-04 : Gulf of Alaska project
Investigation of barrier jets off the coast of Alaska.
Use of differential corrections to test effectiveness of GPS measurments on N2UW.
COBRA-04 : CO2 Budget and Regional Airborne Study
Determination of large scale carbon budgets in North East of North America.
CIFEX-04 : Cloud Indirect Effects Experiment
GLICAF-04 : Great Lakes Ice Cover–Atmospheric Flux
Measurement of fluxes over the Great Lakes in concert with Lake-effect Snow events.
Measurement of fluxes over Lake Michigan in Winter.
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