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LASSO-CACTI Development Continues; Many Runs Available Today
Editor’s note: William Gustafson leads the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity. The latest LASSO scenario focuses on the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign. Gustafson sent in the following update on the LASSO-CACTI scenario. Simulated cloud reflectivity is shown every half-hour from 17–19 UTC from the Weather…
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RELAMPAGO-CACTI Workshop All About the Data
Editor’s note: Adam Varble, principal investigator for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign, writes about a data workshop held with researchers from the Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) campaign. The RELAMPAGO-CACTI study region is the birthplace of the world’s largest and tallest thunderstorm…
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CACTI Blog: Clouds and Crowds Are Gathering
Editor’s note: Adam Varble, an atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and principal investigator for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign, sent in this post. These ground-based instruments have become a fixture of the Sierras de Córdoba mountain landscape in central Argentina and will remain so through April 2019.…
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Gearing Up for a Stormy CACTI Deployment
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. Anjeli Doty, Los Alamos National Laboratory Towering stacks of ominous dark clouds, splitting strikes of bright lightning, and torrential rain typify weather in the rugged Sierras de Córdoba mountain range in north-central Argentina. It is a place to find…