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Houston Lightning Mapping Array (HLMA) post-processed (L2+) data, collected during the ESCAPE (Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Environment) field campaign IOP period (6 June - 31 July 2022), and the remaining DOE TRACER IOP period (July-Sep 2022). These data were processed uniformly with reasonable default quality control parameters and are available in NetCDF format.
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Studying Aerosol, Clouds, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeastern Texas
Abstract A multi-agency succession of field campaigns was conducted in southeastern Texas during July 2021 through October 2022 to study the complex interactions of aerosols, clouds and air pollution in the coastal urban environment. As part of the Tracking Aerosol Convection interactions Experiment (TRACER), the TRACER- Air Quality (TAQ) campaign the Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE) and the Convective Cloud Urban Boundary Layer Experiment (CUBE), a combination of ground-based supersites and mobile laboratories, shipborne measurements and aircraft-based instrumentation were deployed. These diverse platforms collected high-resolution data to characterize the aerosol microphysics and chemistry, cloud and precipitation micro- and macro-physical properties, environmental thermodynamics and air quality-relevant constituents that are being used in follow-on analysis and modeling activities. We present the overall deployment setups, a summary of the campaign conditions and a sampling of early research results related to: (a) aerosol precursors in the urban environment, (b) influences of local meteorology on air pollution, (c) detailed observations of the sea breeze circulation, (d) retrieved supersaturation in convective updrafts, (e) characterizing the convective updraft lifecycle, (f) variability in lightning characteristics of convective storms and (g) urban influences on surface energy fluxes. The work concludes with discussion of future research activities highlighted by the TRACER model-intercomparison project to explore the representation of aerosol-convective interactions in high-resolution simulations.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2114198
- PAR ID:
- 10642925
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- Publisher / Repository:
- American Meteorological Society
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- Journal Name:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- ISSN:
- 0003-0007
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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