Numerical Weather Prediction & Model Integration

Summary “Mini-MPEX” continues some of the goals of the MPEX project (2013) to explore real-time targeting of pre- and near-storm observations to improve numerical model forecasts of thunderstorms. NSSL’s CLAMPS atmospheric profiling system was used in the field in 2016–17, deploying 28 times on 20 days over the two years.

Summary PECAN was the first campaign to focus expressly on nocturnal convection initiation (CI) and MCSs and their environment. There were 5 main focus areas: CI Bores Low-level jets MCSs storm- and MCS-scale NWP Funding Agencies NSF NASA NOAA DOE Platforms CLAMPS1 WYO King Air NCAR S-PolKa 3 DOWs 3 NCAR ISS 449 Profiler NASA DC8 NOAA P3 SMART-Rs RAXPOL NOXP FM-CW radar MAX, Mobile mesonets MIPS Tethersondes AERIs Water Vapor lidars wind lidars

Summary AWAKEN is an international, multi-institutional wind energy field campaign designed to answer the most pressing science questions about how individual wind turbines interact with one another and the atmosphere in a wind farm.