Projects: Current, Recent, and Upcoming

• 2022

  • CHACHA 22 : CHemistry in the Arctic: Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols
    
  • 15 Feb - 16 Apr in Utqiagvik, AK
    PI: Paul Shepson, Co-Investigators: Kerri Pratt Sara Lance Jose Fuentes William Simpson Christine Hrycyna

    Measurements characterizing air chemistry, aerosols, and clouds over the North Slope of Alaska and over open leads in the sea ice offshore.

• 2021

  • TRANS²Am 21 : Transport and Transformation of Ammonia
    
    • Aug 1 - Oct 15 in Laramie, WY
      PI: Emily Fischer, Co-Investigators: Dana Caulton Ilana Pollack Amy Sullivan

      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
    
    • 2021 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Nick Mahon, Matt Burkhart, Samuel Haimov

      Flights testing functionality of newly-installed equipment and instrumentation.

• 2020

  • MONARK 20 : A^3 Project Monark
    
    • Feb in Laramie, WY
      PI: Michael Vergalla, Co-Investigator: Bryan Chan

      Water vapor retrieval using GPS signal occultation.

  • DILBERT 20 : Deployable Instruments - Laramie Based - Research Test flights
    
    • July in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Nick Mahon, Matt Burkhart

      Flights testing functionality of newly-installed equipment and instrumentation.

  • HCPI 20 : Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.'s Holographic Cloud Particle Imager test flights
    
    • August in Laramie, WY
      PI: Daniel McAdams

      Flights testing functionality of holographic particle imager.

  • FLUX 20 : Test measurements using a 10 Hz CO2/CH4 Picarro gas analyzer
    
    • September in Laramie, WY
      PI: Dana Caulton

      Flights to obtain eddy covariance measurements over the Pawnee National Grasslands in Colorado.

• 2019

  • APART-LITE 19 : Test flights for Ammonia Phase Partitioning and Transport
    
    • Nov in Laramie, WY
      PI: Emily V. Fischer, Co-Investigators: Ilana B. Pollack, Amy Sullivan, Dana Caulton

      Test flights sampling emissions sources associated with animal feeding and agriculture operations around the Colorado Front Range.

  • CHEESEHEAD 19 : Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors
    
    • Jul - Sep in Rhinelander, WI
      PI: Ankur Desai, Co-Investigators: Mark Schwartz, Matthias Mauder, Stefan Metzger

      Surface energy balance and PBL response over an evolving vegetation environment.

  • APEX 19 : The All-Phase Water Probe Experiment
    
    • May 2019 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Dave Leon, Perry Wechsler, Co-investigators: Zhien Wang, Jeff French

      Instrumentation testing for Alpenglow All-Phase Water Probe.

  • TECPEC 19 : Terrain Effect on Clouds and Precipitation - an Educational Campaign
    
    • March 2019 in Laramie, WY and Salt Lake City, UT
      PI: Bart Geerts, Co-investigators: Jeff French, Gannet Hallar, Ed Zipser, John Lin

      Educational project with student-led investigation of orographic clouds and precipitation, as well as air chemistry over the Uinta basin.

• 2018

  • BB-FLUX 18 : Biomass Burning Fluxes
    
    • Jul 17 - Sep 22 in Boise, ID
      PI: Rainer Volkamer

      Quantifying plume characteristics for fires around the western US.

  • TEST 18 : Internal instrument development and testing
    
    • Feb - June in Laramie, WY
      Contacts: Nick Mahon, Matt Burkhart, Samuel Haimov, Min Deng

      Development and testing of AVAPS dropsonde system, supplementary IMU measurements with KPR, and nadir lidar testing

• 2017

  • SNOWIE 17 : Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds—the Idaho Experiment
    
    • Jan 7 - Mar 17 in Boise, ID
      PIs: Jeff French, Bart Geerts, Katja Friedrich, Co-Investigator: Robert Rauber

      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
    
    • Nov 4 - Nov 18 in Lancaster, PA
      PI: Richard Clark, Co-Investigators: Paul Markowski, Ken Davis, Mark Miller, Belay Demoz, Zhibo Zhang, Todd Sikora, Brian Billings

      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.

• 2016

  • MARLi 16 : Multi-function Airborne Raman Lidar Testing Experiment
    
    • Jun 1 - Aug 1 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Zhien Wang,

      Testing of newly developed MARLi system.

  • RadFIRE 16 : Rapid-Deployments to Wildfires Campaign
    
    • Aug 17 - Oct 31 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Craig Clements, David Kingsmill

      Test the effectiveness of the WCR to measure wildire plumes.

  • PACMICE 16 : Precipitation and Cloud Measurements for Instrument Characterization and Evaluation
    
    • Aug 17 - Oct 31 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Jeff French, Samuel Haimov, Bart Geerts

      New instrument testing over a wide range of cloud and precipitation environments for recently acquired equipment.

• 2015

  • PECAN 15 : Plains Elevated Convection at Night
    
    • Jun 1 - Jul 17 in Great Bend, KS
      PIs: Bart Geerts, Tom Parish, Dave Parsons, Tammy Weckworth, Josh Wurman, Conrad Zeigler

      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.

• 2014

  • START 14 : Student Training in Airborne Research and Technology
    
    • Mar 26 - Apr 9 in Prescott, AZ
      PIs: Melanie Wetzel, Dorothea Ivanova

      Educational experiment working with undergraduates and faculty at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-focus on Research Aviation.

• 2013

  • OWLES 13 : Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems
    
    • Dec 3 - Jan 29 in Penn Yan, NY
      PIs: Bart Geerts, Dave Kristovich

      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
    
    • Jul 3 - Aug 28 in Southwest UK
      PIs: Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Jeff French, Dave Leon

      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
    
    • Jan 3 - Mar 3 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Bart Geerts

      Continuation of ASCII-12.

• 2012

  • IDEAS 12 : Instrument Development and Education in Airborne Science
    
    • Sep - Nov in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Al Rodi, Jeff Stith, Raymond Shaw, Jeff French

      Test new instruments on the UWKA to be used for Airborne science.

  • PREAMBLE 12 : Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment
    
    • May 17 - Jun 17 in Southern California
      PIs: Tom Parish

      Examine the atmospheric dynamics associated with the summertime MABL near Point Conception using the UWKA.

  • ASCII 12 : AgI Seeding of Clouds Impact Investigation
    
    • Jan 4 - Mar 4 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Bart Geerts

      Investigate how ground-based glaciogenic seeding affect microphysics of cold orographic clouds.

• 2011

  • DOMEX 11 : The Dominica Experiment
    
    • Apr 4 - May 8 in Fort-De-France, Martinique
      PIs: Ron Smith

      Understand the physics of convective initiation and precipitation in a simple steady tropical environment.

  • CAMPS 11 : Colorado Airborne Multi-phase Cloud Study
    
    • Jan 3 - Feb 28 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Linnea Avallone

      In situ and remotely sensed measurements of wintertime clouds in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

• 2010

  • LPVEX 10 : Light Precipitation Validation Experiment
    
    • Sep 10 - Oct 10 in Turku, Finland
      PIs: Tristan L'Ecuyer

      Development and testing of new radar algorithms in regions of light precipitation at high latitudes.

  • KAPEE 10 : King Air PBL Exploratory Experiment
    
    • June in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Zhien Wang

      Test and demonstrate the capability of a new compact Raman Lidar for measurements from the UWKA for investigating BL aerosol and water vapor profiles.

• 2009

  • ISPA 09 : Inhibition of Snowfall by Pollution Aerosols
    
    • December in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Dan Ward, Bill Cotton

      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
    
    • June in JeffCo airport, NCAR
      PIs:

      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)
    
    • Feb - Apr in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Bart Geerts

      Continuation of WWDC 08. To be 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)
    
    • Feb - Apr in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Zhien Wang

      Continuation of WWDC 08. 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).

• 2008

  • CLDGPS 08 : Measurement of Cloud Perturbation Pressures using Differential GPS
    
    • May - Jun in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Tom Parish, Dave Leon

      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)
    
    • Feb - Mar in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Bart Geerts

      To be conducted in parallel with WAICO. Investigate the effects of AgI seeding of supercooled clouds in the Medicine Bow mountains.

  • WAICO 08 : Wyoming Airborne Integrated Cloud Observations (Experiment)
    
    • Feb - Mar in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Zhien Wang

      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).

• 2007

  • ACME 07 : Airborne Carbon in the Mountains Experiment
    
    • Apr - Aug in Laramie, WY
      PIs: David Schimel, Britton Stephens, Teresa Campos

      Measurements of Carbon and other trace gas budgets in the Central Rocky Mountain region.

• 2006

  • COWVEX 06 : Cloudsat Over Wyoming Validation EXperiment
    
    • Oct 2006 - Jan 2007 in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Dave Leon

      Use of the WCR for validation of CloudSAT.

  • CuPIDO 06 : Cumulus Photogrammetric, In-Situ and Doppler Observations
    
    • Jul - Aug in Tucson, AZ
      PIs: Bart Geerts, Rick Damiani

      Investigation of Cumulus dynamics and forcing in southern Arizona.

  • DMIMS 06 : Dynamics and Microphysics in Marine Stratocumulus
    
    • May - Jun in Arcata, CA
      PIs: Dave Leon, Jeff Snider, Bart Geerts, Tom Parish

      Investigation of marine stratus and sc off the coast of California.

  • TREX 06 : Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment
    
    • Mar - Apr in Bishop, CA
      PIs: Vanda Grubisic

      Multi-facility project to understand wave-rotor coupled system, downwind of Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

  • NASA 06 :
    
    • Jan - Feb in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Bart Geerts, Jeff Snider, Dave Leon

      Investigation of Orographic influence on cloud and precipitation over the Snowy Range Mountains in SE Wyoming.

• 2005

  • CONE 05 :
    
    • October in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Al Rodi

      Test and verification of static pressure measurment on N2UW using "static cone".

• 2004

  • RICO 04 : Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean
    
    • Dec 2004 - Jan 2005 in Antigua
      PIs: Harry Ochs, Bob Rauber, Bart Geerts

      Multi-facility project to investigate small, maritime cumulus in the western Carribean.

  • GOA 04 : Gulf of Alaska project
    
    • Sep - Oct in Juneau, AK
      PIs: Nick Bond, Brian Colle, George Young, Nathaniel Winstead

      Investigation of barrier jets off the coast of Alaska.

  • GPS 04 :
    
    • June in Laramie, WY
      PIs: Tom Parish, Matt Burkhart

      Use of differential corrections to test effectiveness of GPS measurments on N2UW.

  • COBRA 04 : CO2 Budget and Regional Airborne Study
    
    • May - Aug in Bangor, ME
      PIs: Steven Wofsy

      Determination of large scale carbon budgets in North East of North America.

  • CIFEX 04 : Cloud Indirect Effects Experiment
    
    • April in Arcata, CA
      PIs:

  • GLICAF 04 : Great Lakes Ice Cover–Atmospheric Flux
    
    • Feb - Mar in Toledo, OH
      PIs: Neil Laird, David Kristovich

      Measurement of fluxes over the Great Lakes in concert with Lake-effect Snow events.

  • ROLLS 04 :
    
    • Jan - Feb in Racine, WI
      PIs: Bob Kelly, Bart Geerts

      Measurement of fluxes over Lake Michigan in Winter.