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Ongoing Projects

Past Ongoing Future 

Field Missions:

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 Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) will perform a series of measurement campaigns using the long-range NASA Global Hawk (GH) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) starting Fall 2011. The most recent deployment has just finished in March of 2013.
DC3 Field Experiment logo The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign is investigating the impact of deep, midlatitude continental convective clouds, including their dynamical, physical, and lightning processes, on upper tropospheric (UT) composition and chemistry. The campaign is making use of extensively instrumented aircraft platforms and ground-based observations. This field mission, based in Salina, Kansas, will run during May and June of 2012.
SEAC4RS Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study (SEAC4RS) will take place in August and September of 2013. This deployment will address key questions regarding the influence of Asian emissions on clouds, climate, and air quality as well as fundamental satellite observability of the system.
Others:
The LASP-Goddard Sun Climate Research Center (SCRC)
Radiative Transfer – Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and cloud properties in partly cloudy scenes using 3-D radiative models and Large-Eddy Simulations.
The Skywatch Observatory is an atmospheric teaching observatory place on the roof of the Duane building on the University of Colorado – Boulder campus. Multiple atmospheric radiation and precipitation measurements are continuously served on this website.
Leveling Platform Instrumentation development. This is a project concentrated on building and testing a leveling platform to be used in conjunction with the Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer (SSFR) on board various aircraft during field missions.
Radiometric Calibration Facility is currently being built at the University of Colorado, in our Laboratory in the Duane Building. This will enable us to calibrate in house our spectral irradiance and radiance measurements.