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Title: Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) Field Campaign Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1763013· OSTI ID:1763013
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  1. Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
  2. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  3. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  5. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  6. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  7. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States)
  8. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  9. State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Oswego, NY (United States)
  10. Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
  11. United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Exeter, Devon (United Kingdom)
  12. Univ. of Bergen (Norway)
  13. Univ. of Cologne (Germany)
  14. Univ. of Leipzig (Germany)
  15. Alfred Wegener Inst. for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (Germany)
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The Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) was conducted successfully between 1 December 2019 and 31 May 2020 around the Norwegian Sea. COMBLE deployed the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) first Mobile Facility (AMF1) along the coast of northern Scandinavia, at an arctic latitude (70°N), and an array of additional instruments on Bear Island (75°N) in the Norwegian Sea. The instruments deployed at these two sites collected a large array of in situ and remote-sensing observations of atmospheric conditions, clouds, precipitation, and aerosol. The main objective of COMBLE is to quantify the properties of shallow convective clouds that develop as part of an air-mass transformation process when cold air blows over open water. The two COMBLE sites are located at ~1,200 km and ~500 km from the cold source, i.e., arctic ice edge, respectively.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
PNNL; BNL; ANL; ORNL
DOE Contract Number:
SC0018927
OSTI ID:
1763013
Report Number(s):
DOE/SC-ARM-21-001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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