Table 1.1. Experiments involved in CASES-97

Table 3.1. Land-Cover characteristics summary

Table 3.2. Characteristics of mean surface types

Table 3.3. Final sites with latitudes and longitudes

Table 3.4. ASTER Instrumentation for CASES

Table 3.5. Instrumentation at PAM III Stations

Table 3.6. Qualls instrumentation

Table 3.7. NOAA instrumentation

Table 3.8. Instrumentation at ABLE Smileyberg site

Table 3.9. Towanda Instrumentation (ARM CART Extended Facility #6)

Table 4.1. S-POL Radar Characteristics and boundary-layer scans

Table 5.1. UW King Air Scientific Payload for CASES 97

Table 6.1. Observing priorities with respect to the scientific objectives of CASES 97-1a. (x=major; o=minor; (-)= would not be used)

Table 7.1. Data sets for CASES-97

Table 7.1a. Data collected as part of the experiment

Table 7.1b. Supplementary data

Table 7.1c. Data fro satellite

Table 7.1d. Model data

Figure 1.1. CASES-97 Domain from Overview and Implementation of CASES.

Figure 1.2. Area over which supporting synoptic data will be collected. This domain, appropriate for CASES, was selected for GCIP; data are being collected as part of their ISOP-97 (See Chapter 7 for details).

Figure 1.3. Location of CASES-97 instrumentation.

Figure 2.1. Timing of phases in the diurnal evolution of the ABL, namely Morning Transition which includes the change from stable to convective conditions and rapid growth, Daytime Convective Boundary Layer which includes fairly steady-state conditions, Evening Transition from convective to near-neutral to stable (Also called ABL collapse), Night-Time Evolution which includes development of the low-level jet (several hours after sunset to just after sunrise).

Figure 3.1. Schematic of instrument placement on NCAR/NSF surface stations.

Figure 3.2. Wind roses for April and May in the Wichita area. (Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1968: Climate Atlas of the U.S. USDOC ESSA Env. Data Svc., 80 pp. Wind data based on hourly observations 1951-1960.

Figure 4.1. Location of S-POL and nearby WSR-88D radars relative to the CASES-97 domain (roughly the southern two-thirds of the outlined watershed).

Figure 4.2. Schematic of radar beam height above Earth’s surface accounting for bending of the beam by vertical variation of refractive index, and for the curvature of the earth.

Figure 5A.1: Basic Stack Pattern for four flight levels. Flown Crosswind; Outside turns. x: into page; (circle) out of page.

Figure 5A.2: Stack Plus 2 Along. x: into page;

Figure 5A.3: Cat Ear Pattern: One Cycle.

Figure 5A.4: Triangle Pattern. The ABLE profilers are marked by an ‘x’. Note the turns are outside turns

Figure 5A.5: (left) Pitch Maneuver; (right) Sideslip Maneuver.

Figure 5A.6: Reverse-Heading Maneuver

Figure 5A.7: Stacks and Triangles

Figure 5A.8: Mixed Cat's Ears and Stack. Aircraft can alternate positions to minimize bias or system-failure problems.

¹Not all figures have been converted into digitized form at this time.

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