NOAA NAME 2004 Field Projects





























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Investigators Institutions Title Deployment












































































































































































































































































Art Douglas Creighton University Enhanced Radiosonde Observations in Mexico during
NAMEand Support for the NAME Forecast Office Centers

 -increased frequency of GPS soundings at seven SMN sites
-forecaster exchange with SMN
-NAME data server at SMN












































































































































































































































































   












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Mike Douglas NOAA/NSSL A Regional-Scale Atmospheric Sounding Network in
Support of the North American Monsoon Experiment

 -enhanced pibal network at up to 18 sites (number TBD)
-omegasonde (RS-80N) soundings at Bahia Tortugas and
Puerto Peñasco
-powersonde at Puerto Peñasco (or Obregon)












































































































































































































































































   












































































































































































































































































     












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Mike Douglas, NOAA/NSSL Moisture Fluxes and Mesoscale Circulations Associated
with the North American Monsoon System		 -NOAA P-3 measurements of mean moisture flux field (6+ flights)
Low-level jet (2 flights), gulf surge genesis (2 flights),
land-sea and mountain-valley breezes (2 flights)












































































































































































































































































Joe Zehnder, Arizona State University












































































































































































































































































G.V. Rao, and St. Louis University  












































































































































































































































































Bill Cotton Colorado State University    












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Mike Douglas, NOAA/NSSL The Role of Sea Surface Temperature and Vegetation
Characteristics in the Seasonal Evolution of Summer Rains
over Northwestern Mexico

 -twice-daily pibal soundings--five coastal and two inland sites
-flux tower and omegasonde soundings at dry forest site
-two coastal automated surface stations












































































































































































































































































Chris Watts, and University of Sonora












































































































































































































































































Russel Scott USDA/ARS












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Mike Douglas, NOAA/NSSL The Role of Oceanic Processes on the Gulf of California
SST Evolution during the NAME

 -two 17-day cruises with CTDs every 10km and 4x daily atmos
soundings and continuous ADCP, SST, SSS, and surface met measurements
-surface drifter deployment in lower Gulf of California
(12 each cruise; 10 funded here)












































































































































































































































































A.S. Mascarenhas Jr, Ruben Castro, UA de Baja California












































































































































































































































































M.F. Lavin, Emilio Beier CICESE  












































































































































































































































































David Mitchell, D. Ivanova, and Desert Research Insitute    












































































































































































































































































Peter Guest Naval Postgraduate School    












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































David Gochis, NCAR Coordinated Analysis and Management of the NAME
Enhanced Surface Raingage Network

 -continued operations of 100 tipping-bucket raingauges through 2005
-quality controlled, NAME 2004 gage-only data
-transition operations to Mexican sponsors in 2006












































































































































































































































































Chris Watts, IMADES












































































































































































































































































Wei Shi, Wayne Higgins, and NOAA/CPC  












































































































































































































































































Jaime Garatuza-Payan ITSON    












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Wayne Higgins, NOAA/CPC Enhancement of the Daily Raingauge Network in Mexico
in Support of NAME

 -cooperative observer network of 1100 simple raingauges in
North Mexico
-digitized and quality controlled daily data set












































































































































































































































































Rene Lobato and Guillermo Reza Mex. Inst. Of Water Tech.












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Austin Jamison NOAA/NWS Phoenix WFO

 		 Improvement of the Surface Weather Observation Network
 in the Arizona Portion of the NAME Tier 1 Region

 -three automated surface met sites in soutwestern Arizona















































































































































































































































































 












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Clark King, Jian-wen Bao,
Bob Zamora, Marty Ralph,
Leslie Hartten, and Ken Gage

 NOAA/ETL
NOAA/Aeronomy Lab


 Boundary Layer, Flux, and Soil Moisture Studies for
NAME, Including Deployment of a NOAA UHF Wind
Profiler Array		 -wind profiler, RASS, 10m met tower, soil moisture at Obregon
-GPS soundings at Puerto Peñasco (wind profiler TBD)

























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































   












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Tim Lang, Steve Rutledge, S Nesbitt, Colorado State University Analysis and Diagnostic Studies from SMN Radar and
Related Data in Support of NAME

 -SMN radar data collection, quality control, and calibration
-composite refelctivity, velocity, and rainfall data set












































































































































































































































































Rit Carbone, and NCAR












































































































































































































































































Arturo Valdez-Manzanilla Juarez University    












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Steve Rutledge, R Cifelli, S Nesbitt, Colorado State University Ship-based Radar, Sounding, and Flux Observations in
Support of NAME

 -shipborne systems at mouth of GoC for 45 days
-inertially stabilized 915MHz wind profiler
-GPS soundings 6-8x daily
-air-sea radiative and turbulent flux instrumentation
-ceilometer, drizzle droplet spectral measurements, rain gauges
-motion-referenced laser wave sensor












































































































































































































































































Chris Fairall, NOAA/ETL












































































































































































































































































Walt Petersen, and University of Alabama  












































































































































































































































































John Gerlach NASA/Wallops Island  












































































































































































































































































       












































































































































































































































































Chris Williams, Ken Gage, NOAA/Aeronomy Lab Microphysical Properties of Monsoon Precipitation
Retrieved from Precipitation Profilers in Support
 of NAME		 -precipitation profilers at coastal site and mountain site
-vertical motion profiler at mountain site












































































































































































































































































Allen White, Marty Ralph NOAA/ETL