Journal Article

FZJ-2016-06932

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png The HD(CP)2 Observational Prototype Experiment HOPE - an overview

Macke, A. (Corresponding author) ; Seifert, P. ; Baars, H. ; Beekmans, C. ; Behrendt, A. ; Bohn, B.FZJ* ; Bühl, J. ; Crewell, S. ; Damian, T. ; Deneke, H. ; Düsing, S. ; Foth, A. ; Di Girolamo, P. ; Hammann, E. ; Heinze, R. ; Hirsikko, A. ; Kalisch, J. ; Kalthoff, N. ; Kinne, S. ; Kohler, M. ; Löhnert, U. ; Madhavan, B. L. ; Maurer, V. ; Muppa, S. K. ; Schween, J. ; Serikov, I. ; Siebert, H. ; Simmer, C. ; Späth, F. ; Steinke, S. ; Träumner, K. ; Wehner, B. ; Wieser, A. ; Wulfmeyer, V. ; Xie, X.

2016
EGU Katlenburg-Lindau

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/13624  doi:10.5194/acp-2016-990

Abstract: The "HD(CP)2 Observational Prototype Experiment" (HOPE) was executed as a major 2-month field experiment in Jülich, Germany, performed in April and May 2013, followed by a smaller campaign in Melpitz, Germany in September 2013. HOPE has been designed to provide a critical evaluation of the new German community atmospheric Icosahedral non-hydrostatic (ICON) model at the scale of the model simulations and further to provide information on land-surface-atmospheric boundary layer exchange, cloud and precipitation processes as well as on sub-grid variability and microphysical properties that are subject to parameterizations. HOPE focuses on the onset of clouds and precipitation in the convective atmospheric boundary layer. The paper summarizes the instrument set-ups, the intensive observation periods as well as example results from both campaigns.HOPE-Jülich instrumentation included a radio sounding station, 4 Doppler lidars, 4 Raman lidars (3, 3, and 4 of these provide temperature, water vapor, and particle backscatter data, respectively), 1 water vapour differential absorption lidar, 3 cloud radars, 5 microwave radiometers, 3 rain radars, 6 sky imagers, 99 pyranometers, and 5 Sun photometers operated in synergy at different supersites. The HOPE-Melpitz campaign combined ground-based remote sensing of aerosols and clouds with helicopter- and balloon-based in-situ observations in the atmospheric column and at the surface.HOPE provided an unprecedented collection of atmospheric dynamical, thermodynamical, and micro- and macrophysical properties of aerosols, clouds and precipitation with high spatial and temporal resolution within a cube of approximately 10 × 10 × 10 km3. HOPE data will significantly contribute to our understanding of boundary layer dynamics and the formation of clouds and precipitation. The datasets are made available through a dedicated data portal.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Troposphäre (IEK-8)

Research Program(s):

1. 243 - Tropospheric trace substances and their transformation processes (POF3-243) (POF3-243)

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