High Resolution, Active Remote Sensing of Cloud Microphysics at Summit, Greenland with Polarized Raman Lidar
General
Organisation
Department
Project start
01.01.2013
Project end
31.12.2018
Type of project
ARMAP/NSF
Project theme
Weather, climate & atmosphere
Project topic
Meteorology
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Fieldwork / Study
Fieldwork country
Greenland
Fieldwork region
Greenland, Mid-West
Fieldwork location
Geolocation is 67.0179977417, -50.69400024414
Fieldwork start
13.08.2014
Fieldwork end
22.08.2014
SAR information
Fieldwork / Study
Fieldwork country
Greenland
Fieldwork region
Greenland Ice Sheet
Fieldwork location
Geolocation is 72.57, -38.48
Fieldwork start
15.08.2014
Fieldwork end
21.08.2014
SAR information
Fieldwork / Study
Fieldwork country
Greenland
Fieldwork region
Greenland, Mid-West
Fieldwork location
Geolocation is 67.0179977417, -50.69400024414
Fieldwork start
29.05.2015
Fieldwork end
01.07.2015
SAR information
Fieldwork / Study
Fieldwork country
Greenland
Fieldwork region
Greenland Ice Sheet
Fieldwork location
Geolocation is 72.57, -38.48
Fieldwork start
01.06.2015
Fieldwork end
29.06.2015
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Project details
02.09.2020
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Science / project summary
A better understanding of Arctic cloud and aerosol properties, structure and formation is essential to understand the specific response of the Arctic in the context of global climate change. A lack of coherent high vertical and temporal resolution observations of cloud particles, aerosols moisture advection (i.e. water vapor) and thermodynamics, creates large uncertainties in current model estimates of cloud properties and inhibits our understanding of cloud radiative and precipitation impacts on the surface. As a result, current weather and climate models poorly parameterize clouds over the Arctic and more specifically over the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). A reduction in this uncertainty is particularly important above the GIS, where clouds act as sinks and sources to the ice mass balance by modulating the surface radiation budget and available precipitable water. To gain the understanding necessary to reduce this uncertainty, a new autonomous multi-wavelength, polarized Raman lidar will be developed and deployed at the NSFʼs observatory in Summit, Greenland. The new lidar observations will employ multiple wavelengths and polarizations to observe elastic and inelastic scattering from the Arctic atmosphere enabling regular retrieval of temperature, water vapor and extinction profiles. This combination of observational capability will create a coherent dataset of high-resolution thermodynamic, cloud and aerosol observations through the Arctic troposphere and lower stratosphere above Summit. Broadly, this addition to the NSF Observatory at Summit, Greenland as part of the larger Arctic Observing Network fits well within the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) implementation plan. Thus, this instrument will significantly enhance Arctic observing infrastructure and advance observations and understanding of change in the Arctic. This instrumentation and observations are the first of their kind on the GIS and will expand the existing, although modest, network of such measurements across the Arctic. This project will also provide a unique experience and educational opportunity through the combination of fieldwork and subsequent data processing for graduate students at the University of Colorado.
Title | Project start | End date | Organisation | Department | Project study region |
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NNA Track 2: PredictFest: To Build Capacity for Arctic Stakeholders in Need of Multi-Scale Predictions | 01.01.2020 | 31.12.2022 | University of Alaska | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department | |
AMAP | 01.03.2020 | 15.12.2020 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
NNA: Bridging the Atomistic Deformation Mechanisms to the Microscopic Adhesive-to-Cohesive Fracture at Ice-Metal Interfaces | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | Idaho State University | Idaho State University, dept. | |
GeoBasis-Zackenberg 2020 | 01.04.2020 | 31.03.2021 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Denmark |
Deciphering the role of sea-ice microorganisms on cloud processes in the Arctic | 01.06.2019 | 30.05.2021 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Denmark |
Integrating novel molecular techniques to disentangle the roles of climate, time, and human agency on the evolution of the Icelandic landscape | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2022 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Iceland |
Scientific Program Overview: Troposphere High latitude INhibitors to multi-scale sea ICE Predictability (THINICE) | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2021 | University of Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, dept. | |
Collaborative Research: Improving research coordination for Summit Station and the Dry-Snow Zone of Greenland | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2022 | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Improving research coordination for Summit Station and the Dry-Snow Zone of Greenland | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2022 | Washington State University | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Assessing Transport Pathways into the Arctic and Their Efficiencies | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2022 | Columbia University | Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | |
Collaborative Research: Improving research coordination for Summit Station and the Dry-Snow Zone of Greenland | 01.01.2019 | 31.12.2022 | University of New Hampshire | University of New Hampshire, Department | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Timing and Paleoceanographic Impacts of the Onset of Arctic-Baffin Bay Throughflow | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | |
Analysis to evaluate and improve model performance in the Central Arctic: Unique perspectives from autonomous platforms during MOSAiC | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2022 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Arctic (entire region) |
2019 Undergraduate Greenland Workshop | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2019 | University of Michigan | University of Michigan, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
GeoBasis | 01.04.2019 | 31.03.2020 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
ICOS atmospheric | 29.11.2017 | 08.12.2022 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC), Department of Environmental Science, Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
Polarsonde: A Meteorological Sensor To Detect Aircraft Icing Hazard | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2013 | University of Adelaide | The University of Adelaide, dept. | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Science coordination office for Summit Station/ISI Observatory and the Greenland Traverse | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2018 | University of California | University of California, Merced, dept. | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass and Energy Balance | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2017 | City University of New York | City University of New York (CUNY), dept. | |
Identifying the Origins of Summertime Arctic Cloud Condensation Nuclei Using Online Fine Aerosol Composition Measurements | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2020 | University of California | University of California, Irvine, dept. | Arctic (entire region) |
Collaborative Research: Arctic sea ice variability: Remote drivers and local processes | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | University of California | University of California, Santa Barbara, dept. | |
NNA: NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: The Integrated Characterization of Clouds, Energy, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit, Aerosol-Cloud Experiment (ICECAPS-ACE) | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | Washington State University | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Collaborative Research: Soil-Snow-Atmosphere Exchange of Mercury in the Interior Arctic Tundra | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2017 | University of Massachusetts | University of Massachusetts, Lowell, dept. | |
Collaborative Research: The Combined Influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Climate Variability | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc (AER) | Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, dept. | |
Collaborative Research-HIARC: Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic. Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems and Societies | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2019 | George Washington University | George Washington University, dept. | |
Reconstruction of climate at the Norse Settlements of Greenland over the last two millennia using organic biomarkers in lake sediments | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2019 | University of Massachusetts | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, dept. | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2017 | State University of New York | State University of New York at Stony Brook, dept. | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2017 | University of Rochester | University of Rochester, Dept | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Collaborative Research: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2018 | Washington State University | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Roles of Atmospheric Structure and Clouds on the Radiation and Precipitation Budgets at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | Washington State University | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
The role of uncertainty in waveguide perturbations on midlatitude predictability with DOWNSTREAM | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | State University of New York | State University of New York at Albany, dept. | |
Sensitivity of the mid-latitude waveguide to the dynamics and observations of Arctic tropopause-based vortices | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | University of Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, dept. | |
Impacts of distant pollution sources on microphysical transitions in Arctic clouds | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Utah | University of Utah, dept. | |
Collaborative Research: Decoding & Predicting Greenland's Surface Melt History & Future with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2017 | University of Tennessee | University of Tennessee, dept. | |
Collaborative Research: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2014 | Washington State University | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass and Energy Balance | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | City University of New York | City University of New York (CUNY), dept. | |
Collaborative Research: Decoding & Predicting Greenland's Surface Melt History & Future with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Maryland | University of Maryland College Park, dept. | |
RUI: Quantifying and Predicting the Impact of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the State of the Arctic | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2015 | United States Naval Academy | United States Naval Academy, dept. | |
North East Greenland Automated Weather Station and GPS | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2017 | University of California | University of California, Irvine, dept. | Greenland Ice Sheet |
A Glacier Dynamics and Ice-Ocean Interactions Perspective for IceBridge Science | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2016 | University of California | University of California, Irvine, dept. | Greenland, Mid-West |
Greenland AWS technology | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2018 | University of California | University of California, Irvine, dept. | Greenland, North-West |
Collection and Analysis of GEOSummit Aerosols | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2021 | University of California | University of California, Davis, dept. | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Investigation of the mechanisms that drive intraseasonal Arctic surface air temperature variability during the winter | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2020 | Penn State University | Penn State University, Department | |
Collaborative Research: The Influence of Arctic - Lower-Latitude Interactions on Weather and Climate Variability: Mechanisms, Predictability, and Prediction | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2020 | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Department | |
Collaborative Research: The Influence of Arctic - Lower-Latitude Interactions on Weather and Climate Variability: Mechanisms, Predictability, and Prediction | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2020 | National Center for Atmospheric Research | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Simulated Arctic Freshwater System in CMIP5 Models, the CESM Large Ensemble, and Forced Simulations | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | McGill University | McGill University, Dept | |
Collaborative Research: The Combined Influence of sea ice and snow cover on Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Climate Variability | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department | |
Collaborative Research: An examination of human social and cultural adaptation through archaeological and paleoclimate data from the Aleutian Islands | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2019 | Western Washington University | Western Washington University, dept. | |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass and Energy Balance | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | Rutgers University New Brunswick | Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2018 | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Dept | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Decoding & Predicting Greenland's Surface Melt History & Future with Observations, Regional Atmospheric Modeling and GCMs | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2018 | Penn State University | Penn State University, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Roles of Atmospheric Structure and Clouds on the Radiation and Precipitation Budgets at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Dept | |
Facilitating Arctic System Science using the Community Earth System Model | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2017 | National Center for Atmospheric Research | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Department | |
Collaborative Proposal: The Role of Arctic Amplification in Modifying Mid-latitude Atmospheric Circulation and Promoting Extreme Weather Events | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | Rutgers University New Brunswick | Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Refining Long-term Climate Records from the Renland Ice Cap | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2017 | Penn State University | Penn State University, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
The response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Holocene climate change: Testing ice sheet models and forcing mechanisms of ice margin change | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2015 | University at Buffalo | University at Buffalo, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
The Seasonal Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss: Mechanisms and Robustness across Models | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2015 | National Center for Atmospheric Research | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Department | |
NNA: NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: The Integrated Characterization of Clouds, Energy, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit, Aerosol-Cloud Experiment (ICECAPS-ACE) | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2020 | University of Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center | Greenland, Mid-West |
NNA: NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: The Integrated Characterization of Clouds, Energy, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit, Aerosol-Cloud Experiment (ICECAPS-ACE) | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2020 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
NNA: Remote Sensing of Arctic Sea Ice Using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College, Department | |
NNA: AON: EAGER: Closing the Water Vapor Exchange Budget Between the Ice Sheets and Free Atmosphere | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2020 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Greenland Ice Sheet |
Atmospheric Hydrocarbons at GEOSummit, Greenland, as Tracers for Climate Change, Air Pollution Transport, and Oxidation Chemistry in the Arctic | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2019 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
The Impact of the Stratosphere on Arctic Climate | 01.01.2016 | 31.12.2019 | Columbia University | Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | |
Collaborative Research: Science coordination office for Summit Station/ISI Observatory and the Greenland Traverse | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2018 | Dartmouth College | Dartmouth College, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Science coordination office for Summit Station/ISI Observatory and the Greenland Traverse | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2018 | University of New Hampshire | University of New Hampshire, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Refining Long-term Climate Records from the Renland Ice Cap | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2017 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Greenland, Mid-East |
Collaborative Research: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2018 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Proposal: The Role of Arctic Amplification in Modifying Mid-latitude Atmospheric Circulation and Promoting Extreme Weather Events | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center | |
Collaborative Research: Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) | 01.01.2014 | 31.12.2018 | University of Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Impact of Arctic Sea Ice Variability on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass and Energy Balance | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Roles of Atmospheric Structure and Clouds on the Radiation and Precipitation Budgets at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Roles of Atmospheric Structure and Clouds on the Radiation and Precipitation Budgets at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2013 | 31.12.2016 | University of Wisconsin | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center | |
Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2017 | Columbia University | Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2017 | Desert Research Institute | Desert Research Institute, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Assessing the Simulated Arctic Freshwater System in CMIP5 Models, the CESM Large Ensemble, and Forced Simulations | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | |
Collaborative Research-HIARC: Anthropogenic Heat Islands in the Arctic. Windows to the Future of the Regional Climates, Ecosystems and Societies | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2019 | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Colorado Boulder, Department | |
Collaborative Research: Continuous Records of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Deposition During the Holocene: Testing the Fidelity of New Methods for Reconstructing Atmospheric Change | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2015 | Oregon State University | Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | Greenland, Mid-West |
Collaborative Research: Continuous Records of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Deposition During the Holocene: Testing the Fidelity of New Methods for Reconstructing Atmospheric Change | 01.01.2012 | 31.12.2015 | Desert Research Institute | Desert Research Institute, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences | Greenland, Mid-West |
Unraveling the history of the Greenland Ice Sheet from its internal radiostratigraphy | 01.01.2015 | 31.12.2018 | University of Washington | School of Oceanography | |
Collaborative Research: Arctic sea ice variability: Remote drivers and local processes | 01.01.2018 | 31.12.2021 | University of Washington | School of Oceanography | |
DMI service of weather stations east Greenland 2018 | 01.08.2018 | 31.08.2018 | Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) | Arctic (entire region) | |
Snow data collection on Greenland scale | 25.02.2014 | 20.03.2014 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-West |
UV-index service | 01.03.2012 | 28.02.2022 | Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) | Research and Development | Arctic (entire region) |
GeoBasis-Zackenberg 2018 | 16.04.2018 | 01.11.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
Drivhusgas-observationer i Arktis (ObsArktis) | 31.07.2018 | 29.08.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC), Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) | 01.07.2018 | 31.07.2018 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC), Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
Evaluation of existing measurements in 2015 and 2016; new measurements of Short lived greenhouse forcers in 2017 and 2018 (EVAM-SLCF) and 2017-2019 | 01.08.2017 | 31.07.2019 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
METAPOL (Meteorological and pollutant observations in the High Arctic) | 10.08.2017 | 20.08.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
ObsArktis | 03.07.2017 | 21.08.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-East |
Arctic monitoring Assessment program | 01.01.2017 | 31.12.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
MaxDOAS | 15.04.2017 | 29.04.2017 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
Snow data collection on Greenland scale | 25.02.2014 | 20.03.2014 | Aarhus University (AU) | Arctic Research Centre (ARC) | Greenland, North-West |
Microbial atmospheric-terrestrial coupling driven by long distance transport and deposition | 11.04.2015 | 03.05.2015 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Bioscience | Greenland, North-East |
Long-range transport of particle pollution to the Arctic and physical properties of Arctic aerosols | 29.04.2015 | 22.05.2015 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
The dynamics of mercury in the Arctic atmosphere | 25.02.2016 | 15.05.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |
The cloud forming potential of atmospheric particles | 01.04.2016 | 30.04.2016 | Aarhus University (AU) | Department of Environmental Science | Greenland, North-East |