Field Experience

ACT-America summer 2016, winter, fall 2017, and spring 2018 Flight Campaigns (Shreveport, LA; Lincoln, NE; Wallops, VA): Atmospheric Carbon and Transport-America for investigating spatiotemporal variability in GHG concentrations and thermodynamics.

MATERHORN-X FOG campaign, winter 2014-15: Physical processes during for formation and dissipation in mountainous terrain.

MATERHORN-X Spring campaign 2013: The Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) Program: The Second Field Experiment, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

BLAMEX-2013: Boundary layer experiment to investigate the role of terrain-induced flow features in the diurnal cycle of boundary layer depths. Innisfree village, Virigina.

CO2-MEGAPARIS 2011

A multi-lidar-based experimental investigation of the variability of the atmospheric boundary layer height in the Paris agglomeration, March 2011. Location: Inside a car (!) equipped with remote sensing and in-situ instruments.

FLUXPAT 2009

A national field campaign to investigate the 3-dimensional field of water vapor over different agricultural field near Dueren, Germany, 3 Aug- 21 Sept, 2009.

Aim: Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: monitoring, modelling and data assimilation.

COPS-2007

An international field campaign for Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (COPS) from June to August, 2007 in the region of south west Germany and eastern France Black forest.

PRINCE-2006

Precipitation Identification and tracking of convective cells, Location: Hornisgrinde (1182 m ASL) located in Black forest in south-west Germany, June 2006.

Aim: Measurement of the atmospheric temperature field a prior to the orographically induced convective activity.

BW-PLUS-2005: Location: Mettingen, Germany in September, 2005, Aim: Three-dimensional measurements of aerosol flows close to a source (livestock farm) at Mettingen, a flat terrain in Northern Germany with an eye-safe scanning aerosol lidar system together with several in situ aerosol measurement instruments for estimation of the strength of the plume emitted from the livestock farm and investigation of the plume transport in the boundary layer.

Highlights of Physics 2004

Location: Downtown Stuttgart, Germany in June, 2004.Aim: Experiment with a vertically-looking elastic-backscatter lidar (at 1064 and 532 nm) mainly for exploration of the convective boundary layer processes in different times of the day over an urban region, situated in a valley-like location. This was a part of a Science exhibition for public in Stuttgart city.