Cirrus Cloud Studies Using the NCAR Sabreliner as Part of Phase II FIRE

这项研究的重点是作为计划于1991年11月/12月在堪萨斯州进行的火灾第二阶段密集野外观测方案的一部分进行的一项飞机试验。拟议研究的主要平台是NCAR Sabreliner飞机，该飞机配备了辐射、微物理、空气运动和飞行水平气象传感器。新的辐射仪器将安装在Sabreliner上，以获得关于太阳辐射的光谱详细信息和更准确的宽带通量测量。这项研究的最终目的是将新的观测结果纳入不同尺度和复杂程度的卷云数值模式中，最终目的是测试用于大规模气候模式的卷云的参数化。这项研究之所以重要，是因为它解决了与全球气候变化问题相关的问题。

This research is focussed on an aircraft experiment to be carried out as part of the FIRE phase II intensive field observational program that is planned for the November/December 1991 time frame in Kansas. The primary platform for the proposed research is the NCAR Sabreliner aircraft equipped with radiation, microphysics, air motion and flight level meteorological sensors. New radiation instruments will be installed on the Sabreliner both to obtain spectrally detailed information about solar radiation and more accurate broadband flux measurements. The ultimate goal of this research is to incorporate new observational results into numerical models of cirrus cloud that vary in scale of interest and complexity with the ultimate purpose of testing parameterizations of cirrus for use in large scale climate models. This research is important because it addresses questions relevant to issues of global climate change.