Utilization of the UAH Mobile Integrated Profiling System to Characterize Boundaries and Adjacent Boundary Layer Properties Associated with Convective Initiation during IHOP 2002

该项目涉及参与国际H20项目（IHOP）的实地项目。 IHOP是一个大型的多机构、多研究者项目，重点是测量水蒸气和水蒸气变化。 该项目的目标是提高对对流启动的理解，提高短期降水预报技能，并测试各种仪器测量水汽四维特征的能力。 主要调查员将使用一种称为移动的综合剖面系统的先进仪器，作为广泛的移动的地面仪器组合的一部分。 MIPS的能力包括风、垂直运动、温度、虚拟温度、云特性、边界层特性和水汽的垂直廓线测量。 首席研究员的主要目标是促进对流的启动及其对边界和邻近大气边界层特性的依赖性的理解。 除了参与对流启动的实验外，首席研究员还将使用MIPS收集对其他IHOP研究人员的成功至关重要的数据。 最后，首席研究员将对MIPS 12通道被动微波剖面辐射计与其他遥感装置和现场探测进行彻底比较。

This project involves participation in the International H20 Project (IHOP) field program. The IHOP is a large multi-agency, multi-investigator project that focuses on the measurement of water vapor and water vapor variability. The goal of this project is to improve understanding of convective initiation, increase short-term precipitation forecast skills and test the capabilities of various instruments to measure the four dimensional characteristics of water vapor. The Principal Investigator will utilize an advanced instrument known as the Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS) as part of an extensive ensemble of mobile ground-based instrumentation. The MIPS capabilities include vertical profile measurements of wind, vertical motion, temperature, virtual temperature, cloud properties, boundary layer characteristics, and water vapor. The principal objectives of the Principal Investigator are to advance understanding of convective initiation and its dependence on characteristics of boundaries and the adjacent atmospheric boundary layer. In addition to participating in experiments on convective initiation, the Principal Investigator also will use the MIPS to collect data important to the success of other IHOP researchers. Finally, the Principal Investigator will conduct thorough comparisons of the MIPS 12-channel passive microwave profiling radiometer with other remote sensing devices and in situ soundings.