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)实地计划。IHOP是一个大型的多机构、多研究人员的项目，重点是测量水蒸气和水蒸气的可变性。该项目的目标是增进对对流启动的了解，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。首席调查员将利用一种名为移动综合测绘系统(MIPS)的先进仪器，作为广泛的移动地面仪器组合的一部分。MIPS的功能包括风、垂直运动、温度、虚拟温度、云层特性、边界层特征和水蒸气的垂直剖面测量。首席调查员的主要目标是促进对对流的形成及其对边界和邻近大气边界层特征的依赖的了解。除了参与对流引发的实验外，首席调查员还将使用MIPS收集对其他IHOP研究人员成功至关重要的数据。最后，首席调查员将对MIPS 12通道无源微波剖面辐射计与其他遥感设备和现场探测进行彻底的比较。

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.