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Measurement Systems

Land Based

• Land flux stations
• 915-MHz Profiler Network
• ceilometers
• microwave radiometers
• Doppler Lidars
• NOAA Portable Cloud Observing System (NPCO)
• Scanning Doppler Radars (C-band, X-band, K-band)
• Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO)

Ship Based

• Sea going fluxes
• R/V Ronald H. Brown Profiler (915-MHz)
• ceilometers
• microwave radiometers
• NOAA Portable Cloud Observing System (NPCO)
• R/V Ronald H. Brown Doppler Precipitation Radar (C-band)

Airborne

• Various flux instrumensts
• Doppler Lidars
  • DIAL
  • ABAEL
• Airborne Microwave

Remote Sensing Retrievals (primarily surface-based)

• U, T, q, O3 Profiles
• Cloud/Precipitation Microphysics (liquid, ice)
• Turbulence Profiles
• Satellite Air-sea Fluxes
• PBL Height
• Aerosol Properties
• Surface Property Retrievals