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SGP - Central Facility, Lamont, OK

Established

1 July 1993

Latitude

36.607322° N

Longitude

97.487643° W

Altitude

314 meters

Surface Type

Rangeland (Sandy)

Instruments

71 (0 active)

Primary Measurement Types

84 (0 active)

The central facility, located near Lamont, in north-central Oklahoma, houses the core instrumentation for the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site and is the center of operations for SGP experiments. The facility houses a wide range of in situ and remote sensing instrumentation, including a millimeter-wavelength cloud radar, micropulse lidars, microwave radiometers, a ceilometer, several radar wind profilers, and the only continuously operated Raman lidar in existence.

The central facility’s state-of-the-art instrumentation is augmented by balloon-borne atmospheric profiling, surface radiation measurements and surface latent and sensible heat flux measurements. Because of its extensive collection of in-situ and ground-based remote sensing instruments, it is an ideal site for major collaborative field projects.

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Instruments deployed at SGP - Central Facility, Lamont, OK

50rwp

Radar Wind Profiler (50 MHz)

1997-05-19 — 2006-05-04

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Backscattered radiation

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SGP - Central Facility, Lamont, OK

Instruments deployed at SGP - Central Facility, Lamont, OK

Primary Measurements collected at SGP - Central Facility, Lamont, OK

Aerosol absorption

Aerosol backscattered radiation

Aerosol concentration

Aerosol extinction

Aerosol optical depth

Aerosol optical properties

Aerosol particle size

Aerosol particle size distribution

Aerosol scattering

Atmospheric moisture

Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric temperature

Atmospheric turbulence

Backscatter depolarization ratio

Backscattered radiation

Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration

Carbon dioxide (CO2) flux

Carbon monoxide (CO) Concentration

Cloud base height

Cloud condensation nuclei

Cloud fraction

Horizontal wind

Hydrometeor Geometry

Hydrometeor Size Distribution

Hydrometeor fall velocity

Hydrometeor size

Ice Nucleating Particle (INP) Concentration

Inorganic chemical composition

Instrument monitoring non-geophysical variables

Isotope ratio

Latent heat flux

Lidar Doppler

Lidar polarization

Liquid water content

Liquid water path

Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance

Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance

Longwave narrowband brightness temperature

Longwave narrowband upwelling irradiance

Longwave spectral brightness temperature

Longwave spectral radiance

Methane concentration

Microwave narrowband brightness temperature

Navigation variables

Nitrogen oxides

Organic Material Concentration

Particle number concentration

Particle size distribution

Photosynthetically Active Radiation

Planetary boundary layer height

Precipitable water

Precipitation

Radar Doppler

Radar polarization

Radar reflectivity

Sensible heat flux

Shortwave broadband diffuse downwelling irradiance

Shortwave broadband direct normal irradiance

Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance

Shortwave broadband total net irradiance

Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance

Shortwave narrowband diffuse downwelling irradiance

Shortwave narrowband diffuse upwelling irradiance

Shortwave narrowband direct downwelling irradiance

Shortwave narrowband direct normal irradiance

Shortwave narrowband radiance

Shortwave narrowband total downwelling irradiance

Shortwave narrowband total upwelling irradiance

Shortwave spectral diffuse downwelling irradiance

Shortwave spectral direct downwelling irradiance

Shortwave spectral direct normal irradiance

Shortwave spectral radiance

Shortwave spectral total downwelling irradiance

Snow depth

Soil characteristics