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Aerial Assessment of Liquid in Clouds at Oliktok (Final Campaign Report)
Aerial Assessment of Liquid in Clouds at Oliktok (AALCO) Intensive Operation Period (IOP) began in October, 2016 and ended in October, 2017 at the ARM Mobile Facility-3 (AMF-3) at Oliktok Point, Alaska. The operations tested super-cooled liquid water sensors (SLWCs), leaf-wetness sensors, radiosondes, and a distributed temperature sensor (DTS) on tethered balloon system (TBS) platforms throughout the period. An auto-reeler system, a helikite, and a aerostat were tested. When conditions were optimal, the aerostat was preferred to the helikite and the auto-reeler. It was found the SLWCs had better transmission and sensitivity to relay information about the near-surface cloudy boundary layer than the leaf-wetness sensors. The DTS was also found to give useful information about the atmospheric column and deployment is condition-dependent. Results from the SLWCs and DTS are being compared with high resolution Large Eddy Simulations (LES) in the System for Atmospheric Modeling (SAM).