| Data Platform | Mobile Upstream Rawinsondes |
| Description | The University of Washington configured a vehicle and trailer to perform as a mobile sonde-launching unit (sonde receiver provided by PNNL/PARSL group, and sondes provided by NCAR/Research Applications Program). The mobile sonde unit was deployed in the Willamette Valley in western Oregon, upstream of the Cascade Mountains. Only a single location was used for each IOP, and was chosen to be approximately upstream of Santiam Pass, according to the mean lower-tropospheric wind direction. Sondes were launched approximately every 3 h during IOPs, at the request of IMPROVE-2 PIs. |
| Location(s) | Orleans, OR, Lat: 44.5500, Lon: -123.1500, Elev: 69 m Rowland, OR, Lat: 44.2800, Lon: -123.0650, Elev: 97 m Creswell, OR, Lat: 43.9200, Lon: -123.0250, Elev: 165 m |
| Operators | Stan Rose (UW) and U.S. Naval Reservists |
| Data Format(s) | text files, nonstandard format; netcdf |
| Software | UW in-house (for text), or UW Zebra (for netcdf) |
| Data Location(s) | text: /home/disk/wrf1/improve2/mobile_sondes; netcdf: /home/disk/imp1/zeb-improve2-data/sounding/uw |