Data Platform PNNL Remote Sensing Laboratroy (PARSL)
Description Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy) deployed the PNNL Remote Sensing Laboratroy (PARSL) on the lee side of the Cascades during IMPROVE-2. The diverse instument collection included 94-GHz and 35-GHz vertically pointing radars, a dual wavelength LIDAR, surface meteorology and accumulated precipitation, a suite of broadband radiometers, an infrared thermometer, a Yankee Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR), a Yankee Total Sky Imager (TSI), a Radiometerics Microwave Radiometer (MWR), and a Vaisala ceilometer.
Location(s) Sisters Airport, OR, Lat: 44.3002, Lon: -121.5432, Elev: 975 m
Operators Thomas Ackerman, Kevin Widener, Jim Mather, Chuck Long
Data Format(s) NetCDF format following the ARM convention
Software Contact Jim Mather, Jim.Mather@pnl.gov
Data Location(s) ftp to ftp.pnl.gov, log in as anonymous, and cd to pub/outgoing/mather/improve2