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KWAJEX
Field Campaign
Ops Center  Publications
The
Kwajalein Experiment (KWAJEX), held 23 July
- 15 September 1999, was a field observation campaign centered on Kwajalein
Atoll, Marshall Islands and sponsored by NASA in cooperation with the
U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Kwajalein Missile Range and the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration. The joint U.S.-Japan Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was launched in November 1997 and uses
a Ku-band radar and a multi-channel passive microwave radiometer to map
precipitation in the tropics. A number of physical assumptions are made
within the TRMM satellite algorithms in order to obtain rain rates from
the the satellite-measured radiances. The goals of KWAJEX were focused
on making observations to reduce uncertainty in these physical assumptions
by gathering a coordinated data set of airborne, shipborne, and ground-based
measurements within tropical open ocean precipitating clouds. This site
integrates information on the specific measurements made during the KWAJEX
field campaign and on the ongoing data processing and analysis.
September
5th, 1999, 23:29 UTC: The DC-8, visible by its contrail, passing over
a line of precipitating clouds just to the southeast of Kwajalein. |
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KWAJEX
Publications

Yuter, S. E.,
R. A. Houze, Jr., E. A. Smith, T. T.Wilheit,
and E. Zipser, 2005: Physical
characterization of tropical oceanic convection observed in KWAJEX. J.
Appl. Meteor., 44, 385-415.

Cetrone, J.,
and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2006:
Characteristics
of tropical convection over the ocean near Kwajalein. Mon.
Wea. Rev., 134,
834-853.
Web
page implementors: Bob Beaufait, Steve Bolen, Andy Brown, Sarah Godsey,
Jerry Guynes, Ian Horton, Kyoung-Wook Jin, Jason Jordan, Min-Jeong
Kim,
Colleen Leary, David Marks, Kerry Moncla, Steve Nesbitt, Wendy Parker,
Anita Rapp, Brett Schakel, Courtney Schumacher, Adam Sobel, Catherine
Spooner, Robert Schaaf, Kevin Sullivan, Wes
Adkins, Sandra Yuter.
Scientific
contacts: Professor Sandra
Yuter, KWAJEX Project Science Coordinator; Professor Robert
A. Houze, Jr.
Web contact:
Edit-Design Center, edc(at)atmos.washington.edu
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