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Emerging Technology for Observations
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... New approaches applying coherent sources using electro-optic frequency combs and semiconductor lasers could provide compact instruments for GHG detection using frequency domain techniques. These spectroscopic techniques can generate data, which can be traceable to fundamental constants, providing reproducible and verifiable measurements.
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... , providing supplementary measurements to current capacities and non-routine measurements either at the air-ocean interface or over other difficult to reach land and ice surfaces. These emerging technologies are relatively inexpensive and can cover time and space scales with high resolution, including vertical and horizontal measurements, and sometimes with long time series.
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... balloon in 2012 following the katabatic winds from the Antarctic plateau before ascending and returning to the plateau for another pass. Bottom: Automated soundings, landing on the ice, and navigation back on shore using wind shear and layer tracking in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, in 2016.
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... Data and expanded platforms from air quality observing systems in the United States can also be leveraged, and Jim Szykman mentioned changes to the Environmental Protection Agency Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS) Network to increase the value of the measurement suite at these sites to a larger community of interest.
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... Combining eddy dissipation rates with variance provides an estimate of vertical integral length scale. He suggested some future opportunities including coupling radar and lidar for turbulence characterization through the whole BL; decomposition of drizzle and shallow marine stratocumulus; and radar chaff for entrainment studies.
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... instruments are accessible but expensive and there are atmospheric thermodynamic parameters associated with enhanced radar returns. Philip Chilson discussed RWP-improved resolution data that can be obtained with a range imaging (RIM)
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... Land surface properties include skin temperature, soil moisture, and emissivity; cloud properties include cloud cover, liquid water path, and cloud top height. Cloud liquid water profiles are also routinely observed from space.
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... In addition to the more traditional large, single satellite missions, panelists also mentioned the possible development of smaller, cheaper sensors deployed from a constellation of smaller satellites to reduce sampling error.
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