National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Integrated Sounding System (ISS)
facilitymobile / deployable observing platformIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NCAR
Description
Deployable lower-atmosphere observing system combining radiosondes, radar wind profilers (449/915/1290 MHz) with RASS, a scanning Doppler wind lidar, ceilometers, an infrared spectrometer and surface meteorology; deployable in standard, mobile (MISS) and ship-borne configurations, used in over 60 field campaigns.
Official page
https://www.eol.ucar.edu/observing_facilities/iss
Open official page (opens in a new tab)Contact
- Contact
- William Brown - wbrown@ucar.edu
Details
- Keywords
- radiosonde soundings, radar wind profiler, doppler wind lidar, radio acoustic sounding, infrared spectrometer, ship-borne system, boundary layer meteorology
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Associated entity
- NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory (site)