Atmospheric Science Research Facilities

Boundary-Layer Data Facility

The Boundary-Layer Data Facility serves as an archive and quality control center for boundary layer and turbulence field programs conducted by approximately 20 universities and research institutions in eight different countries. For external users, the facility provides diagnostic reports on various instrumentation and sampling problems and provides processed data sets for various modeling groups.The facility also maintains its own numerical model of the soil-vegetation-atmospheric boundary layer which is used by more than 30 research groups and numerical weather prediction centers including the National Center for Atmospheric Research, The National Weather Service, and the European Centre for Medium Range Forecasting. The model is maintained and distributed by Michael Ek. For more information, contact Prof. Larry Mahrt or visit the Boundary-Layer Group.

The satellite data analysis facility is designed to promote the analysis of satellite data to study the Earth's atmosphere and surface, both land and ocean.  The facility maintains workstations and servers with storage devices for the analysis of large volumes of satellite data along with software for both image processing and the numerical analysis of the data. The facility also has large collections of NOAA polar orbiter and NASA research satellite data used in various research projects.  For further information, contact Prof. James A. Coakley.

Research at COAS Atmospheric Science