NSF AGS award 1536624 enabled us to deploy the S3 LLC SAMPLE to the Eureka, California area for the last 10 days of March, 2015. The objective of the experiment was to determine the ability of a compact and portable eye-safe aerosol lidar and motion estimation algorithms (Gale and Typhoon) to observe the horizontal distribution of aerosol and 2-component wind fields over the ocean, especially during rough sea states. This webpage will provide a summary and highlights of the field experiment.
Times on this page are given in PDT while times in the scan frames are given in UTC. You can see times given in PDT in UTC instead by hovering over them with your cursor. Temperature and humidity data are given in local maxima and minima.

Sunday, March 22nd 2015
Deployed 6:02 PM - 7:43 PM
Samoa Dunes
Conditions

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Monday, March 23rd 2015
Deployed 11:27 AM - 5:02 PM
Samoa Dunes
  • Southerly flow
  • Wind-parallel streaky
    structures

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Tuesday, March 24th 2015
Deployed 3:35 PM - 8:42 PM
Trinidad Beach
Conditions

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Wednesday, March 25th 2015
Deployed 12:05 PM - 7:40 PM
Big Lagoon County Park
Conditions

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Thursday, March 26th 2015
Deployed 3:27 PM - 5:20 PM
Samoa Dunes
Conditions

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Friday, March 27th 2015
Deployed 12:09 PM - 5:53 PM
Trinidad Beach
  • 18➙15° C/64➙59° F
  • RH 67➙60➙86%

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Saturday, March 28th 2015
Deployed 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Big Lagoon County Park
  • 16➙23➙14° C/60➙73➙57° F
  • RH 76➙55➙60%
  • NNW flow
  • Wind-parallel streaky structures
  • Shallow marine boundary
    shown in RHI

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Sunday, March 29th 2015
Deployed 3:00 PM - 11:27 PM
Big Lagoon County Park
  • 15➙18➙12° C/59➙65➙54° F
  • RH 75➙68➙88%
  • Strong northerly wind
  • Evening land breeze and
    land breeze front
  • Surf zone on right edge

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Monday, March 30th 2015
Deployed 4:29 PM - 7:43 PM
Samoa Dunes
  • 16➙14° C/61➙58° F
  • RH 75➙80%
  • Evening offshore land breeze
  • Surf sone on right edge of PPI
  • Vertical dispersion from surf
    zone in RHI

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Tuesday, March 31st 2015
Deployed 12:01 PM - 6:54 PM
Samoa Dunes
  • 16° C/61° F
  • RH 63%
  • Northwesterly flow
  • Rough ocean (8-12 ft)
  • Wind-parallel streaky structures
  • High visibility, low aerosol
    scattering

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