SAIL: Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory
The SAIL campaign is a nearly two-year deployment of an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile User facility (AMF2) to understand how the atmosphere impacts water resources in the Colorado River, and why water resources are diminishing so quickly. The ARM mobile facility includes more than four dozen advanced instruments measuring precipitation, clouds,
aerosols,
winds, radiation, temperature, and humidity to the East River Watershed site near Crested Butte, Colorado. Through SAIL, atmospheric scientists will collaborate with surface and subsurface researchers to investigate
watershed
hydro-biogeochemical processes and create an atmosphere-through-bedrock integrated field laboratory at the East River.
| Keywords | ARM Infrastructure and Operations, atmosphere- surface interactions, Science with ARM Data |
|---|---|
| TYPE | Project |
Principal Investigator (PI)
Daniel Feldman
Lead Institution
Other Collaborators
Boise State University
Colorado State University
Desert Research Institute
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Irvine
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Utah
A rainbow emerged after a summer thunderstorm near the SAIL study area. The rainbow arcs over to the Taylor Park Reservoir and highlights how a holistic understanding, through atmosphere-through-bedrock studies, of the water that is managed in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) is directly impacted by how the sunlight and thermal energy warm the surface and created the thunderstorm, leading to precipitation in the atmosphere that impacts the water levels in the Reservoir. (Image credit: SAIL)