Instrumentation and sensors

For details about any instrument deployed on the field click the links provided.

SensorProviderInventory
Rain Gauges
 
Duke University
 
44: TB03/0.2; TB03/0.1; HS305A Click for details
 
Precipitation volume and rain rate
 
Nasa-IFloods 
 
38 (Soil moisture/temperature) Click for details
 
   
Disdrometers   Duke-UCLM 
 
12 PARSIVEL (P1) 
 
Drop size distribution
 
Duke 
 
3 PARSIVEL (P2) 
 
 NASA 
 
8 PARSIVEL (P2) 
 
 NASA 
 
3 Joss and Waldvogel acoustic disdrometer (JWD); 3 additional maintained by NOAA
 
 NASA 
 
5  2-Dimensional Video Disdrometer (2DVD)
 
   
Micro-Rain Radar 
 
Duke

3 MRR Precipitation profiling. 
 

 

Hydrometeor classification
 
NASA

5 MRR  Precipitation profiling.

 

   
Radiosondes
 
NOAA NWS 
 
 KSNA, KFFC, KGSO, KRNK, KMHX
 
 UNC-Asheville1 (mobile)
   
RadiometersARM1 MWR3C
 
  2 MWR 2 channel 
   
Flux tower 
 
Duke       Sonic Anemometer CSAT3
 
Installed in 2009 at Purchase Knob 
 
 Anemometer
  Hygrometer KH20
  2 HMP45C
  HOBO T/RH
 
  Radiometer CNR1
  Rain Gauge
  Soil moisture/temperature
   
PluvioDuke 1 OTT Pluvio2
 
 NASA 2 OTT Pluvio2
   
Fog trailerDuke 1 PCASP-X2 particle counter by Droplet Measurement Technologies
 
 Duke 4 Fog sensors, University of Hawaii
 
RadarsNASANPOL for light to heavy precipitation in liquid, mixed, and ice phase environments. S-Band Transportable Dual-Polarimetric Radar, 2.7-2.9 GHz frequency
 NOAANOXP: NOAA X-POL mobile radar (more info about campaigns using NOXP)
 
   

All instruments are deployed in the IPHEx gegraphical domain as shown by the following maps. With the exception of the disdrometers, the equipment installed in the field by the Barros Group at Duke has been monitoring precipitation and atmospheric parameters continuously since at least 2009.

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Additional Information for IPHEx:

SensorProviderInventory
Rain Gauges
 
National Networks 
(NWS, EPA, NPS, USDA, NC-FWS and Econet) 
 
443
 
Stream Gauges
 
USGS 
 
129
NSF LTER Weirs
 
22
 
Flux Towers
 
Ameriflux 
 
6
 

Meteorological Stations

and Soil Moisture  
  

NOAA 
 
6
 
NC-ECONet6
 

 

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