For details about any instrument deployed on the field click the links provided.
Sensor | Provider | Inventory |
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.
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Hydrometeor classification | NASA | 5 MRR Precipitation profiling.
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Radiosondes | NOAA NWS | KSNA, KFFC, KGSO, KRNK, KMHX |
UNC-Asheville | 1 (mobile) | |
Radiometers | ARM | 1 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 | ||
Pluvio | Duke | 1 OTT Pluvio2 |
NASA | 2 OTT Pluvio2 | |
Fog trailer | Duke | 1 PCASP-X2 particle counter by Droplet Measurement Technologies |
Duke | 4 Fog sensors, University of Hawaii | |
Radars | NASA | NPOL for light to heavy precipitation in liquid, mixed, and ice phase environments. S-Band Transportable Dual-Polarimetric Radar, 2.7-2.9 GHz frequency |
NOAA | NOXP: 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:
Sensor | Provider | Inventory |
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-ECONet | 6 |
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