Urban, rural and bay boundary-layer gradient observations around Baltimore (ARM CoURAGE)
Field
Year-long ARM Mobile Facility deployment with urban, rural and Chesapeake Bay nodes, measuring how the urban boundary layer differs from its surroundings through all seasons, including low-level jets and bay breezes. Doppler lidar, soundings, eddy covariance and profilers; free ARM account needed.
Davis, K. (2025). Urban, rural and bay boundary-layer gradient observations around Baltimore (ARM CoURAGE) [Data set]. ARM Data Center. https://arm.gov/research/campaigns/amf2024courage
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Continuous Doppler lidar in Baltimore from the BSEC Urban Integrated Field Lab: vertical-velocity variance, skewness and kurtosis, VAD wind profiles, boundary-layer and cloud-base height as daily CF-NetCDF files at 15-minute resolution.
BSEC network of street-level weather stations across Baltimore: temperature, humidity, wind, rain and solar radiation as 5-minute, hourly and daily CSV files from 2023.
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Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment, 2001–02: a year-long network of energy-balance towers across urban, suburban and rural sites, with a June–July 2002 intensive period adding a wind profiler, sodar/RASS, lidar, a street-canyon tower and four SF6 tracer releases. A reference for urban roughness-sublayer turbulence and energy balance.